The Intersectorial Festival of Contemporary Art of Ukraine and Spain: "RENAISSANCE" is a joint initiative of the CultUcrania platform, the French Institute, and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), participating through the Vice-Rectorate of Art, Science, Technology, and Society and the Faculty of Fine Arts, thanks to the University-Refuge Action Plan of the Ministry of Universities.
The main objective of this project is to provide cultural and psychological support through intercultural dialogue between young artists from Spain and Ukraine, with awareness-raising activities among various sectors of the university community regarding aspects related to the Ukraine crisis. Nature, ecocide, humanity, life and death cycles, crises, paths, perspectives, destruction, regeneration... are themes to be explored.
Within the framework of this project, three Ukrainian art students would be participating in the Artistic Residence on UPV:
And they will collaborate with students from the Faculty of Fine Arts at UPV:
The projects carried out during the residency will be presented in an exhibition that will also include works by researchers from Ukraine who are developing their work in different institutes and departments of the Universitat Politècnica de València, such as Oksana Udovyk and Ivan Tsidyloи.
The residency started on Thursday, October 5th, with an online seminar involving resident artists, mentors, curators, and the organization.
Presentation of Maria Kotvitska
Conference: Ukraine's altered landscapes, de Katya Taylor
Conference: How do we touch the untouchable? The frame of cultural practices and social trauma, de Chris Baldwin
Conference: Ukrainian landscape and ecological catastrophe for the whole of europe, as a consequence of war, de Ivetta Dalikatna
Conference: Dance and war program , de Adrien Sina
Speech: students y mentors
Coordinación proyecto
Maria Kotvitska. Cultucrania ES
Salomé Cuesta Varela. Vicerrectora de Arte, Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad UPV
María José Martínez de Pisón Ramón. Directora Área Acción Cultural UPV
Equipo CulturUcrania ES
Kate Kosmina
Kate Khvostenko
Mentoras/es
Adrien Sina. Arquitecto, artista, comisario, historiador de danza y artes escénicas
Yvetta Delikatna. Coordinadora de campañas nacionales en el Crisis Media Center (Ucrania)
Chris Baldwin. Director artístico y curador
Partners
Natalia Korchyna. Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes y Arquitectura Kyiv, Ucrania
Iury Lech Polanski. Fundador-Director de MADATAC
Natasha Serbenyuk. ArtTherapyForce UA
Alexander Nogachevskiy. AUCRM
Sergiy Savchenko. Savchenko Foundation
Web of the project in Cultucrania: cultucrania.org/renacimiento
