Workshop: Cultural Frontline as a Form of Resistance in Ukraine

  • Workshop: Cultural Frontline as a Form of Resistance in Ukraine

We invite you to the workshop with Maria Vorotilina to "Sunflower” Solidary Community Center.

In the wake of the war of Russia against Ukraine, the gaps in understanding of “Eastern”-“Western” European relations became more visible. Neocolonial gaze of the “West” towards “Eastern” Europe has shaped the patterns that include, but are not limited to, generalization of cultures and experiences of people living within the region, resource depletion of lands, exploitation of migrant workers, superiority of academia and knowledge production. Art produced in the “West” is also not liberated from this gaze, reproducing neocolonial patterns and reinforcing them.

During the lecture on Thrusday 22.09, we will reflect on the imaginations expressed in “Western” art towards “Eastern Europe'' and which patterns such imaginations reinforce. On Friday 23.09, during the workshop we will take a look at the decolonial art that emerged in Ukraine over the past years and discuss the potential of such resistance.
 

Mariia Vorotilina is a curator and activist from Ukraine, currently living in Hamburg. Her interests include performing and visual arts from queerfeminist and decolonial perspectives, "Eastern Europe'' as an invented concept and western gaze on “Eastern Europe”.
 

Other archival events from that cycle:

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18:00 Premiere SONIAKH digest MUSEUM on Pańska Street
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17:00 Meeting Oberih – book presentation “Sunflower” Solidary Community Center MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Exodus From the Post-Soviet ConditionFilm screenings and lecture MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
17:00 Discussion Strategies of speaking about Roma identityScreening and discussion MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
19:00 Meeting FRIEZE x MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW: Forms of ResistanceA conversation on saving Ukrainian art and culture MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
17:00 Book presentation Queer Ukraine: An Anthology of LGBTQI+ Voices During Wartime MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Why Is This Happening? Ukrainian war-related artLecture by Svitlana Libet MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
18:00 Event Ukrainian cultural institutions during the wartime. Dnipro experienceLecture by Iryna Polikarchuk MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw
18:00 Film screening Solidarity evening: Palestine Film screening and workshops MUSEUM on Pańska Street
Pańska 3 , Warsaw