EYE/VIEW Ukraine x fanestrina da video
Part 1: 7.08. – 18.09.2022, daily from 6:30 til 23:00
Part 2: 20.09 – 30.10.2022, daily from 6:30 til 23:00
Postauto Bus Stop, Sta. Maria Val Müstair cumün Plaz, CH-7536 Sta. Maria Val Müstair
Videocity visits fanestrina da video, in a former telephone box, with videos by Ukrainian artists from the Eye-View cycle.
In the middle of the small mountain village of Sta. Maria, located in the very east of Switzerland on the Italian border, the artist Pascal Lampert, who lives there, opened a showcase for video art in a former telephone box two years ago. He invited the Videocity network to exhibit a two-part cycle of videos by Ukrainian artists from the "Eye/View" cycle.
To accompany the exhibition, the Videocity team launched a fundraising campaign. With your donation we will finance the artist fees for Ukrainian artists. As a thank you, you can select to receive postcards or a special edition of scarves from the "Chernobyl Rose Hedge" project by Copa & Sordes. A donation receipt is available on request.
Part 1
After the beginning of the war, Andrea Domesle, who lives in Basel and Beatenberg, and Walter Seidl, living in Vienna, have maintained contact with the Eastern European art scene for many years. They spent many late nights contacting Ukrainian artists driven by concern for the personal wellbeing of the Ukrainian art scene
"What can we do for you now?" was their question to Ukrainian artists. “To be present in the art world - with the works we have created”, was the answer. So the Videocity team created an exhibition with other art institutions and set up a fundraiser for Ukrainian video art. This is an important cause, as the art scene was previously already marginalized by the Western professional gaze, and the Russian invasion aims to destroy cultural assets. Ukrainian video art is exciting, diverse and reflects current debates. It will be presented in Sta. Maria Val Müstair over two months. The first exhibition focuses on gender, the second on the politics of memory.
Artists: Yana Bachynska, Copa & Sordes, Olia Fedorova, Alina Kleytman (Kontakt Collection Vienna).
Curated by Dr Andrea Domesle (Basel/Beatenberg) and Dr Walter Seidl (Vienna).
Part 2
After the start of the war, the annual curatorial concept of Eye/View acquired a highly-topical dimension: observing and being observed became situations that now affect everyone to an extraordinary degree. In this selection of Ukrainian video art, the feeling becomes even more menacing in an exploration of memory politics. The videos by Sergey Bratkov, Marina Dykukha, Olia Fedorova, Maksym Khodak and Mykola Ridnyi prove to be a prediction of the war and testify to a life in fear and danger. The gaze structures in the videos revolve around pursuing, monitoring, focusing, remembering, or the unexpected breaking out of the blue. The past plays an important role in the present.
Artists: Sergey Bratkov, Copa & Sordes, Marina Dykukha, Maksym Khodak, Mykola Ridnyi.
Curated by Dr Andrea Domesle.