From January 31 to March 17, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, there will be a public programme including a series of cinema screenings, discussions and lectures. The exhibition is devoted to the issue of the militarization of Ukrainian society and, in particular, the attitude of youth to violence and weapons. The project participants portray the fragile state of the contemporary Ukrainian society that is undergoing an external military intervention and experiencing internal disruptive movements caused by ultra-right activists.
On February 1, at 7PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, artists and authors of series will discuss the video-series project.
During the event, there will be a discussion with the participants of the project Armed and Dangerous. Artists will tell more about their own works, about the course of events during the filming and will talk generally about the problem of the growth of right-radical views in modern Ukrainian society.
Kateryna Filyuk is a co-curator of the Armed and Dangerous exhibition.
February 1 (Friday); 7 PM
IZONE Creative Community; the 2nd floor
8 Naberezhno-Luhova St. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Entry is free
On February 7, at 7PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, Anna Hrytsenko will talk about extreme right movements in Ukraine.
During the lecture, Anna Hrytsenko, a researcher on far right movements, will outline the process of mobilizing young people in extreme right movements, something which has been observed in Ukraine in recent years. Can we talk about a new political mood? How do teenagers get involved in hate crimes? What are the unique benefits offered to them?
Anna Hrytsenko is a researcher of extreme right movements; graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Faculty of Sociology. Research interests are right radicalism and gender studies. Co-author of the publication Gender, Religion and Nationalism in Ukraine.
February 7 (Thursday); 7 PM
IZONE Creative Community; the 4th floor, Studio 1
8 Naberezhno-Luhova St. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Entry is free
On February 17, at 4PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, there will be a public discussion where each participant will recall their own experiences and memories of encountering far right violence, will try to analyse the general situation.
The name of the discussion firstly refers to the Witnesses of the End column in the online publishing Update, in which the researcher of extreme right movements, Anna Hrytsenko, collects news about the activities of the Ukrainian radicals. Secondly, the name refers to the personal experiences of everyone who will participate in the discussion. They have been direct witnesses to the violent actions of the Ukrainian far-right representatives in relation to the certain artistic projects and some artistic objects.
Hanna Tsyba, a researcher, Contemporary Arts and Culture Studies, curator.
February 17 (Sunday); 4 PM
Everyone will receive the information about the place of the event after filling in the registration form
Entry is free
On February 21, at 7PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, the lecture Kateryna Yakovlenko will talk about the video experiments of Ukrainian artists and analyze some of the works. There will be a screening.
In the early 1990s, Ukrainian artists got their hands on video cameras, and they began to experiment with the genre. The Ukrainian artists were fascinated by the idea of working on the edge of visual art and cinema. In the early years of the decade, works were created that appealed to visual culture, the aesthetics of television and world cinema, as well as issues of documentation, truth and lies. One of the most striking examples of that time was Vasyl Tsagolov, who conceptualised his work as Solid Television.
Kateryna Yakovlenko is a member of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform, a publicist, co-author of the PARCOMMUNE book. She contributes to the publications LB.ua and Bird in Flight.
February 21 (Thursday), 7 PM
IZONE Creative Community; the 2nd floor
8 Naberezhno-Luhova St. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Entry is free
On March 2, at 7PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, the lecture Kateryna Yakovlenko will be an event by main media partner, media-platform Zaborona.
It is already the fifth year of the war in eastern Ukraine. During this time, many have noticed that outside the military zone, in ‘peaceful cities’, the war is not visible. But the longer the war continues, the more it is visible in discourse, changes in rhetoric, culture, appearance. During this discussion, the participants will consider how the war penetrates private life and what this leads to.
Katerina Sergatskova is a journalist, editor-in-chief of the media project Zaborona.
March 1 (Friday), 7 PM
IZONE Creative Community; the 4th floor, Studio 2
8 Naberezhno-Luhova St. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Entry is free; but, please, fill in the form
On March 14, at 7PM, as part of the Armed and Dangerous project, there will be special screenings of works by artists Anna Scherbina and Valentina Petrova as part of the video-series exhibition Armed and Dangerous.
In the new series, the sisters of the sisterhood of St. of Mary of Egypt are armed and dangerous, fighting for unequal rights and painting their nails. In a world full of hardships, temptations and distortions, they have to stand up to a duel with deviant marginals, or to lose painfully, filling up a colony of human garbage. Will these beautiful and brave women be able to save traditional family values from the threats of the outside world? Everything will become clear after watching the new series of Armed and Dangerous.
March 14 (Thursday), 7 PM
IZONE Creative Community; the 4th floor, Studio 2
8 Naberezhno-Luhova St. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Entry is free
On January 31, at 7 PM, IZOLYATSIA invites to the opening of the video-series project Armed and Dangerous. The project reflects on the ambiguous state of Ukrainian society undergoing an external intervention and internal disruptive movements. Armed and Dangerous is a project-platform that brings together a group of artists and film directors working on the intersection of contemporary art and experimental cinema. Artist Mykola Ridnyi proposed that the project take the form of a video series devoted to the militarisation of society and, in particular, the attitude of youth to violence and weapons.