The Intersectorial Festival of Contemporary Art of Ukraine and Spain: “RENAISSANCE” is a joint initiative of the CultUcrania platform, the French Institute, and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), participating through the Vice-Rectorate of Art, Science, Technology, and Society and the Faculty of Fine Arts, thanks to the University-Refuge Action Plan of the Ministry of Universities.
The main objective of this project is to provide cultural and psychological support through intercultural dialogue between young artists from Spain and Ukraine, with awareness-raising activities among various sectors of the university community regarding aspects related to the Ukraine crisis. Nature, ecocide, humanity, life and death cycles, crises, paths, perspectives, destruction, regeneration… are themes to be explored.
EXHIBITION
“Altered landscapes: art, war, and ecology project”.
From November 17th, 2023 to January 19th, 2024
Space n-1, UPV General Library (building 4L, first floor). See map
Inauguration: Friday, November 17 at 1:00 p.m.
No borders can save us from the ecological crisis. This means that overcoming this crisis must be shared. The russian war in Ukraine accelerated and worsened these processes. We should use every opportunity to raise awareness, to dialogue about a common future. Art becomes a platform where artists invite us to think about what is happening around us. Pay attention to our habits, our cultural patterns––whether they are constructive. This project cannot solve global problems on its own, but it can awaken an individual viewer, have a dialogue with him or her about the environment. To remind that everything is connected with everything. That there is no more time to observe––it is time to act.
Curators :Katya Taylor, Laura Silvestre and Miquel Ángel Herrero-Cortell
Artists: Sofia Melnyk, Kateryna Pokora, Ruslana Klyuchko, Carmelo Gabaldon, Roser Domingo & Jorge Dabalina, Marta Flisykowska, Oksana Udovyk & Ruth M-Domenech and Ivan Tsidylo
+ Performance ReincarNation “Frozen Catastrophe”
Author and project director Vikhorst, with the collaboration of Álvaro Torrones, along with students from the Performance course in the Fine Arts degree at UPV, under the guidance of theater director Chris Baldwin, will create a verbal performance based on the diaries of Ukrainians about the terrorist attack.
CONFERENCE
“Trauma, Art, Recovery. Ukrainian Context.”
From November 17th from 10.30 to 12.30 a.m.
Salón de actos de Rectorado (building 3A, first floor).
Speakers:
- Miguel Angel Herrero – Vice-Dean of International Relations, UPV Art Faculty
- Kateryna Taylor – curator of the residency, PORT.AGENCY
- Chris Baldwin – project mentor, curator of performance and round tables. Performance director, curator and writer
- Ivetta Delikatna – project mentor and curator of the ecocide communication campaign in Ukraine, ECOMM
- Adrien Sina – project mentor, curator of WOMEN’S FUTURES: UKRAINE – War | Oppression | Dystopia’
- Vikhorst – author and director of the project’s documentary theater performance ReincarNation
