{"id":115741,"date":"2022-10-25T07:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaunas2022.eu\/?page_id=115741"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:44:52","slug":"ukraine-unmuted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaunas2022.eu\/en\/ukraine-unmuted\/","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE! UNMUTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;1&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;1&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; el_class=&#8221;common-grid-wa&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;141895&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; el_id=&#8221;grid-com&#8221; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#78afde&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;light&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; align_medium=&#8221;align_left_tablet&#8221; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;209887&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image media=&#8221;115727&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;157186&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;1&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; el_class=&#8221;common-grid-wa&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;539137&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; el_id=&#8221;grid-com&#8221; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#78afde&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;light&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; align_medium=&#8221;align_left_tablet&#8221; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;209887&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;213234&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 4 \u2013 December 4 the fifth Ukrainian contemporary art triennial \u201eUkrainian Cross-Section 2022. UKRAINE! UNMUTED\u201c is presented at Kaunas central post office. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year 17 artworks are presented by Ukrainian artists from Dnipro, Kherson, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa and Donetsk. The exposition invites visitors to discover video works, installations and objects, paintings, graphics, photographic works and a performance. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The triennial lasting for one month not only presents the exhibition, but also a performance, public disccusions and also a book of essays. All the events attempt to disclosure what Ukrainian art was and what it is now, letting the art speak for itself. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; align_horizontal=&#8221;align_right&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;143789&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1666179403667{padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;115712&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160125&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;1&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;1&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; el_class=&#8221;common-grid-wa&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;556601&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; el_id=&#8221;grid-com&#8221; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#fcdc2d&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; position_vertical=&#8221;middle&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;light&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; align_medium=&#8221;align_left_tablet&#8221; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;219640&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1668157348711{padding-right: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;115705&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;177619&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][uncode_vertical_text vertical_text_h_pos=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;900&#8243; text_space=&#8221;fontspace-112704&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;121241&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AUTHORS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>[\/uncode_vertical_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;155137&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1666680780596{border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yana Bachynska, Lia Dostlieva ir Andrii Dostliev, Kostiantyn Zorkin, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Nikolay Karabinovych, Myro Klochko ir Anatoliy Tatarenko, Sasha Kurmaz, Katya Libkind, Kateryna Lysovenko, Pavlo Makov, Sergiy Petlyuk, Viacheslav Poliakov, Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy, Fantastic Little Splash (Lera Malchenko ir Oleksandr Hants), Stanislav Turina, Volodymyr Kaufman (in collaboration with Maksym Mazur, Serhiy Savchenko, Yana Krykun, Sergiy Radkevych, Natalka Shymin, Natalia Lisova).<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][uncode_vertical_text vertical_text_h_pos=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;900&#8243; text_space=&#8221;fontspace-112704&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;736932&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CURATORS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>[\/uncode_vertical_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;180122&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1666680883863{border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volodymyr Kaufman, Serhiy Petlyuk<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][uncode_vertical_text vertical_text_h_pos=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;900&#8243; text_space=&#8221;fontspace-112704&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;104040&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EXHIBITION IS OPEN<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>[\/uncode_vertical_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;135278&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1666681063865{border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>From Tuesday to Sunday \u2013 10AM to 6PM and on Thursday \u2013 11AM to 7PM<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;1&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; el_class=&#8221;common-grid-wa&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;549992&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; el_id=&#8221;grid-com&#8221; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#78afde&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;light&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; align_medium=&#8221;align_left_tablet&#8221; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;209887&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;753362&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CALENDAR OF EVENTS ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION:<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=&#8221;2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;590585&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PERFORMANCE \u201cPATH\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;120371&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 4th, 4PM<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Kaunas central post office<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artists explore the inner state of human in a time of the war. Ukrainians live in a constant state of temporary displacement. Long months of internal immobility have taught them to continue doing things as before, but the feeling of standing still has not disappeared.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The artist of the performance: Volodymyr KAUFMAN, Natalija LISOVA, Iurijus \u0160TAIDA, Yaryna SHUMSKA, Volodymyr TOPIY.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;116786&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1666179637446{padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;115718&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;298665&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;103073&#8243; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#78afde&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;631323&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TOURS WITH CURATORS<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;191630&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>November 5th, 1 PM<\/strong> tour with curator Volodymyr Kaufman, in Ukrainian language.<br \/>\n<strong>November 5th, 4 PM<\/strong>\u00a0tour with curator Serhiy Petlyuk, in English language.<br \/>\nParticipation is free of charge, but due to limited places the registration is required by filling this <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/cuq4MxxuyohWtLGh7\">registration form<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;164433&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW81058272 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW81058272 BCX4\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"heading 4\">DISCUSSIONS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;203858&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>November 10th, 11th, 24th and 26th<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the discussions are in English language, broadcasted live on \u201cKaunas 2022\u201d Facebook page. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participation at the discussions is free of charge, but registration is required by filling in the <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/euAMmNLG9Xm344j26\">registration form<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;1&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; el_class=&#8221;common-grid-wa&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;199163&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221; el_id=&#8221;grid-com&#8221; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-solid&#8221; back_color_solid=&#8221;#78afde&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;light&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color=&#8221;color-jevc&#8221; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; align_medium=&#8221;align_left_tablet&#8221; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;209887&#8243; border_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;]<div class=\"cq-expandgrid cq-circular-nocircular cq-expandgrid-240 cq-expandgrid-avatar- cq-expandgrid-close-yes cq-expandgrid-in4  vc_custom_1667213515452\" data-itemheight=\"\" data-autoslide=\"no\" data-itemsize=\"240\" data-transparentitem=\"yes\" data-openfirst=\"yes\" data-labelfontsize=\"\" data-nocircular=\"nocircular\" data-subfontsize=\"\" data-scrollto=\"\" data-scrolloffset=\"0\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-item cq-expandgrid-initstate customized\" data-image=\"\" data-bgstyle=\"customized\" data-backgroundcolor=\"#fcdc2d\" data-backgroundhovercolor=\"\" data-avatartype=\"none\" data-avatar=\"\" data-contentcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-iconcolor=\"\" data-iconsize=\"\" data-labelcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-subtitlecolor=\"#ffffff\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-face cq-expandgrid-toggle\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-facecontent\"><span class=\"cq-expandgrid-title\">November 10th<\/span> <span class=\"cq-expandgrid-subtitle\">Discovering Ukraine (from outside and from inside)<\/span> <\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-arrow\" style=\"border-bottom:15px solid #fcdc2d\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-content\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-text\"><h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 10th, 4 PM<br \/>\nBLC business centre, Donelai\u010dio g. 60, Building A<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Discovering\u202fUkraine (from outside and from inside)<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ukraine is still something\u202fto be explained for many, and while it appeared on the maps as an independent country more than thirty years ago, it took some time for most people to get an idea of what Ukraine was, some got it earlier, and some looked closely just recently. The dynamic is an interesting issue, but not only abroad: many Ukrainians needed to take their time too. Both for Ukrainians and for foreigners, Ukraine is also an idea and an intellectual adventure. Our speakers came from very different places, and they have very different experiences in regard to Ukraine, but a lot in common to conceptualize it. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Carl Henrik Fredriksson\u202fis<\/strong> a Swedish author, editor, and translator living in Vienna, Austria. Co-founder and, from 2001 to 2015, editor-in-chief of\u202fEurozine.\u202fFormer editor-in-chief of Sweden\u2019s oldest cultural journal\u202fOrd&amp;Bild. He is an\u202fauthor of numerous publications on literature, art, philosophy, media and politics. He is a Permanent\u202fFellow at the Institute for Media and Communication Policy (Institut f\u00fcr Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik) in Berlin and the Programme Director of\u202fDebates on\u202fEurope, a cooperation between the S. Fischer Foundation and the German Academy for Language and Literature. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Vakhtang Kebuladze\u202fis<\/strong> a\u202fUkrainian philosopher, writer, and expert in translations of philosophy texts. His own translations of German philosophy to Ukrainian include books by Husserl and Nitzsche. While\u202fVakhtang is a\u202fco-chairman of Ukrainian Phenomenological Society, and a Professor at Kyiv Shevchenko university,\u202fa member of editorial boards of academic journals\u202fin Ukraine and other\u202fEuropean\u202fcountries, his essays gained popularity far beyond academia,\u202fand his book was awarded by PEN-Ukraine. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the discussions are in English language, broadcasted live on \u201cKaunas 2022\u201d Facebook page. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participation at the discussions is free of charge, but registration is required by filling in the <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/euAMmNLG9Xm344j26\">registration form<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><i class=\"fa fa-close cq-expandgrid-close\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-item cq-expandgrid-initstate customized\" data-image=\"\" data-bgstyle=\"customized\" data-backgroundcolor=\"#fcdc2d\" data-backgroundhovercolor=\"\" data-avatartype=\"none\" data-avatar=\"\" data-contentcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-iconcolor=\"\" data-iconsize=\"\" data-labelcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-subtitlecolor=\"#ffffff\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-face cq-expandgrid-toggle\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-facecontent\"><span class=\"cq-expandgrid-title\">November 11th<\/span> <span class=\"cq-expandgrid-subtitle\">Dancing with Empire, Falling for Empire<\/span> <\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-arrow\" style=\"border-bottom:15px solid #fcdc2d\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-content\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-text\"><h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 11th, 4 PM<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kaunas bus station, Vytauto pr. 24<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dancing with Empire, Falling for Empire<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A lot was said about how long it takes and how difficult it is for a colonized to get back their agency and to change their perspective, and how long a shadow an empire casts. Empires stay with us even after we have survived and overcome them, and not only as nightmares, but also as a part of who we are, as an aftertaste both toxic and sweet. Our speakers Jacek Dehnel and Iaroslava Strikha were exploring that in their\u202fworks, literary\u202fand academic respectively. Together they will try to conceptualize\u202fthe\u202fimperial\u202fcharm and how it works for\u202fart in\u202four part of the world.\u202f <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jacek Dehnel<\/strong> is a Polish poet, writer, translator, and painter. His first collection of poems was the last book recommended by the Polish Nobel Prize winner, Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">A prolific author of nine books of poems, five novels, a few collections of short prose, columns and essays, Dehnel has also translated works of (among others) Philip Larkin, Henry James, Edmund White, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, J.M. Coetzee. His own works were translated into over a dozen of languages, and in English are available his two novels, Saturn and Lala, and the two volumes of a crime series he writes with his husband, Piotr Tarczynski, under a pen name Maryla Szymiczkowa (Mrs Mohr Goes Missing and Karolina or the Torn Curtain), and a selection of poems Aperture. Lala is available also in Lithuanian and &#8211; along with Saturn, Matka Makryna and Krivoklat &#8211; in Ukrainian. Dehnel has been awarded literary prizes that include the Ko\u015bcielski Award and the Paszport \u201ePolityki\u201d and nominated to many others. Since 2020 he and his husband live in Berlin. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Iaroslava Strikha<\/strong> is a literary translator and literary scholar. She\u202fholds a PhD from Harvard University (2017), and developed and taught courses on contemporary Ukrainian culture and on Eastern European\u202fliterary modernism at the Department of Slavic Languages and <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Literatures at Harvard in 2022. Her translation of\u202fBehind the Scenes\u202fat the Museum\u202fby Kate Atkinson received the Best Book Award of the Lviv Book Forum as the best translation in 2018. Her interests as a\u202fliterary scholar include Ukrainian literature of the late 19th through\u202fthe early 20th century, trauma studies, modernism in Yiddish\u202fliterature, graphic novels and intersemiotic translations. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the discussions are in English language, broadcasted live on \u201cKaunas 2022\u201d Facebook page. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participation at the discussions is free of charge, but registration is required by filling in the <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/euAMmNLG9Xm344j26\">registration form<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><i class=\"fa fa-close cq-expandgrid-close\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-item cq-expandgrid-initstate customized\" data-image=\"\" data-bgstyle=\"customized\" data-backgroundcolor=\"#fcdc2d\" data-backgroundhovercolor=\"\" data-avatartype=\"none\" data-avatar=\"\" data-contentcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-iconcolor=\"\" data-iconsize=\"\" data-labelcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-subtitlecolor=\"#ffffff\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-face cq-expandgrid-toggle\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-facecontent\"><span class=\"cq-expandgrid-title\">November 24th<\/span> <span class=\"cq-expandgrid-subtitle\">Voices from the Underground: Artists Behind the Iron Curtain<\/span> <\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-arrow\" style=\"border-bottom:15px solid #fcdc2d\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-content\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-text\"><h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 24th, 3:30 AM<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VDU Leonidas Donskis Library, V. Putvinskio g. 23, I floor, Kaunas<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Voices from the Underground: Artists Behind the Iron Curtain <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One might think that the term &#8220;underground&#8221; was on its way to art history, but in 2022 it gets a new meaning. Concerts and festivals in the basements and metro stations in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and even Lviv are also a good reason to look a couple of decades back: did the artists of the past get proper credit after the end of the Cold War? What does their legacy mean today for our part of the world? Our speakers may help to outline the frame of numerous discussions we have ahead of\u202fus: on freedom, resistance, and Iron Curtains of the future.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Katherine Younger<\/strong> is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna), where she runs the projects Ukraine in European Dialogue and Documenting Ukraine. She received her PhD in History from Yale University in 2018. Her research concentrates on practices of international politics, forms of imperial governance, and the relationship between religion and power. Most recently, she edited\u202fThe Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident\u202fby Myroslav Marynovych (University of Rochester Press, 2021).<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Prof. Habil. Dr. Gintautas Ma\u017eeikis<\/strong>. The head of Centre of social and political critique at VMU, philosopher. The sphere of interests is Critical theory of symbolical thinking, which includes Critique of propaganda, occultism, cultural industries and social politics.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moderated by <strong>Oksana Forostyna<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the discussions are in English language, broadcasted live on \u201cKaunas 2022\u201d Facebook page.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participation at the discussions is free of charge, but registration is required by filling in the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/euAMmNLG9Xm344j26\">registration form.<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><i class=\"fa fa-close cq-expandgrid-close\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-item cq-expandgrid-initstate customized\" data-image=\"\" data-bgstyle=\"customized\" data-backgroundcolor=\"#fcdc2d\" data-backgroundhovercolor=\"\" data-avatartype=\"none\" data-avatar=\"\" data-contentcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-iconcolor=\"\" data-iconsize=\"\" data-labelcolor=\"#ffffff\" data-subtitlecolor=\"#ffffff\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-face cq-expandgrid-toggle\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-facecontent\"><span class=\"cq-expandgrid-title\">November 26th<\/span> <span class=\"cq-expandgrid-subtitle\">How To Show the Invisible<\/span> <\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-arrow\" style=\"border-bottom:15px solid #fcdc2d\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-content\" style=\"background-color: #fcdc2d\"><div class=\"cq-expandgrid-text\"><h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 26th, 12 AM<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kaunas central post office, Laisves al. 102, Kaunas<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How To Show the Invisible<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One may say that all cultures are equal, but who would say that all cultures are equally perceived, known, and admired? How to be interesting if your culture missed (partly or totally) the 19th century race for being a part of the cultural canon? Two speakers are on a mission to show their cultures to the world where cultural hierarchies are being reproduced faster than being undermined, and attention is the new scarce resource.\u202f <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pawel Potoroczyn<\/strong> is educational and cultural chief executive with in-depth knowledge on international educational and cultural resources and trends, established cultural and business relations. He is also experienced music, theatre and film producer with several international awards to his credit. He has spent 15 years on top diplomatic posts, representing Poland \u202fin the US (Los Angeles, New York) and in the UK (London), and accumulated extensive expertise in cultural diplomacy with a broad and established network among world\u2019s best cultural and educational institutions, and got a proven track record of using societal and educational values as a powerful medium for cross-cultural dialogue. Diplomat, author, public intellectual, speaker, producer and executive. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Volodymyr Sheiko<\/strong> is director of the Ukrainian Institute, Ukraine\u2019s cultural diplomacy organisation that develops cultural relations between Ukraine and other countries and promotes better understanding of Ukraine internationally. During 2007\u20132018 Volodymyr worked at the British Council as Arts Director for Ukraine, marketing and communications manager; and arts programme manager for 15 countries of South-East Europe and Central Asia. He has produced, programmed, organised or otherwise contributed to over 200 arts, culture, and communications projects and events in 15 European countries: art exhibitions, artistic residencies, film festivals and screenings, expert discussions, music concerts, literature projects, training workshops, conferences, theatre performances, communications campaigns etc.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Gintar\u0117 Masteikait\u0117<\/strong> is a cultural leader and performing arts producer. Since 2017, she has been working as director of the Lithuanian Dance Information Centre and artistic director of the festival \u201cNew Baltic Dance\u201d, the largest international dance festival in the Baltic region. In 2019, she founded and started organizing the international performing arts festival \u201cConTempo\u201d in Kaunas and Kaunas district (part of Kaunas 2022 program). For 17 years, she has been actively working in the field of cultural management, cultural representation and internationalization. The main areas of activity: development of contemporary dance and circus, initiation and management of projects, active international activities related to the presentation of Lithuania\u2019s productions abroad and productions from abroad in Lithuania, initiation and implementation of international projects, production of contemporary dance, professional development of young representatives of the performing arts field. 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