Here is the programme of events in Tartu on 7-8 November. The discussions on November 7 will be available online! Follow the announcements at the event and on CSI resources!
U || November 7
Discussion programme
Tartu 2024 Office, AoS Hall
The discussion would be more institutions-driven, focused on the risks both for the teams and for the funds. Ukrainian participants may tell rather about war experience whereas other participants may also tell about other challenges, including underfinancing and deprioritizing, but also the impact of heat waves on cultural tourism, climate refugees, and other risks in the future.
- Speakers: Yuliya Vaganova (Ukraine), Sirje Helme (Estonia), Daphne Tolis (Canada / Greece).
- Moderator Oksana Forostyna (Ukraine).
Does it become a destiny for a culture if a society is going through hardship, violence and life or death choices on a daily basis? Is it inevitable that survival became the one and only focus of that culture? Is it relevant to tell other stories? Is it moral? Are those other stories welcomed from outside, especially, if the drama is not that obvious: the survival of small languages or ethnic groups?
- Speakers: Oksana Dovgopolova (Ukraine), Berk Vaher (Estonia), Tile von Damm (Austria / Germany).
- Moderator Oksana Forostyna (Ukraine).
Almost all “big” cultures are in fact post-imperial, the beneficiaries of the age of empires and maritime powers. The less lucky ones had to prove themselves, and still have. A country may be big in size, and even have a big economy, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a stronger voice or a sincere public interest. However, there is a sad loophole to get to the cultural arena: a war (or other tragedy). (Balkan artists and writers may tell a thing or two about that.) At the same time, the power of money enables autocracies and kleptocracies to pay their way into the art and intellectual world.
- Speakers: Anastasiya Volkova (Ukraine), Michael Cole (Estonia), Carl Henrik Fredriksson (Sweden / Austria).
- Moderator Oksana Forostyna (Ukraine).
Art part
Klubi Gutenberg / Aparaaditehas
«Maze Without a Minotaur is a journey fragmented by reflections, stories, and testimonies of Russian crimes against humanity. Family photos, a safety thread, a care-full net, and a fundamental question are laid bare. The ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur symbolizes an ongoing national violence perpetrated against the people of Ukraine. As long as the Minotaur keeps committing violence in my home, I will lead you through his labyrinth here in Tartu», — says Mariia Bakalo (Ukraine) about her experimental choreography performance.
This narrative draws the audience into the heart of the Ukrainian experience. The stories of past and present loss, despair, dreams, and perseverance are brought to light through the shared experience of roaming in the Labyrinth. Although not the most conspicuous driving force of the work, love dominates over criticism, provocation, and denunciation.
U || November 8
Presentations & talks
AoS Hall, Tartu 2024 Office
The Ukrainian Cross-Section online platform represents Ukrainian art based on the triennial of Ukrainian contemporary art Ukrainian Cross-Section. It is a collection of information about 5 editions of the project over 15 years in various European cities: Lublin 2010, 2013, Wroclaw 2016, Lviv 2019, Kaunas 2022. The resource contains exhibition concepts from different years, information about the artists who participated in the project and their works, and accompanying texts and catalogs.
- Speakers: Lidiya Savchenko-Duda (Ukraine), Yaryna Shumska (Ukraine), Krzysztof Maj / Wroclaw ECoC 2016 (Poland, online), Monika Inčerytė / Kaunas ECoC 2022 (Lithuania, online), Mariia Artemiuk-Kozińska / Lublin ECoC 2029 (Poland, online), Yuliia Khomchyn / Lviv City Candidate ECoC 2030 (Ukraine).
- Moderator Oksana Forostyna (Ukraine).
The book UKRAINE! UNMUTED intends to open up Ukrainian culture to foreigners, to ruin the stereotypes about it. Some of the text authors are: Olena Apchel, Kateryna Botanova, Mykola Riabchuk, Vitaliy Portnykov, Zoia Zvyniatskivska, as well as Yurko Vovkohon — cultural manager and the military of the Ukrainian army, thinking about art and war as a «highly concentrated life» and how do people of culture being on war can convey this experience to others. The curator of the publication is translator, publisher, and author Oksana Forostyna. The texts are translated into Estonian by Anna Verschik, Margus Lattik (Mathura), and Ilona Martson.
- Speakers: Yurko Vovkohon (Ukraine), Anna Verschik (Estonia), Margus Lattik (Estonia).
- Moderator Oksana Forostyna (Ukraine).
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Project UKRAINE! UNMUTED is a part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 programme and also Bad Ischl ECoC 2024 / Salzkammergut 2024 programme.
You can watch the discussion stream program on Cultural Strategy Institute facebook and on CSI YouTube-channel, partners’ pages, and at the media resources Delfi, UkraineWorld.
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