{"id":2097,"date":"2022-11-09T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isc.lviv.ua\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:00:16","slug":"u-yevropejskij-stolyczi-kultury-vidkryvsya-ukrayinskyj-zriz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isc.lviv.ua\/en\/u-yevropejskij-stolyczi-kultury-vidkryvsya-ukrayinskyj-zriz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abUkrainian Cross-Section\u00bb launches in European Capital of Culture!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The opening of the 5th triennial of contemporary Ukrainian art \u00abUkrainian Cross-Section\u00bb took place in Kaunas! Under the slogan UKRAINE! UNMUTED the project will speak to a foreign audience through art and performance, dialogues and discussions, words and emotions, and thus \u2014 calls to put Ukraine in unmute mode!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaunas Central Post Office. Photo: Viacheslav Polyakov<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00abUkrainian Cross-Section\u00bb started on November 4th in the 2022 European Capital of Culture \u2014 the Lithuanian city of Kaunas. Here, in the historical building of the Central Post Office of Kaunas, the Cultural Strategy Institute presented an exhibition of modern Ukrainian art, which is a topical cross-slice of what Ukrainian artists are experiencing, worrying, and working with today. The exhibition is located on two floors of the modernist building of the Post Office on the central pedestrian avenue Laisv\u0117s and presents a total of 17 art projects by 27 Ukrainian artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The starting point of the opening weekend was a performative event<\/strong>
With the help of the body and movement, in interaction with the space, material and with the audience, Vlodko Kaufman, Yuri Shtaida, Natalya Lisova, Yaryna Shumska and Volodymyr Topiy were “telling” stories about the path, about what Ukrainians are going through today, about the ability to resist and live on. In the performance, the artists explored the inner state of a person during the war \u2014 how Ukrainians live in a state of constant temporary displacement, how they continue to lead their lives, despite the internal numbness and the feeling of standing still for long months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n