Art in a Time of War. Webinar 7th November

Saturday November 7th: 830 am Vancouver, 9:30 am Edmonton, 11:30 Toronto, 3:30 London, 5:30 Kyiv
(Please double check your local time)

How has the full-scale Russian invasion has impacted artists? How is the situation of artists changed in wartime?

With speakers: Lada Nakonechna, Nikita Kadan, Dr. Jessica Zychowicz

Pre-registration required at: https://us06web.zoom.us/…/register/FbdSMRq3QyKjujBQ7l0Grg

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Lada Nakonechna is an artist, researcher and curator living between Kyiv and Kassel. Her research-based artistic practice examines the relationship between art and structures of power. Since 2005, she has been actively involved in collaborative projects and artist collectives, including the R.E.P. Group and the Method Fund.

Nikita Kadan graduated from National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) in 2007. Nikita Kadan works with installation, sculpture, painting, drawing. He was a member of the artist group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space) and founding member of Hudrada (Artistic Committee), a curatorial and activist collective. Kadan lives in Kyiv. His works were presented at in the Ukrainian Pavilion of the 56th Biennale Venice in 2015.

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz, Phd. is an author and scholar currently serving in an international relations role at UC San Diego. She recently served as Director of Fulbright Ukraine 2021-2022. She is a Board member of the US Fulbright Alumni Association and specializes in visual culture, cultural history, and post-Soviet studies. She earned her doctorate at University of Michigan and BA at University of California Berkeley.