Join us for “THE HUMANITY DIALOGUES: #4 RAPID RESPONSE: SOLIDARITY OF ARTISTS IN THE TIME OF WAR: UKRAINE NOW!”
Featuring:
Olga Kopenkina, Yulia Krivich, Kuba Szreder, and Asia Tsisar
Moderated by Marta Kuzma, Professor of Art at and the former Dean of the Yale School of Art
Register (zoom): https://bit.ly/YaleREEES-March22
The fourth edition of The Humanity Dialogues includes the participation of artists, researchers, and curators from Ukraine, Poland and Belarus—Olga Kopenkina, Yulia Krivich, Kuba Szreder, and Asia Tsisar who will share the modes of agency and action that have emerged across artist networks in Central-Eastern Europe as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Amid the military struggle for democratic self-determination and an escalating humanitarian crisis, not witnessed in Europe since the second World War, what does this international solidarity of artists and cultural workers entail? What kind of organizational formats do these initiatives assume? How are existing models of artistic interdependency altered, ruptured, or einforced in the face of military aggression, war crimes, and the displacement of over two million people? How do the roles of existing cultural or art institutions change in the context of war and the dissolution of an open and tolerant civil society? The speakers will discuss these and other topics, referring to the emergent artistic practices, such as activities of the Sunflower House of Culture (a bottom-up initiative affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) that provides direct aid to Ukrainian refugees, an international bureau devoted to raising the awareness of the decolonial history of the region, and artist initiatives working within the opposition in Belarus—in an effort to reevaluate and to rethink the role of art and artists in the time of war.
Moderated by MARTA KUZMA and MARIANNE HIRSCH
Marta Kuzma is a Professor of Art at and the former Dean of the Yale School of Art. She is also the former Chancellor of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. Kuzma arrived in Kyiv in 1990 to found the Soros Center for Contemporary Art where she had been director through 2000. Her curatorial and academic practice centers around art’s position within the larger economic, social, and political landscape as pursued in her postgraduate research in aesthetics and art theory from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London.
Marianne Hirsch is Co-Director of the Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair and the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Sexuality and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. Her books include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997); The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012); Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020), both co-authored with Leo Spitzer; and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (2019). She is one of the founders of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, as well as a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This event is introduced by MOLLY BRUNSON, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of the History of Art and Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
This series is organized and supported by REEES: The Yale Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program at the Yale MacMillan Center
Art Design by: Milo Bonacci, Yale MFA ’21