Der dritte Event der Reihe On Art and Resistance in Ukraine

10. Januar 2023, von Olga Stelter

Der dritte Event der Reihe On Art and Resistance in Ukraine findet am 19. Januar um 19:00 im Raum 120, ESA West, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 und online auf Zoom statt. Es handelt sich um zwei Vorträge mit einer Diskussion im Anschluss: 
 
Two-Fold Decolonial War in Ukraine: Images of Emancipation and Resistance von Kateryna Botanova 
 
Through looking at the origins of the decolonial discourse and its use in South America and Africa, I want to argue its applicability to Ukrainian (and in a wider context, Eastern European) context. I suggest analysing the knowledge- and image-generating power relations between Ukraine and Russia, as well as Ukraine and ‚the Global West‘, in order to see Ukrainian resistance from 2014 on as an emancipatory struggle for owning one’s agency, voice, and identity. In the course of this lecture, I will trace the changes in artistic attitudes and approaches after Maidan and their role in the current stage of the war.
 
Ukraine’s New Art in a Time of War: Dismantling the Colonial Narrative von Svitlana Biedarieva.

The presentation focuses on how Ukrainian artists challenge and dismantle longstanding Russian colonial narratives in their art produced after the beginning of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. It examines how artists work with contested historical memory, dispute Ukraine’s belonging to the post-Soviet space, and address the ongoing trauma through both decolonial perspective and anti-colonial resistance. The presentation also discusses the role of art activism and the place of politically and socially engaged practices in the particular decolonial turn that follows the outbreak of violence brought about by the full-scale invasion. It proposes a classification of colonial narratives in the particular case of Ukraine, in order to create a typology of methods and practices of resistance employed by the artists in their works.

Im Anschluss können wir mit Kateryna Botanova und Svitlana Biedarieva vor Ort und online diskutieren. 
 
Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier: 
https://www.kulturwissenschaften.uni-hamburg.de/ks/forschung/art-and-resistance-ukraine.html
 
Die Aufnahme letzten Vortrags aus der Reihe Revolution at War: Art and Politics in Ukraine von Vasyl Cherepanyn finden Sie hier: https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/en/l2go/-/get/l/7251