Art in the Shadow of War in Ukraine
Art & Protest
Vasyl Cherepanyn will join us for a conversation about the cultural politics of art institutions in Ukrainian society from the Maidan revolution to the current full-scale invasion of the country. He will analyze the cultural and political context of Ukraine during the war, providing a snapshot of the field since the Maidan revolution followed by the Russian occupation of Crimea and Donbas in 2014, up to the current Russian invasion. The talk focuses on the functioning of art institutions under the conditions of war and occupation, connecting symbolic and real violence to their influence on cultural processes in Ukrainian society and beyond. This talk traces how artistic, academic, and political antagonisms have developed from the perspective of a civically engaged cultural institution.
Vasyl Cherepanyn is Head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC, Kyiv). He holds a PhD in philosophy (aesthetics) and has been lecturing at University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), University of Helsinki, Free University of Berlin, Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, University of Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Political Critique in Warsaw, Greifswald University. He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He coedited Guidebook of The Kyiv International (Medusa Books, 2018) and ‘68 NOW (Archive Books, 2019) and curated The European International (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam) and Hybrid Peace (Stroom, The Hague) projects.
Sponsored by Beinecke Library, Postwar Culture Working Group, and Whitney Humanities Center