ISOLYATSIA: ART AGAINST ARMS

pARTisan #29’2015 Foundation «IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives» was created in 2010 in Donetsk in the territory a former insulation materials factory and very soon its activities became known not only across Ukraine, but also abroad. On June, 9, 2014, the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic seized the factory and deprived the Foundation not only of space, but also […]

АNDREI KUDZINIENKA: CHALLENGING THE NEW WORLD

Аndrei Kudzinienka speaks about his idea, the project, experiments and in general about new Belarusian cinema

YULIYA VAGANOVA: MUSEUM AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVIC POSITION

Yuliya Vaganova, the deputy director in charge of exhibition work and international links, a participant of «Time Machine – Museum in 21st century» program, speaks about the political turmoil influence on the Museum’s activities, about the ways of keeping a balance between traditions and innovations and about the reaction of the Ukrainian public on the «experiments» set

NOT LEGITIMATION, BUT — IMITATION

What is happening with contemporary art in Belarus: does it use guerrilla tactics or is it becoming colonized, being transformed into local «mainstream»?

MAXIM TYMINKO: TRANSFORMATION INTO A VISUAL STEAM

Belarusian artist Maxim Tyminko left the country in the mid-1990s. In 2005 he graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (Germany), and has been living abroad since then. Now you can find him in Cologne and Amsterdam: living between several cities is an ordinary practice for contemporary Western artists. However, whenever Maxim is invited to come to Belarus, he accepts the proposal even despite of the lack of the due conditions.

MARINA NAPRUSHKINA: IT IS A PARALLEL WORLD

A year ago Marina Naprushkina, a Belarusian artist and author of the project Office for Anti-Propaganda who has been living and working in Berlin for a few years, launched a campaign Neue Nachbarschaft//Moabit. This is a volunteer initiative which works with refugees and protects their rights. Marina Naprushkina dwells on the campaign’s history, activities, outcomes and prospects

MEMORY WHICH LACKS SPACE

The performance «Chernobyl» of the independent theatre group «Kryly Halopa» («Slave’s Wings») from Brest is the first part of the project «Stories of Belarus», originally conceived as a theatrical multi-volume project with every part being dedicated to the events of the country’s contemporary history. Finally the Belarusian public was able to watch the performance, too — during the theatre-ecological festival «Pryzba»

THE COUNTRY NEEDED TWO FREE THEATRES

AKSANA HAIKO, the founder of «Kryly Halopa» theatre, actress and director, tells about how to create while «being unfree», about a challenge to «professionals», a fight against art commissions, and about a new stage of her activity

HATKA: TO FIND YOUR INSIDE

In September 2013 Uladzimir Śćerbań (Vladimir Shcherban), director of Belarus Free Theatre, mentioned very briefly in his blog after a long line of reasoning that the premises in which they had lived and worked for almost six years, better known as hatka (Note: «hatka» in the Belarusian language means «a small house»), no longer belonged to them.

REPLIKA: BELARUSSIAN ART-GENERATION Z

While the narrative of the contemporary Belarusian art of the 1990s and the 2000s is only recently being written (names are regained, facts and phenomena recalled, a struggle with state institutions against the monopolization of history and the spheres of influence is pursued), a number of exhibition-events have been held in Minsk. What are they like? What distinguishes them from one another and from their predecessors?

VOID: DANCE OF UNBEARABLE BEUTY

On February 13, 2013, within the First Belarusian Forum of Physical and Dance Theaters ‘PlaStforma-Minsk-2013’ Irina Anufrieva (Sweden/Belarus) presented dance performance ‘VOID’ (dance and choreography — Irina Anufrieva, music — Diamanda Galás, costume and light — Joanna Bodzek).

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