Curated by Valeriia Buradzhyieva
The program includes nine performances representing a wide range of performative practices – from body-oriented performances (Stanislav Turina, Natalia Lisova, Rita Lira, Danilo Zubkov, Anna Shevchenko) to hybrid formats: extended cinema (Max Svitlo and Salt Salome), relational art (Variable Name), theatrical reading (Valeria Shiller and Zhenya Stepanenko. The performances will be accompanied by an educational program – a lecture by Larisa Venediktova on how to watch a performance, a workshop by Yarina Shumskaya on how to create one, as well as a public podcast recording with director Ilya Razumeyk about theater outside the theater – as a building and as an institution.
This is thesteinstudio’s first comprehensive attempt to explore how a studio that primarily works with visual art can become a medium for performative practices. The relationship between performer and viewer takes on different forms, and the blurring between them occurs not only formally, but also contextually – raising the question of what the space in which the performance takes place is like. The performative is played out here at the intersection of institutional openness and the intimacy of the studio, hidden in a residential courtyard, which from time to time also becomes a stage. The program explores how the space of the studio and the surrounding space change under the influence of the performative gesture, and how the gesture itself is integrated into the architecture, atmosphere and social contexts of the place.
Schedule:
May 7: Public recording of the podcast with Ilya Razumeyk
May 9: Zhenya Stepanenko and Valeria Shiller “Cancelled Love”
May 11: Lecture by Larisa Venediktova “Decoding Performance. How to Watch?”
May 13-14: Yarina Shumska's Workshop "PERFORMANCE: Movement, Gesture, Action, Sign"
May 15: Anna Shevchenko "Empty Form"
May 18: Natalia Lisova "Moment"
May 23: Rita Lira "THE TRAP"
May 25: Stanislav Turina "Here - There"
May 30: Variable Name "Light for Their Own"
May 31: Max Svitlo and Salt Salome "Signs for Those Born on Earth: Horse, Rider and Chronic Apocalypse"
June 1: Danilo Zubkov "Dance with a Drone"
The project is implemented with the support of the Ukrainian-Danish Youth House