When Words Stick in the Throat / When Your Tongue Is Tied. Activist and Artistic Reactions of the Art Community to the War and Political Protests Online discussion

When Words Stick in the Throat. Activist and Artistic Reactions of the Art Community to the War and Political Protests

Online discussion on May 11^th (Wednesday), 06:00 p.m.

in English, with simultaneous interpreting into Polish

A panel discussion on immediate activist and artistic reactions and engagement of the art community in response to political protests and the war. Invited artists will talk about their work and artistic statements, and practices of individuals acting to suppress Russian military aggression and resist other forms of repression and/ or terror. How can art institutions support them?

Participants:

Nikita Kadan, Olia Sosnovskaya, Maxim Tyminko

Moderator: Lena Prents

Nikita (Mykyta) Kadan

Born in Kyiv in 1982. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) in 2007. Studied monumental painting.

Works with painting, graphics and installation, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists. Member of the art group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space), founding member of Hudrada (Art Committee), a curatorial and activist collective. Lives in Kyiv.

http://nikitakadan.com/

Lena Prents

Born in Minsk, Belarus. Studied German philology in Minsk, and art history and German literature and culture at the Free University of Berlin. Worked as a curator, cultural manager and author in international culture, most recently in the Visual Arts Department of the Goethe-Institut. As curator and mediator, explores contemporary art and exhibition practice combined with socio-political discourses, history of architecture, and art and culture in Eastern Europe in socialist times. Since December 2020, art and managing director of the municipal Prater Gallery in Berlin, www.pratergalerie.de.

Olia Sosnovskaya

Artist, writer and organiser. Engages in textual, performative and visual practices, combining notions of festivity, collective choreography, affect, score and the political within post-socialist contexts and beyond. Member of the art research group Problem Collective, and Work Hard! Play Hard! task force. Doctoral candidate at the PhD-in-Practice programme, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

http://oliasosnovskaya.com/

Maxim Tyminko

Born in 1972 in Chernigov. Ukraine. Studied in Belarus and Germany. Graduate of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. Belarusian artist and curator. Co-founder of the anti-war coalition platform https://antiwarcoalition.art. In 2000, co-founded and became editor of Cultprotest.me, a platform for visual resistance to dictatorship in Belarus, now also open to Ukrainian artists.

https://maximtyminko.com/selectedworks_shrt/resources/marimba.html