In 2025, we are delighted to invite theatre and performance creators to develop their own work, which will become part of the repertoire of the Jam Factory Art Center.
The performative program of the Art Center serves as a continuously operating alternative theatre platform in Lviv. We create and present stage works that engage with political and social processes, seek innovative and relevant forms and implement educational and laboratory projects for and with artists to foster shared growth and free experimentation. We focus on collaboration with independent actors in the performative sector and related artistic and cultural practices.
Applications are welcome from directors, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, or creative tandems from Ukraine and abroad.
For this project, we invite artists to reflect on the theme ‘After the Devastation’
Existing within a ‘horizon of death’, where destruction and loss are ongoing and have become part of a distorted reality, we face a constantly shifting present/future. This reality is inevitably tied to devastation: lost people and territories, severed connections, destroyed non-human beings, ruined ‘things’ and landscapes. Each loss creates a void in the structures of coexistence, mythologies, values, and needs, requiring immediate transformations to adapt. We exist simultaneously in an unending process of ruination and in a state of ‘after’ of destruction, which occurred yesterday, an hour ago or over the past years.
Looking towards an inevitable future, what new mythologies do we need? With whom do we co-create the superorganism that ensures collective survival? How will our relationships within human and non-human communities evolve after the devastation? What will the long-anticipated ‘after’, which begins when the war ends, bring?
Curator of the project
Liuba Ilnytska