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La Biennale di Venezia - Meetings on Art, 11.06.2022 | Festival Hors Pistes - Centre Pompidou, Paris, 27.01.2023 | Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10.02.2023 | The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 17.02.2023 | Goldsmiths - University of London, 13.06.2023 | Festival Renacimiento / Renaissance - Universitat Politècnica de València, 17.11.2023. Exhibitions: Summerhall War Memorial Gallery, Edinburgh, 10.02-26.03.2023, Plovdiv, 2025 War | Oppression | Dystopia with its white shadow Peace | Freedom | Utopia was first curated by Adrien Sina in 2020, in a pre-war period, as a contemporary component of his Feminine Futures exhibitions. Anticipating future tragedies, it has acquired dramatic urgency from 24.02.2022 onwards, with Russia's inhumane aggression towards Ukraine. His selection of premonitory dances in devastated sites, of collective dynamics affected by undetermined dangers, of dances of love and ephemerality, was then complemented by new performances in the midst of destruction in the heat of the early waves of war, and in the in-between spaces haunting the minds of uprooted or refugee dancers. Since 1995, with Fugitive Fluctuations,
Adrien Sina has focussed his exhibitions upon issues of performance,
politics, dance and architecture. A special attention is paid here to
dances with cultural heritage sites, mostly impressive Soviet-era
Ukrainian modernist architecture threatened by war or just by recent
issues of de-Sovietisation, despite their sensibility and their utopian
vision of social togetherness. |
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Several choreographers have chosen to stay in Ukraine despite the incessant shelling. Others pass among us. The project is now evolving as a stimulating hub for new experiments, we created over sixteen new performances and dance films in addition to previous works. Choreographers, Dancers & Performers Set & Costume Design | Music & Sound Design Film & Photography
FEMININE FUTURES : UKRAINE Exhibition curated by Adrien Sina Summerhall War Memorial Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 February - 26 March 2023
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War | Oppression | Dystopia Curated by Adrien Sina Konstantin Koval is the talented Ukrainian dancer and choreographer who with Andzej Gavriss and Rick Dodds conceived the short film UPROOTED
for the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Released in June 2022, in the
heat of the early waves of war, it unfolded the urgent necessity of
supporting, following and bringing to light the deeply poignant
creativity of contemporary Ukrainian dance scene.
War | Oppression | Dystopia Curated by Adrien Sina Searching for strength and ethics of resistance deep in the collective memory, this powerful historical fresco 'shows us portraits of Ukrainian Ancestors who bless us to fight against darkness. Each portrait displays a certain tragic moment in Ukrainian history related to Russian aggression. We will see our ancestors talking to us, the descendants, reminding us about these historical events, the price of Freedom and our contribution to the achievement of independence.' Allegorical and historical figures are re-enacted with an impressive dramatic intensity, dating back to the Ukrainian Galician Army fighting for independence against Poland in 1918-19 and against the Bolsheviks in 1920, after the collapse of Russian and Austrian empires. Images of past and present resonate so accurately today, as the cruelty of history repeats itself. Dancer: Kateryna Trukhina. Cast: Kozak Siromaha,
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War Crime Memorial Adrien Sina, 22.04.2022 This temporary portable monument is a conceptual displacement project made of 12 military ammunition crates filled with destruction debris from Ukraine's cities attacked by Russian weapons. They are collected evidence of Russian war crimes and massacres in Ukraine, a tragic demonstration of what innocent civilians had and still have to undergo. The sides of the crates are marked in military stencil font with the name of the targeted cities: Bucha, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Izyum, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya, Chernihiv, Sumy, Borodzianka... The memorial is conceived to be placed in front of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, it can also be transported to other venues such as Russian Embassy gates. The crates are displayed in a square occupying a surface of 2.10 x 2.10 m on the strip of grass separating the alley Viale Trento from the entrance area of the Russian Pavilion in the Giardini. The monument is horizontal as opposed to the verticality of totalitarian power. During a performance session, the names of the destroyed cities are destined to be declaimed alongside quotations from war diaries by Ukrainian intellectuals, artists or bloggers.
Rubble samples from each city would be respectfully laid in the
ammunition crates, alongside with debris of Tyulpan mortar shells,
ballistic or airstrike missiles, and internationally banned cluster or
thermobaric weapons. Blue and yellow flowers would be laid around the
memorial and a minute of silence would be observed. Unrealised, it nonetheless constituted the first curatorial act of my exhibition series War | oppression | Dystopia. It received public attention at the Venice Biennale Meetings on Art, on 11 June 2022, as the culmination of my talk on Feminine Futures and the early 20th-century history of artists' diaries and performances reacting to war. |
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