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Виставка "Велика несподіванка".  Національний художній музей України

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Exhibition "Great surprise". National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

A word from the artists

This project is about the culture of shame; about how mechanisms of concealment work; about combining the roles of convicted and persecutor; about how we – like children – shut our eyes to remain “in the dark” and not see anything; about the construction of functional myths; about those left in the lurch; about charity as a prosthetic limb of the underdeveloped public sphere; about stupid jokes; about the severance of social ties; about spitting on the ground; about infantility; about museum babushkas; and about how people learn to not be afraid. We would also like to talk about the tuberculosis epidemic, although we were certainly not invited to participate in this project because of our understanding of this problem.

Работа "Акын" стала продолжением серии уличных перформансов, которую мы начали в 2006м году в Киеве работой "Лирник". Для выступления на Киевском фестивале перформанса мы пригласили лирника -  традиционного музыканта и сказителя. Под заунывные звуки колесной лиры он пересказывал известные акции и перформансы, в частности работы Йозефа Бойса, Марины Абрамович, Александра Бренера, Тино Сегала - таким же образом, каким лирники, столетиями путешествуя по Украине, рассказывали о героических деяниях прошлого. Выступал он на одной из центральных площадей Киева. Лирник (традиционный, народный, свой) как-бы предоставил коммуникационный канал для информации об искусстве перформанса (непривычном, космополитическом, чужом).

Давайте поговоримо про націоналізм! Між  ідеологією та ідентичністю, Kumu Art Museum,Таллінн, Естонія (рус.\англ.\ест.) 2010

Let's Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

(ru.\eng.\est.) 2010

Viktor Misiano: We are living in a time that can be characterized as the second phase of globalization. During the first phase in the 1990s, the world was rapidly integrating. Through flows of capital, information and multinational brands, diverse realities started converging towards common ways of life. However, this sparked a backlash resulting in attempts to defend local autonomy, individuality and ethnic identity. Essentially, all this was part of a single mechanism. With the global market functioning as a marketplace for local brands, a third fundamental term of our times emerged: glocal. So this was what artists, including those from the former Soviet Union, were doing at that time. On the one hand, they were learning to play by the transnational rules of the game. On the other, they were developing local brands based on local identity, individual or group poetics, and intimate subjectivity.We are now experiencing the second phase of globalization, which faces the issue of political convergence of the world. The discussion accompanying transnational economic relations calls for democratic renewal, preservation of public space, freedom of migration etc. Joining this discussion, the art world gave up on worshipping uniqueness, originality and authenticity, opening up to universalism instead.

У пошуках нового інтернаціоналізму 

Revolutionary Experimental Space  

За искусство пасть порвем!