Scattered Communities: results of the open call for the third round of the program
“Scattered Communities” is a program for artists who have remained in Ukraine or left due to the war. For the third time, we are supporting collective works by artists who, despite/through borders, reflect on the diversity of experiences, migration, and the ruptures within communities.
In total, the open call received 74 proposals from artistic duos and ad-hoc collectives scattered across various countries, 11 of which were shortlisted. From this shortlist, three artistic projects were supported—financially, in terms of content, and through communication—that model artistic collaboration at a distance amid divided communities and realities where some members of this artistic generation may never meet in person. So:
- GO.RA and Vita Kotyk will explore the mechanisms of transmitting artistic practice across distances. The project examines issues of authorship, delegated responsibility, and trust, and is focused on collaborating with artists whose practice has been interrupted or slowed down. This will function not only as a research platform but also as a tool for reactivating artistic practices—together with other participants, an open archive of the process will be created, featuring instructions and work-in-progress.
- Hanna Vinogradova and Anastasia Dzyuban will work on a new iteration of the performance “When Everything Is Falling Apart, I Hold Onto the Pole,” which will become a collective piece. Together, the artists will generate a fictional situation in a strip club—through asynchronous interaction in physical work and the intimate presence of the audience as a laboratory of closeness. The central focus of the project is the search for practices of pleasure and strategies for viewing pleasure as a resource, the body as an argument, and vitality as a form of resistance.
- Sasha Kurmaz and Oleksandr Burlaka construct a dialogue—both from the outside and from within—about the diversity of experiences in Ukraine and beyond through the visual language of photography based on the principle of double exposure. Formally, this is an homage to Borys Mykhailov’s series “Yesterday’s Sandwich” (1960–1970), which the artists reinterpret using their own photographs taken in various countries and contexts where they physically reside.
The artworks will be created over the coming months and will be presented in various forms by the end of summer.
We thank all those who applied for their time and willingness to engage in potentially difficult dialogues. You can follow the news of the program on the social networks of Insha Osvita and Asortymentna Kimnata.
The “Scattered Communities” program is implemented by Asortymentna Kimnata and Insha Osvita with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
