01.08.2023
# Dzherelo project space
June 24, at C.Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts Dresden
screening, performance, talks by Kvirtet collective + Dana Kosmina
Main focus of Dzherelo is to showcase contemporary video-art & performance & experimental music open to the public 24/7. During the dark times when Kyiv space could not take a risk to host the public due to massive Russian attacks – The Source starts to look for safe spaces for free expression and raise awareness of cultural exchange.
Nomadic Source arrives on 24.06.2023 at C. Rockefeller Center for the Arts with the special program. You will have a unique chance to discover Ukrainian queer multimedia-artist Plisetskiy and a performative collective Kvirtet.
The program will begin with Vladyslav Plisetskiy film screening and online discussion with Dana Kosmina. The film will infect the viewer with the spirit of resilience and give strength to survive by showcasing voices of Kyiv underground resistance from the streets, artist studios till the night clubs – »What You will do when the War starts?« The continuation of the evening by Kvirtet collective will envelop you in a total visual-audio performance. Dramaturgie builds on a unique poem written by Boji in 2023, describing her childhood hallucination (of giant roll twists), combined with the collective members’ vivid dreams, which slowly grow in a unified joint queer-mare – »One by one«.
Construction VIII festival
»Construction« is a festival of new media and audiovisual art in the urban space. The project turns to the real and visible image of Dnipro city, opens a new look at the peculiarities of the city and devotes attention to the joint: space, responsibility, history and the future. The festival combines the themes of socio-cultural development and urban development, aiming to impart dialogue on the creative needs of people living in a post industrial city.
In 2023, the festival is planned to be held in Dnipro, Dresden and Glasgow, thus supporting the communities in Dnipro, while at the same time spreading Ukrainian culture abroad and providing an opportunity for Ukrainian artists and sound artists to bring their work to a wider audience.
Construction VIII festival landing page – https://shapeplatform.eu/festival/construction/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/constructionfestival
Construction festival edition Dresden is organized by Kultura Medialna NGO in cooperation with Netzwerk | Medien | Kunst Dresden, CYNETART, villa\wigman, C.Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts Dresden, and objekt klein a.
Co-funded by the European Union, and City of Dresden, Department of Culture and Tourism.
# Dzherelo project space
June 24, at C.Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts Dresden
What You will do when the War starts? – film screening – in moderation and discussion of Dana Kosmina
The film by Vladyslav Plisetskiy will infect the viewer with the spirit of resilience and give strength to survive this difficult battle-period that we are all going through together – “What You will do when the War starts?”.
One by one – musical performance – by Kvirtet collective
The performance »One by one« is built on the poem written by Boji in 2023, describing her childhood’s hallucination (of the giant roll twists), combined with the collective members’ vivid dreams, which slowly grows into their unified joint nightmare.
What You will do when the War starts? – film screening – in moderation and discussion of Dana Kosmina
»Brave history by an anarchist & art-soldier Plisetskiy, from Ukraine, about unbreakable Kyiv Underground foudations.«
year: 2023, duration: 33minFilm director: Vladyslav Plisetskiy
Production: Dzherelo – Kosmina
First missiles are falling on Kyiv, first sirens are singing and first video documentation shots are taken by the guardian angel of the Kyiv underground. In the moment of an absolute common tragedy on 24.02.2022 the brave anarchic-soldier Plisetskiy takes his camera to defend the free spirit of his home-town and community.
There is no place for the tears when you are facing your enemy. Power of self-organization and usage of any tools available to defend humanity from the »Z – virus« are fundamental.
During 2022-23 Ukrainian community is on the battlefields, workshop-studios, clubs, galleries, underground stations … literally everywhere are doing their best to save all EU continent from a bloody dictatorship.
The film by Vladyslav Plisetskiy will infect the viewer with the spirit of resilience and give strength to survive this difficult battle-period that we are all going through together – »What You will do when the War starts?«.
https://dzherelo.online/projects/what-you-will-do-when-the-war-starts
Conceptual Trailer (2023) https://vimeo.com/802126769
discussion with Dana Kosmina
Vladyslav Plisetskiy
Plisetskiy, born in 1999 in OTEL’ . From 2018 resident of Kyiv club Otel. In 2020 participant of the online marathon dedicated to the International Day against Homophobia with performance »Queen of Golden Rain«. In 2020 design of costume “The Last Crusade« dedicated to the closing of the Crest Club. Presented his first performance »Fuck why I don’t see your changes bitch fucking pelt« on Coming Out of Isolation 2.0, a long-term project of the IZOLYATSIA Foundation and the NGO »KyivPride«, with the help of modern art contributes to the visibility of LGBT+ people, their full and equal inclusion in public life in 2020. In 2020 Plisetskiy created the costume specially for the »Queer Gathering« on February 14 the iconic club Zhivot Kharkiv. In 2020 created the costume »Two-meter piece of shit« specially for the iconic Kyiv party series Osnova at Club Otel. Plisetskiy first urban performance at the exhibition opening »Violence: Everything Against You« in 2021. Personal Exhibition »Mold-Kid« curated by Wet-Hole in 2021-2022.
Dana Kosmina
Works as an independent architect and creative director 4_Ukraine & Humanity Worldwide .
–Born in 1990 in Kyiv. Kosmina is an architect and artist living and working in Berlin and Kyiv. In 2017 entered HUDRADA (Artistic committee) curatorial and activist group. Since 2017 started her own multidisciplinary practice to change the perspectives of Ukrainian public architecture. Significant realized projects by Kosmina are: renovation of »Dovzhenko Center« the largest Ukrainian State Film Archive, realization of the »Shcherbenko art center«, collaborations with electronic music scene on public space design such as Closer, Brave Factory, Rhythm Buro, Bassiani. From 2018 cooperate with the urban collective METASITU is devoted to the exploration of new spatial pedagogies. From 2019 is a co-founder and curator of a self-organized exhibition space in a formal postmodernist pavilion »Dzherelo« (The Source) in Kyiv, dedicated to urban transformations by video-art, performance & experimental music. In 2020 represented »The hotel, the sanatorium, the pension and their refugee’s rooms« in the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial »What Do We Have In Common«. At 59th Venice Biennale Kosmina represented the spacial installation »Piazza Ucrania«.
One by one
artists: Boji Moroz, Dim, Dimettra, Sasha Malyuk
KVIRTET is a queer collective from Kyiv, Ukraine. Unifying the artistic, performative, singing and fashion backgrounds of the four members, Kvirtet provides spectacular contemporary shows. Collective’s performances feature live music, marvelous dresses and magnificent vocals in Ukrainian and English. As a consequence of Russia’s full- scale invasion of Ukraine, Kvirtet is now based in Berlin, but remains active throughout Europe.
https://www.instagram.com/kvirtet.collective
»One by one«
Kvirtet will present a musical performance »One by one«.
The performance is built on the poem written by Boji in 2023, describing her childhood’s hallucination (of the giant roll twists), combined with the collective members’ vivid dreams, which slowly grows into their unified joint nightmare.
Boji
Boji is a queer multimedia artist and musician originally from Kyiv, where she debuted with her first album “Impulse”, soon came into the Kyiv night culture scene through her full concert programs in cult Kyiv clubs. Boji in their artistic practice infinitely explores contemporary arts in different mediums : video-art, installation, performance.
https://www.instagram.com/boji_com
Sasha Malyuk
Sasha Malyuk is Kyiv-born multimedia fashion artist, working on upcycled haute couture. The body is a canvas for materials that have been salvaged, ripped and torn apart and then pieced back together. Emerging from this process are provocatively immersive whilst touching performative shows that are beyond the common fashion.
https://www.instagram.com/malyuk.couture
Dimettra
Dimettra, born in Dnipro and established in Kyiv, is an extravagant performer and singer. After being relocated to Berlin, Dimetra works as personal fashion designer for „studio Vestbirk“ (Courtesy dj) and runs her emerging fashion brand “dimmettra.apparel”.
https://www.instagram.com/dimmettra
Dim
Dim is a queer multimedia artist, originally from Drohobych, Ukraine. Their practice, from tattooing and painting to performance and sculpture, explores inner tenderness and fragility as a queer Ukrainian in times of war. Dim’s art is permeated with psychedelic patterns and colors, grim forms and creatures and different body perspectives to find a way how to express their true self.
https://www.instagram.com/idydodomu