Workshop Through The Wall

HVOR: UKM-kunstutstillingslokalet på Nitja senter for samtidskunst,
NÅR: lørdag 27. April kl. 13:00 (rett etter kunstutstillingsåpningen kl. 12:00 samme dag)
Krever ingen påmelding i forkant, bare møt opp litt før start
UKM nasjonalt har i år et tema i kunsten som går på Ungdom og Europa, med fokus på det urolige verdensbildet og hvordan det er å være ung i Europa i dag. I den anledning får du under fylkesfestivalen muligheten til å delta på en spennende performance workshop med den ukrainske kunstneren Daria Pugachova, som er på besøk i Norge med en utstilling som vises fram i Nitja parallelt med UKM Akershus. Dette betyr også at workshoppen er engelskspråklig.
NB: VIKTIG INFORMASJON OM VIDERESENDING MED KUNST:
I år sender vi KUN videre kunstnere som deltar i denne workshopen til den nasjonale UKM-festivalen i Bodø. Dette for å rette fokus mot videresending av kunstnere framfor verk. Derfor oppfordrer vi inderlig alle kunstdeltakere til å delta i denne workshoppen.

Om workshoppen:

Through The Wall is a performative workshop led by Ukrainian artist Daria Pugachova that engages with states of fear/freedom through visual and performance art. 

The workshop is based on Daria’s experience of war in Ukraine and communicates both the war that happened in her country and the internal struggles between fear and freedom within each individual. Guided by Daria’s instructions, you are invited to express your Fear through collective drawing, sharing it with others and gaining support from the community. Facing your Fear, you’ll enter the area of Freedom, where you explore this state through voice, body, and simple presence. 

Previous editions of this performance happened in Bulgaria and Croatia, as part of the WE SEE UKRAINE project. A new edition was developed specifically for UKM and its audiences to process the insecurities of young people on this complex journey to adulthood. 

«Performance art and participation offers a playful and soft approach to process these complex emotions and insecurities you might have in life. I invite you to step into the shadowed area of Fear, shed light on it, and embrace it. Because, there, on the other side of the wall, you might find Freedom».

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Daria Pugachova is an multidisciplinary artist, performer and art activist born in Rivne, Ukraine. In her projects, Daria uses participatory practices to unite a community and integrate art into daily life. She works with performance, video and socially engaged arts. From 2013 to 2019 she played drums in a female trio Panivalkova. Daria is a finalist of Circa x Dazed Class and a winner of the Piccadilly Lights Prize; her video ‘Microcosmos’ was shown at Piccadilly Lights in London in 2022. Daria’s latest projects are based on her experience of war. She explores the topic of freedom and limitation, working towards emotional pain and trauma with the voice, body and ritual.