13th May 2022 at 6 PM, ALL THAT'S LEFT
We cordially invite you for a pop-up show by our resident Bogdana Zayats and her host Darja Lukjanenko.
Bogdana Zayats will present her work for the first time at INI, focusing on works created in the last two months. These works respond both to specific war events in Ukraine and to the situations in which the artist currently finds herself. In the INI space, a selected series of her prints as well as new objects created by Bogdana Zayats during the residency will be on display.
Darja Lukjanenko will exhibit a series of textile prints called Anti-cosmism flags at INI. This series from 2021 is based on the artist's long-term interest in the critique of Russian cosmism. The artist describes desires of cosmism to conquer space and establish a new cosmic order as a manifestation of colonial ambitions, discrimination, anthropocentrism and patriarchal tendencies. The artist also turns to her own experience of life in the city, whose part was a secret factory for the production of nuclear weapons. Anti-cosmism flags are thus materialization of the author's "Don Quixote-like battle" with rockets and cosmism ideas.
Bogdana Zayats is a student of philosophy and art. In her practice, she mainly deals with illustration, comics and zine creation. She publishes her work preferably in the online environment under the identity @my_pet_spider. Using short juxtapositions of drawings and texts, she reflects on moments from her life that inspire her poetic and political thinking. Bogdana Zayats is a third year student of Aesthetics and Ethics at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev as well as a student of the Contemporary Art Program at the Academy of Media Arts in Kiev.
Darja Lukjanenko works interdisciplinary, across performance, text, and gardening. Since 2020 she has confronted rockets and protesting cosmism. She explores physical sensuality through empathy stimulation practices, non-human position study, and discovering domination-free forms of relationships. Darja Lukjanenko is a student of UMPRUM and graduate of journalism at Dnipro National University.
The Project could be implemented thanks to the financial support of the Czech Ministry of Culture, the State Cultural Fund, a grant from the City of Prague.
26th May 2022 at 6 PM, UKRAINIAN CULTURE IN WARTIME: accelerated decolonization
a lesson by Darja Lukjanenko
"The day before the invasion, the war criminal and President of Russia made a speech insisting Ukraine should not exist, neither Ukrainian identity. However, it’s not the first case Ukrainian culture got attacked. There are 134 cases of Ukrainian culture suppression known over the last 400 years."
In her lesson called Ukrainian Culture in Wartime, Darja Lukjanenko will focus on the impacts of the continuing imperial pressure on Ukrainian culture and on the decolonization processes that must be undertaken against it. Using specific examples, the artist will explore how confrontation with Russian imperialism, repeated struggles for independence and attempts to preserve the heritage have helped to shape Ukrainian culture as a tool of resistance or a way of collectively expressing freedom. The lesson itself thus becomes a manifestation of the artist's idea that one of the best things to be done in the fight against Russia's colonial ambitions is to draw our attention to Ukrainian culture, art and identity.
Darja Lukjanenko works interdisciplinary, across performance, text, and gardening. Since 2020 she has confronted rockets and protested cosmism. She explores physical sensuality through empathy stimulation practices, non-human position study, and discovering domination-free forms of relationships. Darja Lukjanenko is a student of UMPRUM and graduate of journalism at Dnipro National University.
The lesson will be held in English.
The Project could be implemented thanks to the financial support of the Czech Ministry of Culture, the State Cultural Fund, a grant from the City of Prague.
An online lecture available on our Youtube chanel
15th June at 6 PM, A Lecture on Ukrainian Animation
We cordially invite you to a lecture and screening prepared by Maria Afanasieva.
Maria Afanasieva will talk about the present and past of Ukrainian animation. She will dive into the beginnings of Ukrainian animation, paying attention to the studio of scientific animation Kievnauchfilm, as well as to the state studio Ukranimafilm. In her lesson, she will also focus on post-revolutionary changes in animation and studios of the 1990s-2000s, animated film experiments and commercials. An important part of the lecture will be the contemporary Ukrainian animation in the context of the Russian invasion and examples of how Ukrainian filmmakers react to the ongoing war.
Maria Afanasieva is a student of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University, currently studies at FAMU internship programme.
8th July at 5 PM, No More Titles I Could Think Of: the final exhibition
We cordially invite you to the pop-up exhibition by Bohdana Zaiats, which concludes her three-month stay in the INI space.
Bohdana Zaiats will present new works created during the residency. Working at the INI studio, the artist has expanded her existing practice with new formal procedures, that is why not only comics and illustrations typical for the author, but also videos and object installations will be on display. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the ideas behind this new piece of work is necessarily connected with the author's reflection on the current war in Ukraine.
Bohdana Zaiats (*2002) is a student of philosophy and art. In her practice, she mainly deals with illustration, comics and zine creation. She publishes her work preferably in the online environment under the identity @my_pet_spider. Using short juxtapositions of drawings and texts, she reflects on moments from her life that inspire her poetic and political thinking. Bohdana Zaiats is a third year student of Aesthetics and Ethics at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev as well as a student of the Contemporary Art Program at the Academy of Media Arts in Kiev.
The Project could be implemented thanks to the financial support of the Czech Ministry of Culture, the State Cultural Fund, a grant from the City of Prague.