Book Talk: Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance
Portrait photo courtesy of the author. Book cover courtesy of Routledge.
Please join us for a book talk featuring Art Historian, Svitlana Biedarieva discussing her edited volume, Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance, recently published by Routledge. The book traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression.
Contributors explore how transformations of identity, the emergence of participatory democracy, relevant changes to cultural institutions, and the realization of the necessity of decolonial release have influenced the focus and themes of contemporary art practices in Ukraine. The chapters analyze such important topics as the postcolonial retrieval of the past, the deconstruction of post-Soviet visualities, representations of violence and atrocities in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, and the notion of art as a mechanism of civic resistance and identity-building. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern European studies, cultural studies, decolonial theory, and postcolonial studies.
Dr. Biedarieva’s presentation will highlight the artists whose works are featured in the book as well as in the Zimmerli Art Museum's collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art and Arts of Eurasia.
Book Summary: This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression. Contributors explore how transformations of identity, the emergence of participatory democracy, relevant changes to cultural institutions, and the realization of the necessity of decolonial release have influenced the focus and themes of contemporary art practices in Ukraine. Chapters analyze such important topics as the postcolonial retrieval of the past, the deconstruction of post-Soviet visualities, representations of violence and atrocities in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, and the notion of art as a mechanism of civic resistance and identity-building.
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Editor and presenter: Svitlana Biedarieva (Art Historian specializing in Modern and contemporary Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Latin American art)
Additional book contributors: Asia Bazdyrieva, Kateryna Botanova, Kateryna Filyuk, Illia Levchenko, Alisa Lozhkina, Ksenia Nouril, Oleksandra Osadcha, Ewa Sulek, and Jessica Zychowicz, and a preface by Vitaly Chernetsky.