Almaty/KZ, Graz/AT, Kharkiv/UA, Tbilisi/GE, Warsaw/PL
Cultural Landscapes in Flux: The Artistic Responses to War and Colonialism, online discussion
Warsaw/PL
Centrum Społeczności Romskiej
The Subtle Influence of Culture: Mechanisms of Border Control. Presentation and discussion
Centrum Społeczności Romskiej, Puławska 39/85, Warsaw
Poznan/PL
Pradmova festival
"Archive of contemporary art as a tool for cultural activism" public discussion in frames of Pradmova festival
Al. Niepodległości 4, 61-874 Poznań hall В
Berlin/DE
ABA
From War to War: Illustration and Militarization of Visual Space in Belarus public lecture by Uladzimir Hramovich / BY
UQBAR project space, Schwedenstraße 16, 13357 Wedding, Berlin
Karlsruhe/DE
ZKM
SENSE OF SAFETY @ ZKM. A Bridge of Solidarity with the YermilovCentre in Kharkiv
ZKM, Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Museum balcony
Amsterdam/NL, Kharkiv/UA
European Cultural Foundation / The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) / YermilovCentre
DocTalk 'Dear Beautiful Beloved' by Juri Rechinsky
De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam, YermilovCentre, Svobody Square, 4, Kharkiv
Białystok/PL
Gallery Arsenal
Are you here with us? #3
Gallery Arsenal, ul. Adama Mickiewicza 2, Białystok
Poznan / Kharkiv/PL/UA
Domie / YermilovCentre
Echoes of Shelters | Hybrid Performative Walk with Kharkiv
Poznań: CK Zamek, Święty Marcin 80-82 / Kharkiv: YermilovCentre, Svobody Square, 4
Berlin, Potsdam/DE
Schlosslichtspiele
Radio bridge "Sense of safety"
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Białystok/PL
Gallery Arsenal
Are you here with us? #2
Gallery Arsenal, ul. Adama Mickiewicza 2, Białystok
Warsaw/PL
Fundacja W Stronę Dialogu
Romani AFU soldiers rescue Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russians: Exhibition opening and public program
Fundacja W Stronę Dialogu and Centrum Społeczności Romskiej, ul. Skrzetuskiego 36a, 02-665 Warszawa
Karlsruhe/DE
ZKM
SENSE OF SAFETY @ ZKM. Opening & Concert featuring FO SHO
ZKM, Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Museum balcony, Media theatre
Tbilisi/GE
Bouillon Group
Let me show you something beautiful: Ethics and esthetics in "war photography" in Ukraine and Georgia
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum M. Kostava 14., Hotel "Stamba", D block, Second floor.
Berlin/DE
Sergey Bratkov / Eleonora Frolova
How to survive: Metacosmia / YermilovCentre
Charkiw-Park, Rothenburgstraße 33, 12165 Berlin, Germany
Leipzig/DE
Revolutionale festival / Leipzig Festival of Lights
Safety as Collective Practice, screening program in frames of Revolutionale Festival
Ringcafé Roßplatz 8, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Białystok/PL
Gallery Arsenal
Are you here with us? / Czy jesteśce tu z nami?
Gallery Arsenal, ul. Adama Mickiewicza 2, Białystok
Tbilisi/GE
Bouillon Group
"Let me show you something beautiful": Pop-up exhibition of Ukrainian photographers
on the opposite street of the Georgian parliament
Amsterdam/NL
THE VOID
Hybrid event and streaming from the THE VOID studio in frames of Bridges of Solidarity
Stuttgart/DE
Musik der Jahrhunderte
Audiovisual performance "Rehearsal of the Victory Day Gig # 9"
Musik der Jahrhunderte, Siemensstraße 13, 70469 Stuttgart
Düsseldorf/DE
Atelier Helmut Schweizer
Screening of the film "Civilians. Invasion" by Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi
Atelier Helmut Schweizer, Lierenfelder Straße 39, Düsseldorf
Graz, Austria/AT
ZIEGEL. Atelier Gemeinschaft ukrainischer Künstler:innen
CURATOR'S TALK
ZIEGEL. Atelier Gemeinschaft ukrainischer Künstler:innen, Strauchergasse 6, Graz, Austria 8020
Berlin/DE
nGbk
From soil to solidarity
nGbk, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 1st floor (access via escalator), 10178 Berlin
Kharkiv/UA
YermilovCenter
Performance "Digestion"
YermilovCenter, Svobody Square, 4, Kharkiv
Ivano-Frankivsk/UA
Asortymentna kimnata
Playing with Safety: No duality, only duality
Asortymentna kimnata, Sichovyh Striltsiv 15, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Krakow/PL
UKRAINATV
Hybrid event and streaming from the UKRAINATV studio in frames of Bridges of Solidarity
Karlsruhe/DE
Schlosslichtspiele
Sense of Safety on the Antiwar Day
Schloßplatz, Karlsruhe
Kharkiv/UA
YermilovCenter
Core exhibition "Sense of safety": Curatorial excursion
YermilovCenter, Svobody Square, 4, Kharkiv
Kharkiv/UA
YermilovCenter
"How can the Analog Exhibition Space be combined with the Digital World?" A lecture by Thomas Hirschhorn
YermilovCenter, Svobody Square, 4, Kharkiv
/US
Maenad Collective, New York
SOVEREIGNTY REIMAGINED
artists
Videoart exhibit in solidarity with Ukraine
*Sovereignty, many political philosophers argue, is an ‘ambiguous concept’; it is the foundation and source of authority, an instrument and argument in international relations, a legal entity, a technology, a normative code, an artifact, an expression of the popular will, the foundation of the modern state, a territorially defined entity with final decision-making power, and an extramoral
Ariella Azoulay
Curatorial
Videoart exhibit in solidarity with Ukraine
Sovereignty, many political philosophers argue, is an ‘ambiguous concept’; it is the foundation and source of authority, an instrument and argument in international relations, a legal entity, a technology, a normative code, an artifact, an expression of the popular will, the foundation of the modern state, a territorially defined entity with final decision-making power, and an extramoral and extra procedural pole”.
Ariella Azoulay
Working closely with New York based co-curator and moving image artist Alex Faoro, antiwarcoalition.art (The International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine) has organized this special exhibit dedicated to the investigation of sovereignty. After organizing more than twenty events throughout Europe since its inception in early 2022 during the outset of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the coalition now presents its first North American show devoted to a deep study of this destructive object.
Sovereignty Reimagined exhibition invites audiences to consider a series of urgent questions: What is sovereignty? What can be learned from deconstructing and reconfiguring this multifaceted and often contradictory term? And how can this process help us better understand its limitations and potentialities?
Sovereignty has been enshrined as a transcendental condition of contemporary politics, self-rule and ostensible peace-building efforts in the world. However, at the same time, it has also been invoked to justify war, colonialism, irredentism, statecraft and foreign intervention, and to vindicate subsequent dispossession and humanitarian crises. In many ways, it is an ideology that holds state conflict to be the primary and rightful agent of historical change. For these reasons, it seems imperative to problematize sovereignty; not as a general concept for virtuous autonomy –– that which is scarcely realized –– but rather as an amorphous legal, political and rhetorical code that ensnares vast populations in the thinly veiled cross-hairs of imperialism, patriarchy, authoritarianism, oppression, violence and coercion.
In her book, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Ariella Azoulay introduces the important distinction between Imperial Sovereignty - described above - and Worldly Sovereignty, “which refers to the persisting and repressed forms and formations of being in the world… [a practice] that consists of care of the common world in which one’s place among others is part of the world’s texture”. It is a process born out of compassionate and constructive world-building and life-affirming convictions which seek to actively unlearn the stratifying and destructive tendencies of Imperial Sovereignty; those which are deeply imbricated within normative global, political, social and historical structures.
Drawing inspiration from Azoulay’s elucidating text, this presentation of antiwarcoalition.art navigates the precarious threshold between these modes of being-in-the-world. Employing a wide variety of technical, conceptual and aesthetic approaches - including the use of photography, illustration, animation, graphic design, performance, found footage and personal materials - the participating artists engage in a collective process of analyzing, circumscribing, inverting and reimagining the many violent dynamics that constitute imperial sovereignty. Focusing on related subjects like trauma, interborder conflicts, demilitarization, ideological warfare, historical revisionism, stateless aspirations and the politics of memory (among other matters), the exhibit offers a critical and impassioned response to the problematic structures that continue to define and delimit our understanding of contemporary world events, their mediated relationship to the past, and their latent utopic potentialities for the future.
Curatorial group
Alex Faoro, Maxim Tyminko, Aleksander Komarov
Organizers
Antiwarcoalaition.artand Maenad Collective