S&T RESIDENCY: Yuliya Sorokina, “Astral Nomads. Artist’s Brotherhood: Mythopoetic Language of Central Asian Art Community”, 9 December, 2022, 7:00 PM
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S&T RESIDENCY: Jan Durina, Světlana Malinová, “Weak Season”, book launch & conversation, 28 February, 7 PM
Launch of a new book 'Weak Season' by Slovak interdisciplinary artist and musician Jan Durina, followed by a conversation with the Slavs and Tatars' current resident, Czech curator Světlana Malinová.
The event reflects on the themes of mental health, feminism, queer identity and politics, experienced within the current cultural-political situation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. “Weak Season”, published by the Museum of Arts and Design Benešov (Czech Republic), is a monograph, showing Durina's work from the past fifteen years. Malinová invited Durina to Pickle Bar as an extension of their previous collaboration - exhibition “Hours Against The Clock” currently on view at the KVOST gallery in Berlin.
Free admission. In English.
Světlana Malinová is a curator and cultural organiser based in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2022, she has been the artistic director of the Fotograf Festivaln. Together with Max Dvořák, she runs a multifunctional art space City Surfer Office in Prague.
Jan Durina is a Slovak interdisciplinary artist and musician currently based in Prague, Czech Republic. Through performance, photography, and sound Durina examines the themes of loneliness, loss, the boundaries between nature and the body, gender and identity.
Světlana Malinová’s residency and event is supported by Hope Recycling Station, made possible by the National recovery plan, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic.
SLURS:S&T RESIDENCY: Natálie Kubíková, “Weirdos Attract Weirdos”, Relais Culture Europe, Paris, November 14, 6:00 PM - 9 PM.
“Weirdos Attract Weirdos: The contemporary appropriation of female queer slurring and its historical controversy”.
Did queer women adopted verbal slurs and made them into terms outside the binary language? What are the possible co-optations of female queer linguistic slang in the present? Can we find any etymological development of today's swear words as possible relevant terms of the slang nowadays? Vulva, bull and hermaphrodite: The etymology of DYKE slur in the optics of the present. Updating today's female queer slang's vocabulary.
Words steal or give power. If words hurt, words also heal. We couldn't help but notice a certain ambivalence that lesbian labels carry for different "types". How have we dealt with the adoption of name-calling, and do adopted slurs help us regain power and control? And what is there to control at all? The etymological development of today's swear words and the possible addition of words that would fit into contemporary lesbian discourse. Faggot, tranny, dyke, stud: The reclaiming of the phenomenon of lesbian and queer slang as a metaphor for the maintaining of a community of queer women in Paris.
Drawing by Ella C Bernard.
Relais Culture Europe, 132 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, 75010 Paris, France. Free admission.
Natálie Kubíková is an independent curator based in Paris and Prague. She is a director and founder of Prague based gallery and residency program, Garage Gallery. Her underlying curatorial practice stems from an interest within reflections on social collectives such as family, neighbourhoods, relationships, friendships, cultural practices and stereotypes.
Natálie Kubíková residency and event is supported by Hope Recycling Station, made possible by the National recovery plan, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic.
S&T RESIDENCY: Anna Dziapshipa, Nona Markarian “Self-Portrait along the borderline”, Screening and conversation, October 24, 2023, 7:00 PM
“Self-Portrait along the borderline”, a movie by Tbilisi-based artist Anna Dziapshipa, followed by a conversation with the curator in residency Nona Markarian.
In Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, Anna returns to the Abkhazian family home built by her grandfather, located in unrecognised country on the border of the Black Sea: Abkhazia. A place normally inaccessible for Georgians because of the ethnic conflict that happened between Georgia and Abkhazia back in 1993. Combining voice, archive, and recent footage, the film examines a lost and split identity stuck between the margins.
"Self-portrait Along the Borderline," premiered at Visions du Reel in April 2023, where it received the prestigious Jury Prize for Best Medium Length Film. German premiere took place at DOKleipzig on October 10, 2023.
Director, Camera, Sound recording: Anna Dziapshipa
Editor: Eka Tsotsoria
Composer: Nika Paniashvili
Sound designer: Paata Godziashvili
Color Correction: Nodar Nozadze
Producer: Anna Dziapshipa, Sakdoc Film
Credits: a production of Sakdoc Film
In co-production with: Murman Original Pictures LLC
With the support of: Georgian National Film Center, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Heinrich Boell Foundation, South Caucasus Regional Office
Free admission.
Anna Dziapshipa, born in 1982 and based in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a filmmaker and a producer specializing in documentary film. With a background in art history, film production, and cultural management, Anna explores themes of memory, identity, and the transformation of physical borders.
Nona Markarian is a Tbilisi-based curator and cultural producer. Currently, her research is dedicated to the Black Sea region, where she explores its post-socialist heritage and the intricate political and cultural complexities it entails.
Nona Markarian’s residency at Slavs and Tatars and event is supported by ifa.
S&T RESIDENCY: Alex Fisher and Yevheniia Moliar, “Triangulating Shevchenko”, 19 August, 2023, 7:00 PM
“Triangulating Shevchenko” is a panel discussion between Alex Fisher and Yevheniia Moliar, both current residents at Slavs and Tatars.
The discussion considers distinct representations of the famous Ukrainian poet and national figure Taras Shevchenko, focusing on a painting by the Georgian visual artist Andro Wekua and monuments by Ivan Kavaleridze, a Soviet Ukrainian creative polymath.
The discussion will explore ‘triangulation’ as a method for reckoning with the poet’s legacy, and, by extension, that of cultural and national icons whose likenesses have been replicated in different artistic styles. The method calls for ‘locating’ a subject by determining its relation to multiple reference points with known positions.
Fisher will analyze Wekua’s painting named after a ship titled for Shevchenko and reflect on how it has assumed new meaning against the backdrop of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moliar will address the expansive practice of Kavaleridze, who created monuments that combine Constructivist and Cubist elements in addition to directing films.
Free admission.
Alex Fisher is a writer and curator from Buffalo, New York, USA. His research focuses on legacy (re)formation and mutual associations of natural, built, and political environments.
Yevheniia Moliar is an art historian from Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research focuses on the cultural heritage of the Soviet period, with concentrations on monumental art and local lore museums.
Alex Fisher’s residency is supported by Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Yevheniia Moliar’s residency is supported by the fellowship program “Weltoffenes Berlin” by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Yevheniia Moliar’s residency is supported by the fellowship program “Weltoffenes Berlin” by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.