[oberlist] Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ousted the Visual Culture Research Center

[Vasyl Cherepanyn]

*Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ousted the Visual Culture Research Center** *

*On March 29th, 2012 the Academic Council of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy liquidated
Visual Culture Research Center as NaUKMA unit. *

*After the previous decision on the suspension of VCRC activities the
representatives of international artistic and academic community expressed
their support for the Center. Particularly, the petition for the support of
VCRC was signed by Timothy Snyder, the professor of history at Yale
University, world renowned philosophers Slavoj *Žižek* and Judith Butler,
the curator of the First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Arsenale 2012 David Elliot, French philosopher Jacques Rancière and many
others. However, members of the Academic Council regarded such open support
for the Center as harming the Mohyla's public image and discrediting the
university administration. *

*Despite the resolution of Academic Council, the VCRC continues its work as
an independent art and research institution both inside and outside the
university. The next planned events will include: exhibitions by the German
photographer and film director Miron Zownir, Austrian photographer Erich
Lessing, Polish artist and 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art curator
Artur *Ż*miewski, lectures by the American philosopher Michael Walzer and
the Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj *Žižek.

*Since 2008 Visual Culture Research Center has been conducting regular
events for wide public (discussions, international conferences, exhibitions
etc.) that have become popular within the KMA community, as well as outside
of it. At NaUKMA the VCRC, together with the independent student union
"Direct Action", were the main organizers of the students' protests, which
lead to withdrawal of the law in draft, according to which the Academy
could have lost its university status.***

-- 
Vasyl Cherepanyn
PhD, Cultural Studies Department,
Director of Visual Culture Research Center
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
http://vcrc.ukma.kiev.ua/uk/
Old Academic Building, 1 st floor

2 Skovorody Street
04655 Kyiv Ukraine

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