Event overview
Lecture and Film Screening by curator and dance historian Adrien Sina. Introduced by Georgia Perkins. Followed by a discussion with Konstantin Koval and Nataliya Tkachuk.
War | Oppression | Dystopia was first curated by Adrien Sina in 2020 as a contemporary component of his Feminine Futures exhibitions. Anticipating future tragedies, it has acquired dramatic urgency with Russia’s inhumane aggression towards Ukraine. His selection of premonitory dances in abandoned or devastated environments, have been complemented by new performances in the heat of the early waves of war, in the midst of destruction or in the in-between spaces haunting the minds of uprooted and refugee dancers.
Since Fugitive Fluctuations, 1995, Sina has focussed his exhibitions upon issues of performance, politics, dance and architecture. Special attention is given here to dances with modernist cultural heritage sites threatened by shelling or by de-Sovietisation despite their eminence in the Ukrainian collective memory.
Adrien Sina is a dance historian, curator of the exhibitions Feminine Futures: Performa Biennial New York 2009, The Consortium Dijon 2014, Museum Langmatt Baden, 2015. He has contributed to Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, 2003; Futurism, Tate Modern, 2009; Inventing Abstraction, MoMA New York, 2013; Traces du Sacré, 2008, Danser sa vie, 2011, Elles font l’Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, 2021; Women in Abstraction, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2022; The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale, 2022. Publications: Feminine Futures, 2011, Feminine Futures 2: Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams, 2024.
Konstantin Koval is a choreographer, co-author of the film UPROOTED made for UNHCR – the United Nations Refugee Agency, under the first fires of war. UPROOTED 2, his new initiative, is a series of one-minute dance films made with the artists who experience war in their daily life in Ukraine, as uprooted from their former peaceful lives as the refugees he follows through their unfamiliar environments, in the face of uncertainty and the violence of future.
Nataliya Tkachuk is a choreographer, dancer & film director from Kyiv. In her award-winning film Glimpse of Present moment / Mirror, she investigates the dark shadows haunting our consciousness and subconscious in the terrible cycle of birth and death intensified by the war. She reconnects these inner worlds to uncanny landscapes in Kiev District, Bucha, Irpin, Makarov, Odessa, Kuyalnik, and Kiev’s small opera theatre, tracing the shifts of peaceful pre-war sensations to traumatic wartime fears.
Event organised in collaboration with Georgia Perkins, a doctoral candidate in the Visual Cultures Department. (g.perkins@gold.ac.uk)
Dates & times
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| 13 Jun 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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