Ridne / Rybachka

Standard Deviation x Remote Control pres »Ridne«

20:00

Diana Azzuz & Nazanin Noori

22:00

Katarina Gryvul & Alex Guevara

21:15

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In the first part of the evening, Standard Deviation x Remote Control bring us directly to Ukraine, where people continue to resist Russia’s brutal full-scale war of aggression. This initiative will show their joint project »RIDNE« (Рідне, Ukrainian for »native/dear«), a series of videos shot over the past weeks in various locations in the country. The videos, shot in first-person perspective, were set to music by musicians who are closely connected to the respective place shown in each video, whether it is their own hometown, a personal place of solace, or a place that symbolises something of their own experience of war. In Kyiv, tofudj walks through the ghostly darkness of a city blacked-out by Russian bombing, while Diana Azzuz sets scenes on the border to Poland to music, returning to experiences of her own flight. Mykolaiv native bsw reimagines a walk through the ravaged streets of his city as a quest-like adventure. Odesa’s Undo Despot scores familiar city scenes including her usual beach spot, which no longer feels the same, and Kharkiv-based artist Panghoud guides us through the new realities of his hometown turned battleground.

The second half of the evening belongs to the initiative Rybachka by Borshch magazine editor Mariana Berezovska. The title Rybachka (Рибачка, Ukrainian for »the fisherman's wife«) is borrowed from the poem of the same name by Lina Kostenko, one of Ukraine's most important poets. In it, Kostenko depicts a vivid expression of the state of having to endure persistent uncertainty, between fear and hope, as people in situations of war, crisis, and flight must endure time and again. The project Rybachka aims to bring together artists from different backgrounds in order to deconstruct pain together, to raise awareness of the less obvious consequences of war and violent conflicts, and to search for ways of healing through artistic means. As a first step in this long-term project, two audiovisual performances have been created that seek to decode traumatic experiences in transcultural collaborations and honour the willpower of people who have endured destruction, violence, displacement, or exile due to war and oppression in Ukraine, Iran, and elsewhere.

Musician Katarina Gryvul, who is additionally supported by the SHAPE+-initiative, collaborates with Peruvian multimedia artist Alex Guevara, while Syrian-Ukrainian Diana Azzuz presents her visual work to the music of Iranian musician and artist Nazanin Noori. In these pairings, the artists transcend fear and shock and make new connections between different experiences, potentials, and places.

The evening is designed and presented in collaboration with the project Goethe-Institut in Exile, which aims to provide meeting places, safe spaces, and platforms for cultural workers who can no longer work in their home countries due to war. The initiative aims to maintain spaces for dissent, dialogue, and intercultural exchange for artists and intellectuals from countries where the Goethe-Institut and other international cultural institutions have had to close their doors due to war or censorship.

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»RIDNE« original concept: Remote Control
Conception and site design: Carsten Goertz
Video direction: Kurt Heuvens
Art direction: RAM
Graphic design: Clint Soren, Max Kuwertz
Production manager: Anastasiia Syradoieva
Curation and artist relation: Nastya Zamorskaya
Curatorial director: Paul Georg
Project supervisor: Rouven Brües
Music contributors: Diana Azzuz, Undo Despot, Tofudj, Panghoud, BSW
Operator: Kurt Heuvens

»Rybachka« original concept: Mariana Berezovska

This evening is supported by Goethe-Institut. Katarina Gryvul is furthermore supported by SHAPE+, a platform that is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.