2017 Art center "Suputnik" - Kiyv

Visual part of

Second International

Parajanov Festival in Levandivka.

International art residence “Shadow of Freedom” at the International Parajanov Festival in Levandivka (Ukraine), 20-27 Aug 2017

20-27 August, 2017

II Parajanov International Festival in Levandivka

Held in the post-industrial, multiethnic suburbs of Lviv In Cultural - Art center "Sputnik".

Dream Projects co-founder, art curator Victoria Danelyan implemented the audio-visual installation "Violence - 340", and curate an art residency "Shade of Freedom", whithin the framework of the festival with Polish curator Sarmen Beglarian ”Biuro Wystaw”, Polish Modern Art Foundation

Artists: Mateusz Kowalczyk (Pl), Grzegorz Kozera (Pl), Sergey Shabohin (BY),

Bazinato (Bazil) (BY), Zhanna Gladko (BY), Olga Salakheyeva (BY), Pavel Nekhaev (BY), Meki Giorgadze (GE), Nastya Kulik (UA), Maria Magoly (UA), Anastasia Kulik (UA)

“Violence” and made visual part of the festival.

The Parajanov Festival was organized by the Culture Department of the Lviv City Council and Dream Projects.

Dream Projects acted as the initiator of the festival idea.

Partners: the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, The Ernst Schering Foundation Program and MitOst Association, Polish Modern Art Foundation.

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Curator of Visual part

Victoria Danelian

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Meet the participants of the International Residence "Shadow of Freedom" at the II Paradzhanov Festival in Levandivka.

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About artists

A video of the performance of the resident-shaman Mateusz Kowalczyk

Дискусія з кураторами резиденції "Тінь свободи", Вікторією Данелян (також куратором візуальної частини фестивалю) та Сарменом Бегларяном, в рамках ІІ Міжнародного Фестивалю Параджанова на Левандівці (Львів, 2017). Закриття фестивалю.

Дискусія з кураторами резиденції "Тінь свободи", Вікторією Данелян (також куратором візуальної частини фестивалю) та Сарменом Бегларяном, в рамках ІІ Міжнародного Фестивалю Параджанова на Левандівці (Львів, 2017). Закриття фестивалю. (Частина друга)

While we were waiting for today's arrival of our residents, the curator Viktoria Danelyan had been working on a visual part of II International Parajanov Festival in Levandivka, particularly on a project, which includes works by Erna Dolmazova (Georgia). What is this? It's a secret for now! :) Visit the opening of the festival today and follow the news on our and festival's facebook pages.

Victoria Danelyan presented her multimedia installation “Violence-340” in the framework of visual part of the II International Parajanov Festival in Levandivka. The project is a spatial game with a viewer's perception, when public, wandering between works of Erna Dalmazova, which are suspended in the air, step by step gets deeper into the aura of the tragicomedy of the trial of Parajanov.

During one of his interviews (Paris, Nov. 9, 1988, archive of F. Salkazanova) Sergiy Parajanov recoled his sentence, in which he was accused of raping 340 members of Central Committee of the CPSU. Speaking ironicaly about this, he mentioned an Italian article with the title “Parajanov got 300 communists to fall for him”. When Yuriy Lyubimov became familiar with the contents of the Parajanov's sentence, he said that he was going to stage a show based on this story at Comedie Francaise.

Visual part of the installation, which is presented by photo portraits of members of Central Committee of the CPSU (some of them are covered by graphics by Erna Dalmazova), is strengthened by audio, which is, for its part, composed of: Mendelssohn's Wedding March, the record of the plenary of Central Committee of the CPSU and the above-mentioned interview. And the culmination of the spatial composition is marked by symbolic icon of a bride (also by Erna Dolmazova), whose face is made up of cut out eyes of those same portraits.

Participants of the project:
Victoria Danelyan
Author of the installation “Violence-340”.
Curator, consultant in arts and cultural management, conducts psyhoanalytic practice.
The co-founder of Interdisciplinary Center of Art and Culture Development “Dream Projects” (Ukraine - Geargia) and “Dream museum” (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Tetiana Tsvilodub
Author of the audio accompaniment of the installation “Violence-340”.
Curator, art critic, lecturer, conducts psyhoanalytic practice.
The co-founder of Interdisciplinary Center of Art and Culture Development “Dream Projects” (Ukraine - Geargia) and “Dream museum” (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Erna Dolmazova
Author of the visual part of the installation “Violence-340”.
Giorgian artist.
Studied Arts at Nikoladze Art College.
Main fields of artistic practice: painting, collage, assemblage.
Lives and works in Tbilisi (Georgia).