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November 7 – 12, Tuesday \u2013 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Radio International presents \u201cMaidan Walk,\u201d an\u00a0audio tour by Pic Pic<\/strong>\u00a0that will begin on\u00a0Tuesday, November 7, at 14:00 near \u201cUniversytet\u201d metro station<\/strong>\u00a0and last until 15:30. \u201cMaidan. Walk\u201d is the story of Masha, a student of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In the fall semester of 2013, on the night of December 11, instead of studying for an exam in Soviet history, she spent the evening in the tent city at the center of Kyiv\u2019s Maidan revolution resisting onslaught by the police.\u00a0Single ticket price: 200\u00a0<\/strong>uah<\/strong> (for students and seniors \u2013 150\u00a0uah).<\/strong> Tickets are available online after the\u00a0registration<\/a>\u00a0or at Vagabond Cafe: 7, Skovorody Street.\u00a0Please present some form of ID.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, November 7, at 19:00<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, \u201cUFO\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(180 Antonovycha St<\/a>., Lybidska Metro) the premiere of\u00a0Play,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0a performance by\u00a0<\/strong>Valentyna<\/strong>\u00a0Petrova<\/strong>\u00a0(Ukraine) will take place. Exploring the textual frames and power relations hidden in speech,\u00a0Play<\/em>\u00a0works with expressions of intimacy, neglecting the common for the sake of equal inclusion of all participants into the realm of utterance.\u00a0Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday, November 8, at 19:00<\/strong>\u00a0there will be a\u00a0presentation of the Ukrainian translation of Judith Butler\u2019s book\u00a0Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, \u201cUFO\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>(180 Antonovycha St<\/a>., Lybidska Metro) with the editor of the Ukrainian edition\u00a0Kateryna Mishchenko,<\/strong>\u00a0translator\u00a0Yustyna Kravchuk<\/strong>\u00a0and journalist\u00a0Kateryna Sergatskova<\/strong>(Ukraine). In Frames of War Butler, one of the key figures in gender theory and contemporary philosophy, analyses Western forms of warfare exploring, in particular, the ways in which the media represent state violence. The very understanding of human life depends on this representation, as being in accordance with a certain frame it can be considered both worth and not worth living.\u00a0Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday, November 9, at 19:00<\/strong>\u00a0the screening of\u00a0\u201cThe Eleventh Year,\u201d (1928) a film by Dzyga Vertov,\u00a0<\/strong>will take place within the \u201cUkrainian Revolutionary Cinema Avant-Garde Series.\u201d\u00a0Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, November 10, at 17:00<\/strong>\u00a0in his \u201cFinal Fantasy II \u2013 21 Translations of Purpose in Japanese \u2013 \u559c\u6012\u54c0\u697d Kidoairaku (Joy-Furious-Sadness-Pleasure) At\u00a019:00 at BURSA GALLERY<\/strong>\u00a0(11-B Kostyantynivska St., metro Kontraktova Ploshcha) the opening of the\u00a0group exhibition \u201cDance, Dance, Dance\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0will take place. The image of the rave, buried in the late nineties, was recently resurrected, now farther East than East Berlin. Kyiv is proclaimed to be one of its monasteries, newly discovered by western pilgrims, together with a riot, the square, democracy and all else that lies North of the Wall. The New East, a unique politico-poetic formation of freedom and vital energy, has become a reference point for those seeking life outside the fortress of the old world.<\/p>\n Dance, Dance, Dance,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0a research exhibition on the techno-rave renaissance and its effects, will focus on the political cartography of youth cultures, the mythologization of the vast space outside the E.U., and the production of a new territory-based concept of the New East, which is attempting to grasp the former Soviet states and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, working both within its manifestations in the metropole and its local reception. Locating the self-proclaimed \u201cnew Berlins,\u201d the exhibition will take a look at the dance scene as a luminous symptom of social and political processes outside narrow definitions of Europe.<\/p>\n Participants:\u00a0<\/strong>Mishka Bochkar\u0451v (Ukraine), Maria Gorodeckaya (United Kingdom), Sergei Nikitin (Ukraine), Ihor Okuniev (Ukraine), Anna Ro\u010d\u0148ov\u00e1 (Czech Repurlic), Kirill Savchenkov (Russia), Aleksei Taruts (Russia), Vova Vorotniov (Ukraine), Yarema Malashchuk and \u00a0Roman Himey (Ukraine).<\/p>\n Curated by Serge Klymko.<\/strong><\/p>\n The exhibition will last\u00a0until December 11<\/strong>\u00a0and will be open on\u00a0Tuesday\u2013 Sunday from 12:00 until 20:00.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, November 11, at 12:00<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0BURSA GALLERY<\/strong>\u00a0(11-B Kostyantynivska St., metro Kontraktova Ploshcha) within the framework of the \u201cDance, Dance, Dance\u201d exhibition there will be\u00a0\u201cHealthy Life: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams,\u201d a music performance by Aleksei\u00a0<\/strong>Taruts<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>a Russian artist who works with performative and situational practices that utilize musical forms as means of expression, and a way to question symbolic and cultural exchange.\u00a0Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n 13:00\u201419:00\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>mocumenta<\/strong>\u201d project<\/strong>\u00a0will be presented at the\u00a0art workshop at 33 Soshenko Street.\u00a0<\/strong>Soshenko 33 participated in documenta 14 as an artist collective and alternative space. In August 2017, there was a Soshenko 33 residency at Tokonoma space in Kassel in which they participated in the \u201cTitle on the Spot\u201d project together with collectives from Kosovo, Belgium and Switzerland. These projects are collaborative practices, as well as an attempt to create a common \u201cfield\u201d between collectives and initiatives emerging out of different contexts. Participants include: Mitya Churikov, Oleksandr Dolhiy, Dobrynia Ivanov, Taras Kovach, Natalia Matsenko, Anna Sorokovaya, Alina Yakubenko, Yuriy Yefanov (Ukraine).\u00a0Admission is free.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, November 12, at 14:00<\/strong>\u00a0there will be an\u00a0audio tour by Pic Pic<\/strong>\u00a0(Ukraine) within the experimental radio workshop,\u00a0\u201cThe Case of Mendel Beilis.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0In 1911 \u2013 1913, there was a court case brought in Kyiv against Mendel Beilis, a clerk at a brick factory, for the killing of Andrei Yushchinsky, a 12-year-old boy. The accusation emphasized the ritual nature of the killing and imputed the desire to kill a Christian boy to Beilis, a Jew. This case was initiated by right-wing organizations (the Black Hundreds) and, despite experts and witnesses insisting on the absurdity of the accusation, was supported by a number of influential politicians in the Russian Empire. The tour will\u00a0start at Zhovten cinema<\/strong>\u00a0(26 Konstiantynivska St., metro Kontraktova Ploshcha).\u00a0Single ticket price: 200\u00a0<\/strong>uah<\/strong>\u00a0(for students and seniors \u2013 150 uah).<\/strong> Tickets are available online after the\u00a0registration<\/a>\u00a0or at Vagabond cafe: 7, Skovorody Street.\u00a0Please present some form of ID.<\/strong><\/p>\n 17:00<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, \u201cUFO\u201d<\/strong>(180 Antonovycha St<\/a>., Lybidska Metro) there will be a film screening of the\u00a0documentary\u00a0Parko<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>about a car park that was converted into a green, fiery, and subversive space in the heart of Athens. The event includes a talk with the author of the film, artist and activist\u00a0Clara Stella H\u00fcneke<\/strong>\u00a0(Berlin\/Athens), entitled,\u00a0\u201cFrom Parking Space to Park.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The discussion will feature encounters between continuous and symbolic protest, specifically how neighbourhood grassroot groups merge with riots.\u00a0Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n 19:00\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, \u201cUFO\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>(180 Antonovycha St<\/a>., Lybidska Metro) there will be a talk by\u00a0Ioulia Mermigka<\/strong>(Greece), a researcher and adjunct lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies in the Media Department of the University of Athens, entitled,\u00a0\u201cAn\u00a0<\/strong>Ethico<\/strong>-Aesthetic Paradigm against Nihilist Desire in the Social Field: The Greek Case and the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The lecture will apply the theory of macro and micro politics of desire, nihilist lines of flight, and the notion of cancerous Bodies Without Organs by Deleuze and Guattari in the context of modern Greek history and contemporary nihilist strains in Greek society. The talk aims to promote a dialogue on the similarities and differences between the Greek and Ukrainian cases.\u00a0Admission is free.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Organized by<\/strong>\u00a0Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv, Ukraine).<\/p>\n Institutional Partners:<\/strong>\u00a0Avtonomi Akadimia (Athens, Greece), BURSA Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine), Columbia Global Centers | Paris (France), DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Berlin, Germany), De Balie (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Depo (Istanbul, Turkey), Depot (Vienna, Austria), documenta 14 (Athens\/Kassel, Greece\/Germany), European Alternatives (Paris, France), Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin, Germany), Hromadske TV (Kyiv, Ukraine), Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna, Austria), Medusa Books (Kyiv, Ukraine), National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Center (Kyiv, Ukraine), Political Critique (Warsaw, Poland), Shedhalle (Zurich, Switzerland), Studio 14 (Athens, Greece), Transeuropa Festival 2017 (Madrid, Spain), tranzit.cz (Prague, Czech Republic).<\/p>\n Partners:<\/strong>\u00a0British Council \/ Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, ERSTE Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, International Renaissance Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 7 – 12, Tuesday \u2013 Sunday Radio International presents \u201cMaidan Walk,\u201d an\u00a0audio tour by Pic Pic\u00a0that will begin on\u00a0Tuesday, November 7, at 14:00 near \u201cUniversytet\u201d metro station\u00a0and last until 15:30. \u201cMaidan. Walk\u201d is the story of Masha, … Continue reading \n\n\n