[oberlist] FORGET FEAR: Opening of the Visual Culture Research Center at "Zhovten" Ciname - Solidarity Action of the 7th Berlin Biennale

[Vasyl Cherepanyn]

*FORGET FEAR*

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*Opening of the Visual Culture Research Center at “Zhovten” Cinema*

*Solidarity Action of the 7th Berlin Biennale*

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*April 26, 2012, 6 p.m.*

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*Visual Culture Research Center (26 Kostyantynivska St., “Zhovten” Cinema,
Kyiv)***



On Thursday, April 26th at 6 p.m. the Visual Culture Research Center will
open in the new premises at “Zhovten” (“October”) Cinema. The space for the
combination of art, knowledge and politics will now be located at one of
the oldest cinemas in Kyiv, whose name and history embody the idea of
visual culture as education and emancipation. The format for the
presentation of the VCRC will be the action of solidarity of the 7th Berlin
Biennale, which will open on the same day at *KunstWerke *Institute for
Contemporary Art* *(Berlin).



*"Forget Fear" *is the slogan of the 7th Berlin Biennale, curated by
Artur Żmijewski,
Polish artist and art director of the *Political Critique *magazine.
"Forget Fear" is also the name for a discussion on political engagement of
intellectuals and artists with the participation of VCRC activists and
colleagues that will take place during the VCRC opening event. The action
will also include screening of films from the Biennale *Breaking the
News *special
project.



*Participants: *Yevgenia Belorusets, Andriy Bondar, Olga Bryukhovetska,
Denys Gorbach, Dmytro Gorbachov, Lyudmyla Gordeladze, Pavlo Gudimov, Olga
Zhuk, Nikita Kadan, Yevhen Karas, Serhiy Kutniy, Oleksandr Ivashyna, Alisa
Lozhkina, Roksolana Mashkova, Andriy Mokrousov, Nadiya Parfan, Oleksandr
Roytburd, Anastasiya Riabchuk, Mykhaylo Sobutsky, Oleksandr Soloviov,
Volodymyr Chemerys, Vasyl Cherepanyn.



*Visual Culture Research Center* was founded in 2008 at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
with the aim of creating an interdisciplinary environment for the analysis
of the post-Soviet situation of Ukraine on the intersection of art,
knowledge and politics. The Center since has conducted 120 scientific
events and discussions with the participation of scientists from Ukraine
and abroad, and 20 art exhibitions. In March 2012, VCRC was turned out of
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which was the result of the university
administration's ideological censorship.



*The 7th Berlin Biennale curators team:* "The main issue in question at the
7th Berlin Biennale is the profound results produced by art. Artistic
imagination is not always ready for creating such effects. As it is in
politics, in art it is better to work as a collective than alone. That is
why we decided to propose to art institutions that deal with similar
questions to make their own research and present them within the Berlin
Biennale. We name these actions and their results “the solidarity actions”.
Instead of thinking of the competition we focus on the collaboration within
a common horizon. There is a lack of solidarity in the art world,
therefore, we take a step to change it."



*Breaking the News** *is a special project at the 7th Berlin Biennale,
which is aimed at combining the means of art and journalism. Artists and
activists from different countries create a common media platform for the
production and spreading of films dedicated to current social protests in
their countries. Films by media collectives *Mosireen* (Egypt) and *
Filmpiraten* (Germany), as well as by *Zafeiris Haiditis* (Greece), *Lukasz
Konopa *(UK), *Thomas Rafa *(Slovakia/USA), *Oleksiy Radynski
*(Ukraine), *David
Reeb* (Palestine), *David Rych* (Germany) will be screened at the VCRC
opening event. "It is not enough to make political films, films must also
be made politically."



*Visual Culture Research Center*: vcrc.org.ua**

*“Zhovten” Cinema*: zhovten-kino.kiev.ua

*7th Berlin Biennale*: berlinbiennale.de**

-- 
Vasyl Cherepanyn
PhD, Cultural Studies Department,
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Director of Visual Culture Research Center
26 Kostyantynivska St., "Zhovten" Cinema

04071 Kyiv Ukraine

http://www.vcrc.org.ua/

If you have come here to help me, then don't waste your time. But if you
have come here, because your liberation is bound up with mine, then come,
let us join in the struggle together - Australian Aborigene Activists
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