March 7 - Nazar Kozak Lecture - "How Can Art Fight Back? Refugee Artists and the Ukrainian Crisis"

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*"How Can Art Fight Back? Refugee Artists and the Ukrainian Crisis"*

*A Talk by Nazar Kozak*(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016-17
Fulbright scholar at the Ukrainian Museum in New York)

March 7, 2017 at 4:30PM
Columbia University Harriman Institute, New York
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (Room 1219 International Affairs Building)

Russia=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Chybrid war=E2=80=9D against Ukraine caused more t=
han a million refugees
to flee from the Crimean peninsula and Donbas region. Artists were among
them. While coping with the challenge of unbelonging to a new social
environment with a failed state system unprepared to embrace them, some of
the refugee artists used this situation to fuel their creativity and
explore quite new and unusual forms of expression. Some examples include
the Izolyatsia (Isolation) group evacuated from the Ukrainian city of
Donetsk, now occupied by Russia-backed fighters, who figured out a way to
fight back by staging a mock occupation of the Russian pavilion at the
Venice Biennale of 2015. Based on interviews with Ukrainian refugee
artists, this lecture explores the change in their creative approaches
caused by the experience of displacement and war.

http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/how-can-art-fight-back-refugee-artists-a=
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krainian Crisis&quot;</b><div><b>A Talk by Nazar Kozak<br></b>(National Aca=
demy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016-17 Fulbright scholar at the Ukrainian Mus=
eum in New York)</div><div><br>March 7, 2017 at=C2=A04:30PM<div>Columbia Un=
iversity Harriman Institute, New York<br>Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (=
Room 1219 International Affairs Building)<br><br>Russia=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9C=
hybrid war=E2=80=9D against Ukraine caused more than a million refugees to =
flee from the Crimean peninsula and Donbas region. Artists were among them.=
 While coping with the challenge of unbelonging to a new social environment=
 with a failed state system unprepared to embrace them, some of the refugee=
 artists used this situation to fuel their creativity and explore quite new=
 and unusual forms of expression. Some examples include the Izolyatsia (Iso=
lation) group evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, now occupied by=
 Russia-backed fighters, who figured out a way to fight back by staging a m=
ock occupation of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2015. Base=
d on interviews with Ukrainian refugee artists, this lecture explores the c=
hange in their creative approaches caused by the experience of displacement=
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