Performance & art auction: Oksana Kazmina – Contemporary History of Ukraine #18
December 14 @ 15:00 - 17:00
“Contemporary History of Ukraine #18” (CHU) is an installation by Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Oksana Kazmina in the current exhibition “Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity” (until December 14, 2024). This multimedia installation is the 18th episode of CHU in which Kazmina has been rearranging her archive documentary and creative projects she has been working on collaboratively since 2015. Starting with a history of Kyiv’s underground scene, the project developed into an open collection of material that tells of crisis-ridden life in contemporary Ukraine. In this project, Kazmina is working with other people such as artists and graphic designer Uliana Bychenkova, curator Kateryna Badianova, and the Freefilmers collective, of which she is also a member.
This event also marks the end of episode 18 and the exhibition. Various elements of the installation are addressed in a live video montage. These include 13 second-hand items of clothing that Kazmina bought in different places in Ukraine. A zine introduces the typeface KORCHUVATKA/KORCHUVATYTSIA which Kazmina is currently developing in collaboration with Freefilmers and Uliana Bychenkova.
Finally, all items of clothing will be auctioned off as art objects to the audience. The proceeds will go to the projects of Freefilmers, a collective of filmmakers and artists who support people in eastern Ukraine who have been severely affected by the war in various ways.
More information at help-freefilmers.network
The event will be held in english and will be broadcast live on YouTube: Contemporary History of Ukraine #18 / Lecture, Live montage & Auction – YouTube
The event also marks the end of the exhibition ‘Land(e)scapes’, which was created as part of the Revolutionale Festival for Change 2024 and in cooperation with HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art and the Heinrich Böll Foundation Saxony.
‘Land(e)scapes’ was made possible by the financial support of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the Department of International Cooperation and the Foundation Places of German Democratic History. Thank you very much!
Event venue: HALLE 14, Spinnereistraße 7, Leipzig