Exhibition: Oct 3 - 26, 2014

Komentatorki Festiwal

Women Commentators FESTIVAL

KRÓLIKARNIA, XAWERY DUNIKOWSKI MUSEUM OF SCULPTURE, DIVISION OF NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW, WARSAW (PL)

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation is proud to present the second edition of Women Commentators. This year we invited female artists from Ukraine and Russia to Warsaw. At a moment when in many spheres of life a dialogue between Russia and Ukraine doesn?t seem possible, there is an urgency to build a platform for a dialogue between Ukrainian and Russian cultural activists and researchers and hear their testimonies of the war. Due to the historical background, Poland seems the proper environment for debate. By organizing this festival and inviting selected artists to Warsaw we are really keen to create another dimension for intellectual collaboration, which differs from boycotting.
Taking the form of a festival, unfolding through a series of public events, it starts with a weekend-long programme of discussions, artist talks, workshops, performances, and documentary and fictional cinema. The programme includes an exhibition of artist works and aftermath documentaries of the public programme opening weekend. The vernissage will be complemented by AVTOMAT concert who will present the project PLEŚNI which combines Ukrainian and other polyphonic folk songs with the modern electronic bass background.

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation supports young female artists who use unusual forms of artistic expression and whose common denominator is the compelling need to reflect upon the world around them – namely their social and political surroundings. Each of the invited artists has developed their own way of solving modern-day problems, which adds even more dimensions and value to the project – it invites them to participate in a conversation that does not exclude any group and makes no assumptions.

Combining visual arts with political and social discourses, the festival?s dynamic programme is based on an interaction with a wide audience. It aims to promote the activities of women working in a variety of media as well as their visibility in the public sphere, providing a space for their voices to sound strong and loud. It fights stereotypes, bringing new inputs into existing observations. In other words, it challenges conventional ways of thinking.

The festival will unite the diversity of artistic and discursive activities. All of these will spin around the historical and contemporary relationships between Russia and Ukraine, investigating such subjects as post-colonialism, patriotism, and nationalism within co-called ex-Soviet bloc, as well as exploring the power of media and artistic agency in times of political upheaval.

The project is supported by The Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Królikarnia, a division of the National Museum, Warsaw

Patron: Filigran Sp. z o.o.

Partners: Against Gravity, Planete+ Doc Film Festival, Hostel Pepe, LODOVE, Skamiejka

Media patronage: TVP Kultura, Radio TOK FM, Culture.pl, Natemat.pl

The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage


Workshop: Mariia Gonchar How to pack and deliver the food from outside to a detention facility. (EN/PL)

The event is inspired by the seemingly impossible ways of functioning of the court system which derives from a modified USSR penal code, where justice is subjugated solely to accusatory tendency and where the law exists on paper, however, not all that is written is put into practice. Mariia Gonchar presents the reflection on her experience of Ukrainian upheaval through the practice, which was used in Ukraine during Maidan riots to send a parcel for a person detained in a custody.

Photo: Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation
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DATES

  • Oct 3 - 26, 2014

LOCATION

  • Królikarnia, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, division of National Museum in Warsaw
  • Warsaw, Poland

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