Such forms as performance or dance are not frequent guests in museum institutions. The question of how to preserve and display such art, in particular, in permanent exhibitions, still remains open, and in some places it does not even arise. At the same time, modern artistic processes have long been no longer limited to traditional types, such as painting-graphics-sculpture.
The absence of the latest forms in Ukrainian museum collections not only impoverishes and simplifies the picture of the development of our art, but also preserves the museum as an institution in the (post) Soviet state.
Why do traditional museums avoid showing and collecting dance, performance and other forms of live art? Why does the inertia of Soviet museum practice still persist and how does this affect the presence/absence of modern dance in the context of art? How to preserve and explore forms such as dance? What experience can we rely on? What difficulties and challenges arise in the presentation and museification of living art?
We will discuss these and other questions during our conversation with specialists and researchers who have practical experience in working with live art forms.
The following will take part in the discussion:
🔸Viktor Ruban, choreographer, artist, researcher, cultural researcher, curator of the exhibition “Dance in the war zone?”
🔸Tetyana Rudenko, chief custodian of the Museum of Theater, Music and Film Arts of Ukraine, curator, scenography researcher
🔸Olga Melnyk, head of the department of museum affairs at NKMMK Mystetskyi Arsenal, curator, researcher
🔸Oksana Barshinova, deputy general director of NAMU, curator, researcher of contemporary art
We are waiting for all those interested!
📌August 8 (Thursday) at 4:00 p.m
📌Entrance is free with mandatory prior registration here.
📌 In case of an air raid alert, we ask all visitors to immediately go to the shelter. The nearest shelters are located at street Khreschatyk, 4 (underpass near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station.
📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed at the time of the announcement of the air alert, we will continue the lecture after the end of the alert or another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
❗️ IMPORTANT: You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building. To do this, you need to go around the museum to the right along the Museum lane.
Photo: Serhii Rabchevskyi