On Art and Resistance in Ukraine
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Ukraine 2020, 74 mins
In order to counter and to question the increasing fatigue and apathy which can be observed in Germany and Western Europe concerning the topic of the Russian war in Ukraine we invited Ukrainian artists, curators, and art historians to share their knowledge and work. All in all, three events will center around topics such as the role of moving images in times of war, recent developments in Ukrainian contemporary art, and decolonial approaches to this field.
We hope to enable a dialog about these pressing topics at Universität Hamburg. Since epistemic violence is one of the mechanisms of imperialist and colonial power and warfare, true solidarity and resistance require attentive listening to the oppressed and continuous support in their attempts in regaining their own subjectivity.
Therefore, the events we have organised are an attempt in collective action to reflect on the blind spots and myths that can be found in Western contexts regarding contemporary Ukrainian art as well as art historiography – past and present – in the face of the Russian full-scale invasion.
Contact for Universität Hamburg: Petra Lange-Berndt, Department of History of Art, and Anja Tippner, Institute of Slavic Studies
Organisation: Natalya Stupka / Denis Uhreniuk (Hamburg / Lviv / Kyiv. Students of Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg
Moderation: Mariia Vorotilina (Kampnagel Hamburg / Kyiv)
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Iryna Tsilyk (Kyiv)
In the multiple award-winning Sundance Film Festival movie The Earth Is Blue as an Orange an Ukrainian family documents their life under siege, and a professional filmmaker is following along.
Iryna Tsilyk, a writer and filmmaker from Kyiv, Ukraine, has directed several short fiction and documentary films. For her debut multiple award-winning full-length documentary The Earth Is Blue As an Orange she received among other things the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2020. Rock. Paper. Grenade, her first full-length fiction movie will be premiered this autumn at the Warsaw film festival. Iryna is a member of the artistic team of the Invisible Battalion, a global advocacy project dedicated to researching and documenting the participation of Ukrainian women in the war against the Russian army.
Mariia Vorotilina, Kyiv, Ukraine / Hamburg, Germany, studied social sciences at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since October 2018 she has been part of the communication team at Kampnagel Hamburg and has been curating the :::VOICES:::Ukraine programme, a project of Alliance of International Production Houses.
Moderated by Mariia Vorotilina, Kampnagel Hamburg
Q&A with the director will be available also on Zoom starting at 8:15 pm: Zoom link https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/65358557634?pwd=cFRjRjZwWmJRdG8yV0o1Y1dwWGFTdz09
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