Still from: AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan), Lucid Skin, 2019, color, sound, 16:16 min. Courtesy the artist.
Did you not get to join the screening of Three Voices from Ukraine at the Kunsthall? Watch them here – but be quick: The films are only available online until June 17!
Three Voices from Ukraine is an event presenting three filmic works by contemporary artists AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan), Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey, Mykola Ridnyi from Ukraine. The project is an iteration of A Letter from the Front, a program of filmic works and moving images by contemporary artists from Ukraine, originally commissioned and produced by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is curated by Nikita Kadan with Giulia Colletti. The screening at Kunsthall Trondheim is curated by Mette Woller, Program Curator.
Please note that viewer discretion is advised.
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Lucid Skin
By AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan)
2019, color, sound, 16:16 min.
The protagonist is an artist who rethinks his identity. He is into self-harm as a way to punish his ‘masculinity’.
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Dedicated to the Youth of the World II
By Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey
2019, HD video, color, sound, 9 min.
The focus of the film is the techno rave Cxema and the youth, on which the camera is carefully focused the next morning after the event. This is the place and meeting that the youth of Kyiv are waiting for and preparing for — this particular escape from everyday life, rejection of it — evokes strange feelings of modern ritual.
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Regular Places
By Mykola Ridnyi
2014-2015, HD video color, sound, 15:23 min.
The comings and goings of citizens in five public sites around Kharkiv are filmed from a static angle. Without a sense of context, the uneventful footage seems irreconcilable with the brutally violent conflict between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists that occurred here only months earlier. Rupturing the calm atmosphere, audio excerpts extracted from online videos have been overlaid on top of the footage; shouts of threats, warnings, abuse and intimidation echo across indifferent scenes, in a forced confrontation between recent traumatic memories and a present state of collective denial.
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We are pleased to invite you to the film program Three Voices from Ukraine at the Kunsthall Friday 3 June at 5 pm together with the Ukrainian community in Trondheim, Українська Спілка в Тронхеймі!
Three Voices from Ukraine is an event presenting three filmic works by contemporary artists AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan), Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey, Mykola Ridnyi from Ukraine. The project is an iteration of A Letter from the Front, a program of filmic works and moving images by contemporary artists from Ukraine, originally commissioned and produced by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is curated by Nikita Kadan with Giulia Colletti.
Alongside the film screening KunstØrn hosts their super popular solidarity tapestry workshop for children. During the workshop there will be a Norwegian/Ukrainian translator present. The solidarity tapestry is made from recycled materials from old clothes and textiles. At the workshop, the children will be given a textile patch that you can embroider, paint, draw and write on. All the patches are sewn together with the patches of others, and together a large patchwork quilt is formed together for solidarity, and a space for sharing thoughts and reflections about unity, love, war and peace.
Løkkan frivilligsentral brings cake for all guests to enjoy!
The event is free.
Warmly welcome!
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Program
17.00
The event will be welcomed by spokesperson from the Ukrainian community in Trondheim, Olga Mosand, and Program Curator of Kunsthall Trondheim, Mette Woller
17.10–19.00
KunstØrn host a solidarity tapestry workshop, together with an interpretor in the bottom floor of the Kunsthall.
17.10
Lucid Skin (2019, 16.16 min) by AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan)
Dedicated to the Youth of the World II (2019, 9 min) by Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey
Regular Places (2014–2015, 15 min) by Mykola Ridnyi
18.10
Streaming of conversation between Curator of A Letter from the Front Nikita Kadan and curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. (ca. 40 min)
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Lucid Skin
By AntiGonna (in collaboration with Nikita Kadan)
2019, color, sound, 16:16 min.
The protagonist is an artist who rethinks his identity. He is into self-harm as a way to punish his ‘masculinity’.
Dedicated to the Youth of the World II
By Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey
2019, HD video, color, sound, 9 min.
The focus of the film is the techno rave Cxema and the youth, on which the camera is carefully focused the next morning after the event. This is the place and meeting that the youth of Kyiv are waiting for and preparing for — this particular escape from everyday life, rejection of it — evokes strange feelings of modern ritual.
Regular Places
By Mykola Ridnyi
2014-2015, HD video color, sound, 15:23 min.
The comings and goings of citizens in five public sites around Kharkiv are filmed from a static angle. Without a sense of context, the uneventful footage seems irreconcilable with the brutally violent conflict between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists that occurred here only months earlier. Rupturing the calm atmosphere, audio excerpts extracted from online videos have been overlaid on top of the footage; shouts of threats, warnings, abuse and intimidation echo across indifferent scenes, in a forced confrontation between recent traumatic memories and a present state of collective denial.
Public program taking place at Kunsthall Trondheim is curated by Mette Woller, Program Curator.