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PMF | The Ukrainian Underground Fighting War with Culture (Czech Premiere)
Event by: OBJECT:PARADISE, PMF Prague Microfestival
Location: Kampus Hybernska, Hybernská 998/4, Praha 1
Talks & discussions, Films
About event
Join us for the Czech premiere of Existence is Resistance, an experimental documentary film + book that delves into the role of culture as a form of resistance in Ukraine during the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion.
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When???
Saturday, October 26th 2024 :::
19:00 : pannel discussion about the project ft. discussions with Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, Louis Armand, David Vichnar, and Lyana Mytsko
20:00 : film screening + book launch
21:00 - 22:00 : live music by Širém (free jazz / experimental).
Where???
Kampus Hybernská, sklep 'E'.
How much???
FREE
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!!! About the film !!!
Directed by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska, the film highlights how culture, activism, and collective expression have become vital in preserving the momentum to resist amidst the destruction of war.
Filmed entirely in the historic city of Lviv, the documentary captures the stories of artists, curators, musicians, and activists who are using culture as a tool for resistance. From performance festivals to underground punk shows, Existence is Resistance explores the many ways that existence and resistance intertwine in times of crisis.
VHS 38:32min B/W & colour
directed by Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
edited by Tyko Say
produced by Louis Armand & David Vichnar
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!!! About the book !!!
The word “samizdat” appropriates the Soviet expression for “self-publishing,” used in the past to refer to the underground production of prohibited or regime-critical texts. Today, “samizdat” continues to be a form of resistance-by-existence: literally “self” publishing – assertions of “being” through private & public actions, zine-making, broadcasting, performance, graffiti & other ephemeral, site-specific means. In the face of war, genocide & other existential forms of oppression, the refusal to be “erased” may represent the ultimate act of resistance, in the awareness that NOTHING ELSE NEED BE EXPECTED OF IT. In this, it radicalises the old idea of aesthetic autonomy, the liberty of those who – even by a momentary act – do not vanish. (Louis Armand)
Documenting the war-time cultural resistance in Ukraine, this collaborative volume features...
Photography, video stills, texts & interviews by Louis Armand, Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, Lyana Mytsko, David Vichnar, Yaryna Shumska, Andrii Linik, Oxana Demych, Bogdana Brylynska, Katya Hrytseva, Eduard Robe, Sashko Naumenko, Igor Maklay, Khrystyna Kovalyshyn, Grigory Semenchuk, Fredric Molund.
Published 2024 by PMF Prague Microfestival / International Art Centre Prague.
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!!! About the Project !!!
EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE is a collaborative critical art project curated by Louis Armand, Kasia Bazarnik, Lyana Mytsko, Sandra Pasławska, Tyko Say, Marta Sloboda, David Vichnar.
In the face of war, genocide & other existential forms of oppression, the refusal to be “erased” may represent the ultimate act of resistance, in the awareness that NOTHING ELSE NEED BE EXPECTED OF IT. In this sense the cultural “front” is truly a grey zone, lending ethical impetus to a resistance that is no longer obliged to be FOR something; it is sufficient that it IS. As an act of survival, art in this context assumes a highly ephemeral yet also transcendental form, expressed by means that do not conform to pre-existing “aesthetics.” To be, to continue to be, to have been: refusing the non-being of individual & collective erasure. Our focus is thus the culture of resistance produced by the war in Ukraine & its consequences.
Specifically, acts of refusal of cultural erasure & acts of existential self-affirmation; ephemeral artefacts of individual & collective survival; the cultural “front” as radical ontology; & the emergence in everyday life of guerrilla art forms & critical-art actions (happenings, zines, squats, graffiti & other “archives” of the present).
Project activities include workshops, samizdat publishing, street art, art triage (trauma-therapy), pop-up exhibitions & critical encounters. Areas of focus include educational & cultural events designed to communicate the lived reality of resistance to the Kremlin’s “non-war” & to give objective representation to a hidden “ideology of the unrepresentable” & its human cost. This includes giving visibility to survivors & veterans; empowering them to represent their own experiences; deploying art strategies as means of individual & collective rehabilitation; & articulating trauma as an aesthetic hermeneutic for critical understanding & counteracting the “negation of everyday life.” (Louis Armand)
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This event is part of the Prague Microfestival. Read about the full schedule of events happening throughout the weekend at https://www.praguemicrofestival.com/
This project is created in partnership with the International Arts Center Prague and Prage Microfestival.
******
When???
Saturday, October 26th 2024 :::
19:00 : pannel discussion about the project ft. discussions with Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, Louis Armand, David Vichnar, and Lyana Mytsko
20:00 : film screening + book launch
21:00 - 22:00 : live music by Širém (free jazz / experimental).
Where???
Kampus Hybernská, sklep 'E'.
How much???
FREE
******
!!! About the film !!!
Directed by Tyko Say and Sandra Pasławska, the film highlights how culture, activism, and collective expression have become vital in preserving the momentum to resist amidst the destruction of war.
Filmed entirely in the historic city of Lviv, the documentary captures the stories of artists, curators, musicians, and activists who are using culture as a tool for resistance. From performance festivals to underground punk shows, Existence is Resistance explores the many ways that existence and resistance intertwine in times of crisis.
VHS 38:32min B/W & colour
directed by Tyko Say & Sandra Pasławska
edited by Tyko Say
produced by Louis Armand & David Vichnar
******
!!! About the book !!!
The word “samizdat” appropriates the Soviet expression for “self-publishing,” used in the past to refer to the underground production of prohibited or regime-critical texts. Today, “samizdat” continues to be a form of resistance-by-existence: literally “self” publishing – assertions of “being” through private & public actions, zine-making, broadcasting, performance, graffiti & other ephemeral, site-specific means. In the face of war, genocide & other existential forms of oppression, the refusal to be “erased” may represent the ultimate act of resistance, in the awareness that NOTHING ELSE NEED BE EXPECTED OF IT. In this, it radicalises the old idea of aesthetic autonomy, the liberty of those who – even by a momentary act – do not vanish. (Louis Armand)
Documenting the war-time cultural resistance in Ukraine, this collaborative volume features...
Photography, video stills, texts & interviews by Louis Armand, Tyko Say, Sandra Pasławska, Lyana Mytsko, David Vichnar, Yaryna Shumska, Andrii Linik, Oxana Demych, Bogdana Brylynska, Katya Hrytseva, Eduard Robe, Sashko Naumenko, Igor Maklay, Khrystyna Kovalyshyn, Grigory Semenchuk, Fredric Molund.
Published 2024 by PMF Prague Microfestival / International Art Centre Prague.
******
!!! About the Project !!!
EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE is a collaborative critical art project curated by Louis Armand, Kasia Bazarnik, Lyana Mytsko, Sandra Pasławska, Tyko Say, Marta Sloboda, David Vichnar.
In the face of war, genocide & other existential forms of oppression, the refusal to be “erased” may represent the ultimate act of resistance, in the awareness that NOTHING ELSE NEED BE EXPECTED OF IT. In this sense the cultural “front” is truly a grey zone, lending ethical impetus to a resistance that is no longer obliged to be FOR something; it is sufficient that it IS. As an act of survival, art in this context assumes a highly ephemeral yet also transcendental form, expressed by means that do not conform to pre-existing “aesthetics.” To be, to continue to be, to have been: refusing the non-being of individual & collective erasure. Our focus is thus the culture of resistance produced by the war in Ukraine & its consequences.
Specifically, acts of refusal of cultural erasure & acts of existential self-affirmation; ephemeral artefacts of individual & collective survival; the cultural “front” as radical ontology; & the emergence in everyday life of guerrilla art forms & critical-art actions (happenings, zines, squats, graffiti & other “archives” of the present).
Project activities include workshops, samizdat publishing, street art, art triage (trauma-therapy), pop-up exhibitions & critical encounters. Areas of focus include educational & cultural events designed to communicate the lived reality of resistance to the Kremlin’s “non-war” & to give objective representation to a hidden “ideology of the unrepresentable” & its human cost. This includes giving visibility to survivors & veterans; empowering them to represent their own experiences; deploying art strategies as means of individual & collective rehabilitation; & articulating trauma as an aesthetic hermeneutic for critical understanding & counteracting the “negation of everyday life.” (Louis Armand)
*****
This event is part of the Prague Microfestival. Read about the full schedule of events happening throughout the weekend at https://www.praguemicrofestival.com/
This project is created in partnership with the International Arts Center Prague and Prage Microfestival.