[Oberlist] Fwd: FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY, self organized art practices from Ukraine--- Zagreb, Croatia

[natasa bodrozic]

FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY
Samoorganizirane umjetničke prakse Ukrajine/ Self organized art
practices from Ukraine

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Participating artists: R.E.P. group, SOSka group, Stanislav
Voliazlovsky, Alevtina Kakhidze, Anatoly Belov, Ivan Melnitchuk,
Vladislav Goldakovsky, Viktoria Begalska, Ksenia Hnyltska, Zhanna
Kadyrova, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Yurij Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva, Dmitrij
Moiseev, Lada Nakonechna, Ivan Bazak.

Kustosi/Curated by: R:E.P.kolektiv (Kiev) & Slobodne veze/Loose
Associations (Zagreb)

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Mlada umjetnost Ukrajine. Koordinate generacije./
Young art from Ukraine. Coordinates of the generation.
Otvorenje/Opening:  6.11. u 20.00
Galerija SC, Zagreb

II.
R.E.P.- Patriotizam/Patriotism
Otvorenje/Opening: 9.11. u 20.00
Galerija PM/HDLU, Zagreb
http://www.rep.tinka.cc/

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Naslov izložbe kojim se predstavljaju samoorganizirane umjetničke
prakse Ukrajine nastale tijekom i nakon Narančaste revolucije izravno
se referira na izložbu FUTURE IS NOW, održanu u Zagrebu 1999. godine.
Tada su u kustoskoj koncepciji Tihomira Milovca i Branke Stipančić
predstavljeni ključni ukrajinski umjetnici devedesetih.

Deset godina kasnije, pred nama je nova generacija umjetnika, uglavnom
rođenih u osamdesetima, koji su u nedostatku institucionalne podrške
izabrali kolektivizam kao način ostvarivanja svojih ciljeva, te javni
prostor kao mjesto intervencije. Novu umjetničku scenu koja se počela
oblikovati krajem 2004. i početkom 2005. karakterizira inzistiranje na
samoobrazovanju, zauzimanje kritičkih pozicija u odnosu na zastarjeli
sistem umjetničke edukacije i akademske prakse, kao i na novonastale
relacije određene razvojem umjetničkog tržišta, prvenstveno u Kijevu,
s Pinchuk art centrom kao njegovim središnjim mjestom.

Tijekom 2008. i početkom 2009., tijekom nekoliko studijskih putovanja
u Lavov, Odessu, Kijev i Harkov, u integraciji s lokalnim umjetnicima
i kustosima različitih generacija, nastajao je novi projekt udruge
Slobodne veze pod nazivom Linije kretanja, usmjeren ka istraživanju
kritičkih i eksperimentalnih praksi u zemljama bivšeg "istočnog
bloka". Usvajajući dokumentaristički pogled putnika, koji posjećuje
ove prostore,
pokušavajući zabilježiti barem neke od segmenata tih putovanja,
namjera nam je iscrtati jednu od mogućih mapa kretanja ka istoku,
nakon što su nam kompasi, prethodno, gotovo u pravilu pokazivali na
zapad.

Izložba se odvija na dvije lokacije, u Galeriji SC od 6 do14.11. i
Galeriji PM, Meštrovićev paviljon od 9 do 22.11. 2009.

*R.E.P. kolektiv, artist talk- Akademija likovnih umjetnosti, Ilica
85, utorak 3.11. u 19.00h

Izložbe su podržali Ministarstvo kulture RH, Europska kulturna
fondacija (ECF), Galerija SC i Galerija PM/HDLU.

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FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY
Self organized artistic practices from Ukraine

The appearance of the new generation of artists on the Ukrainian art
scene is connected with the local social and political processes in
2004 and 2005. During the Orange revolution and the events that
followed, various forms of independent collectivism and self organized
protest groups have emerged. These groups conducted public
manifestations, a form of protest which became characteristic of
Ukrainian political life in the last several years. Performative
features of the mass political rallies along with the language of
"street democracy" became one of the subjects of interest for the new
generations of artists, while the questions of solidarity and self-
organizing aspirations became an important component of their artistic
activities. Interventions within the domain of the political
demonstrations turned out to be a typical form of new artistic
practice.

In those interventions the artists were deconstructing the rhetoric of
the demonstrators, but at the same time applying the same model of
civil cooperation among them, the model that was the base of the
"orange" movements. Public outbreaks of the young artists at the end
of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, were marked by the attempt to
directly participate in the public life, by analyzing mass "democratic
rituals", by submitting the aesthetic component of the artistic
gesture to its socio- critical engagement and above all by collective
creation. (...)

from the text by Nikita Kadan, member of the R.E.P. Collective

FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY project was supported by Croatian Ministry of
Culture, European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Gallery SC, Gallery
PM/HDLU


--
nataša bodrožić
slobodne veze/loose associations
vinogradska 34
10 000 zagreb
croatia

tel: + 385 91 763 2983



-- 
nataša bodrožić
slobodne veze/loose associations
vinogradska 34
10 000 zagreb
croatia

tel: + 385 91 763 2983