[oberlist] UA* call: Social Contract project

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http://izolyatsia.org/en/project/social-contract/social-contract-announcement/

IZOLYATSIA is pleased to announce an open call for art interventions at
the former site of the Lenin monument in Kyiv, as part of the Social
Contract project. The project curated by Kateryna Filyuk is scheduled for
June 30 – July 31, 2016 and will feature an exhibition, discursive
programme and an artistic intervention.

The destruction of the statue of Lenin in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, which
took place on December 8, 2013 during the Euromaidan protests, triggered
the symbolic Leninfall around the country. The monument’s destruction was
widely filmed, circulated and commented online. During the mass protests,
statues of Lenin around Ukraine were either toppled or damaged over the
course of a few months reaching a peak after the bloody riots in February
2014, when no less than 90 monuments were smashed down across the whole
country.

Eventually, in mid-2015, the Leninfall called into action a set of laws on
Decommunisation, banning Communist symbolic. The laws quickly proved to be
highly controversial, replacing one officially approved version of history
by another and destroying relevant art pieces in the act of thoughtless
liquidation of the Soviet remnants. IZOLYATSIA’s mission is to revisit the
socialist past of Ukraine, including its industrial heritage and Soviet
mosaics, as well as to provoke interventions into the public space, and so
we keep on insisting on the necessity of an open public discussion about
the fate of the Soviet artworks and – within a larger context – about the
community’s participation in decision-making concerning urban spaces in
Ukraine.

The fall of Lenin statue manifests the final emancipation from the
pressure of the communist past and the birth of the civil society, even
though post-communist discourse still vastly predominates in Ukraine. That
is why this vacant site holds an enormous ideological potential and is
crucial in defining national identity. Thus, an artistic intervention
could create an arena for a broad discussion within the society.

Given a very complex memory landscape in Ukraine, the art intervention
shall critically reflect on the concept of "commemorative object" and
relate to the situation and the context of the site. Sculpture,
performance or an art object shall encourage open dialogue on the notion
of commemorative objects charged with ideological and political
connotations. The artist must take into account the sensitivity of the
issue and the differing views within the community.

Application requirements:

A letter of motivation, elaborating on the artist's interest in the topic
(no more than 300 words);

A project description and a sketch with technical specification (no more
than 300 words);

Applicant’s CV.

Entries must be submitted in English in one PDF file to the email address
tetyana.filevska at izolyatsia.org with the title: "Social Contract
Application_Last Name of Applicant".

The winning project will be presented at the former site of the monument
of Lenin July 7-15, 2016.

Deadline for applications: April 30, 2016

Selected by the international jury artists will be announced May 6 on the
website www.izolyatsia.org.



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