The laboratory envisages two weekly sessions, where participants, mentors, and lecturers will test artistic forms of work with the themes of common pain, marginalized problems that are being displaced by the dominant narrative of war, and competition of experiences. Participation in the laboratory involves attending master classes and lectures, individual and collective experimental work on ideas for performative events. The second session of the laboratory involves the public presentation of short collaborative performances created by groups of participants.
The first session of the laboratory
The first session of the laboratory took place on August 2-8, 2023, with an active program and practices provided by curators Roza Sarkisіan and Lіuba Ilnytska. As part of the laboratory, a public lecture by Nikita Kadan, “The suffering of others. Being someone else,” and a workshop by Polish director Justyna Sobczyk took place.
Yustyna talked about the experience of creating a professional theater, Teatr 21 in Warsaw, which includes people with disabilities, as well as the work of the “Center for Art that includes” that involves different social groups in the fields of art and science through meetings with artists, master classes, lectures on the art created by people with disabilities.
Participants:
Arsen Smyk
Tereza Yakovyna
Kateryna Hredil
Larysa Kalinina
Lena Kudaіeva
Alona Kutsenko
Sofiіa Zinchenko
Roksolana Mulyk
Kateryna Parfiryeva
Daryna Sak
Vasyl Vasylyk
Juliia Dzheck
Oksana Potapova
Polina Korobeynyk
Yurii Shtaida
Mariia Cherkashyna
Mykhailo Ponzel
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Photo by Bohdan Yemets
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The second session of the laboratory, October 1-8
Artists from different Ukrainian cities meet in the laboratory to analyze the state and ability of the theater to react to a reality filled with collective and individual pain. Through research and experiment, the group tries different performative forms with their bodies and experiences.
The laboratory is dedicated to the procedural search for artists, which does not involve the creation of a final product. Here, we give ourselves the time and space to feel the hard and fragile zones of established narratives and representations in practice. In an open show, the participants present their work through performances, actions, and work-in-progress sketches.
The second session featured a workshop by Dmytro Levytskyi, where the group worked with a recorded voice that sounded in headphones. “There are already many formats in the theater where this tool is used. It seems this is not evanescent, so it would be worth paying more attention to. We will record the voice and see where the theater could be.”
Mentors of the second session: Roza Sarkisian – a theater director and curator; Yaroslav Futymskyi – an artist, performer, and curator.
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