Peilung #7: Реальності / Realitäten / Realities
- daadgalerie
- Performance
- Screening
- Talk
28.11.2024 / 18:00 – 21:00
With Andrii Rachinskyi & Daniil Revkovskyi, Oksana Kazmina
Реальності / Realitäten / Realities is the latest iteration of Peilung, a series initiated by Lada Nakonechna and Bettina Klein in 2022 that offers artists, filmmakers, and researchers from Ukraine a platform for presenting their work as well as a forum for discussion.
The event starts at 6 pm with the screening of Daniil Revkovskyi & Andriy Rachynskyi’s film Civilians.Invasion (56 min.) and a subsequent discussion (Ukrainian with English translation). After a short break, Oksana Kazmina’s performance Contemporary History of Ukraine begins at 7:30 pm.
6 pm:
Daniil Revkovskyi & Andrii Rachynskyi’s work Civilians. Invasion (2023), which was presented in the Ukrainian pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, is compiled from documentary material. For the almost one-hour film, the artists reviewed thousands of videos shared on social networks by witnesses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The multiple realities that people in Ukraine are confronted with during the war, which has been going on for ten years, are depicted in videos that directly confront the audience with the growing escalation of violence. Does the direct viewpoint of eyewitnesses, who share their terrible experiences with the viewer, generate solidarity and empathy? Or does it instead promote a distancing that conveys a sense of alienation from the danger for those who are in (supposed) safety?
7:30 pm:
In her performance series Сontemporary History of Ukraine (CHU for short), Oksana Kazmina uses extensive audio and video archives she has collected since 2015 during expeditions to various Ukrainian locations with her friends and colleagues, with the collaborators of her documentary film project Underwater,and with fellow members of the NGO Freefilmers. As part of Peilung #7, Kazmina presents the nineteenth chapter of CHU, specially conceived for the occasion, which explores the intersections between cybernetics, ritual, and the moving image. Kazmina uses live montage and a non-linear viewing mode to reveal the choices she made in constructing the story. The montage of moving image, spoken word, and live presence aims to reveal the gap between the respective event, the memory of it, and its representation in the media. Through the technical manipulation of sound and video signals in combination with “personal” gestures or performances, the artist seeks to introduce the ritual or social function of such an interface. It is her response to the numbing and hyper-stimulating presence of the media and the failure of actual communication.
Past
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Daniil Revkovskyi & Andrii Rachynskyi, "Civilians. Invasion", 2023 (video still)
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Screenshot: From top, left to right: Evhenia Leontieva, dancing in the night club Closer, during the shooting of Feast of Life, Kyiv, 2015. Shot by Alina Gontar; Oksana Kazmina performing Aperture live in her bedroom. The performance is accompanied by Vasyl’ Liakh playing live synthesizer music, Kyiv, 2021; urine in the steppe and the passage dividing the estuary in Shchaslyvtseve, a vacation spot in the Kherson Oblast, Ukraine (now occupied), 2021.