Art in the Shadow of War in Ukraine with Vasyl Cherepanyn

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VASYL CHEREPANYN is head of the Visual Culture Research Center, an institution based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and organizing the Kyiv Biennial. In this special session of Art & Protest, Cherepanyn will analyze the cultural and political context of Ukraine during the war, providing a snapshot of the field since the Maidan revolution followed by the Russian occupation of Crimea and Donbas in 2014 up to the current full-scale invasion of the country. The talk focuses on the functioning of art institutions under the conditions of war and occupation, connecting symbolic and real violence to their influence on cultural processes in Ukrainian society and beyond. Art has become a political subject, and this talk traces how artistic, academic, and political antagonisms have developed from the perspective of a civically engaged cultural institution.
Sponsored by Beinecke Library, the Postwar Culture Working Group, and the Whitney Humanities Center. For more information about the ART & PROTEST SERIES or to join the mailing list, write to kevin.repp@yale.edu.
Image: Davyd Chychkan, Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko, Watercolor, Liner on Paper, A4 (2022)