[Oberlist] PERFORMATIVITY Educational Art Project - Kyiv, Ukraine

[Educational-art project]

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*PERFORMATIVITY Educational Art Project*



Performativity is one of the leading tendencies in contemporary art. In the
context of this project, performativity is a particular type of artistic
activity that thematizes temporality; it researches the process of
transformation of concepts (nouns) into action (verbs). Project participants
are invited into the common experience of performativity as distinct from
usual forms of communication, and to provoke social-artistic discussion
about the necessity of creating alternative structures for art education.



The project, initiated by TanzLaboratorium and supported by the Rinat
Akhmetov Foundation “Development of Ukraine,” the Polish Institute and the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), is aimed at the development of
Ukrainian contemporary performing art. It is composed of several
interrelating curatorial research projects, each of which includes different
kinds of activities, such as laboratories, performances, discussions,
lectures, etc., related to a conceptual theme. The project will take place
from 27 June – 10 July 2011 in Kyiv. Participants include artists and
theorists from Portugal, Russia, Poland, Canada, the USA and Ukraine.

Ukraine is facing a crisis of cultural prospects. The degree of development
in contemporary art, art education, and so on reflects the country’s overall
cultural situation. While there is no lack of artistic production, there is
lack of critical reflection that precludes the possibility for a culture of
innovation. The strict division of artistic practices into genres still
persists from Soviet times. Contemporary art is a phenomenon that
transgresses the borderes between genres, disciplines and media, and also
has the ability to analyze itself as well as the conditions in which it
exists; thus it is capable of influencing the development of cognitive
technologies.



PERFORMATIVITY Educational Art Project is intended to be a yearly event.
This is the first step in creating a continuing alternative art education
platform in Ukraine that can expand and change form and location, depending
on the needs of the art community and social context.


Partners: Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Cultural Project, Kupidon
Art Group, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Karas Gallery, Les Kurbas
National Theatre Arts Center.

More information at performativity.org
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