Lecture "The Art of Ukraine's Euromaidan: Changing the Environment of Protest, " Sunday, February 15 at 2 pm

 



 

Join us at 2 p.m. for "The Art of Ukraine's Euromaidan: Changing the
Environment of Protest," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Nazar Kozak, Senior
Researcher in the Department of Art Historical Studies in the Ethnology
Institute at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who will be in NYC
to speak at the 2015 College Art Association Conference.

Euromaidan started on November 21, 2013 in the central square of Ukraine's
capital, Kyiv, as a nonviolent resistance movement. In the course of ninety
days it was gradually transformed into bloody unrest with over one hundred
killed. Artists participated actively in these events as observers, as
agitators and as environment builders. Dr. Kozak will discuss art projects
created directly in the streets where protests took place. This art was not
sanctioned by authorities, it was vulnerable to damage, and for the vast
majority of its viewers it remained anonymous. Inspired by a variety of
sources and realized in a number of representational media, these projects
questioned the boundaries between art and religious cult objects, means of
political propaganda and even weapons of riot. On the other hand, when
brought inside barricades they lightened the doom in atmosphere of civil
unrest with elaborated aesthetics engaging and inviting the protesters into
the realm of remarkable art.

Admission: $15, members & seniors $10; students $5.

 

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