[Cwgrad-announcements] Program Announcement: Two-Part Focus on Ukraine

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Program Announcement: Two-Part Focus on Ukraine
1. Three U.S. artists travel to Kyiv

2. Two Ukrainian artists in residence in Los Angeles

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Three U.S. Artists Travel to Kyiv

In partnership with Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Kyiv, and with
support from The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Outpost has invited
Jeff Cain, Adam Frelin, and Angie Waller to travel to Kyiv in June
2007 to give a presentation of their work and to develop a new artwork
out of the experience, which will be presented in Los Angeles in 2008.


Jeff Cain (based in Los Angeles) plans to collaborate with local
artists to interact with the public on the street to develop a
cultural map of Kyiv. Out of this workshop, he intends to develop an
interactive website that poses as an official governmental branch of
the Ministry of Culture but is in fact a network driven and informed
by its users.  Visit www.shedresearch.net
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 for more information about this artists´ work.

Adam Frelin (based in Albany, NY) will develop a new video work called
"The March." The video, shot entirely in Kyiv and edited and mixed in
New York, will involve members of a Ukrainian marching band playing
their instruments in solitary procession along Kyiv's wide boulevards.
When realized, the piece will evoke ideas about how the past is
experienced in an accelerated present and how individual experience
and collective
action are different sides of the same coin. Visit www.adamfrelin.com
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 for more information about this artists´ work.

Angie Waller (based in New York City) will use this travel opportunity
to continue her investigation into urban progress and political
resistance. In Kyiv, a city famous for the symbolic charge the Orange
Revolution sent throughout the world, not to mention the level of
political engagement it demonstrated among Ukrainians, the artist will
collect and create an archive of photographs that explore the
relationship between
local and global politics in Kyiv.  Visit www.couchprojects.com
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 for more information about this artists´ work.

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Two Ukrainian Artists in Residence in Los Angeles

The Orange Revolution from late November 2004 to January 2005 in
Ukraine marked the beginning of a new political culture and the
emergence of a civil society willing and ready to actively participate
in the democratic process. To date, however, there has been very
little exposure of the sociopolitical and economic changes happening
in Ukraine internationally. Similarly, Ukrainian artists are little
known outside of Moscow.

Therefore, to enhance understanding and appreciation of contemporary
life and art in Ukraine, and to stimulate a cultural exchange of
ideas, perspectives and experience, we have invited Ukrainian artists
Lesja Zajac and Olexander Gnilitsky (a.k.a., Institution of Unstable
Thoughts) to stay and work in Los Angeles for an extended stay during
the fall of 2007.

Olexander Gnilitsky  incorporates painting, video, poetry, drawing,
photography, kinetics, and many other available means and
methodologies into his practice. Lesja Zajac is trained as an animator
and brings her extensive knowledge of new media into the collaborative
projects she realizes with Olexander under the umbrella of the
collective they founded together and with three other members, the
Institution of Unstable Thoughts, which has been active since 1996.
Olexander´s and Lesja´s independent practices are enhanced by their
collaborations. Their ideas are fluid and well served by their adept
use of both traditional and new media.

This residency is supported by The Trust for Mutual Understanding,
Peter Norton Family Foundation, and Pasadena Art Alliance.

For more information about our organization and these programs, please
visit outpost-art.org
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 or contact: info at outpost-art.org [mailto:info at outpost-art.org]


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