ArtsLink Assembly 2024

September 26-27, 2024
In person and livestream
Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine

A two-day gathering of key artists and cultural leaders in Ukraine and those displaced abroad together with key international partner organizations, foundations and supporters in Ukraine’s new and independent cultural space

ArtsLink Assembly: Beyond Greener Grass will share critical ideas, build networks of support, develop implementation plans and initiate a new cultural ecology for Ukraine and its diaspora.

The broad issues are set out in the paper Beyond Greener Grass: strategies towards Ukrainian transnational cultural reconstruction, produced by the Ukrainian Institute and Cedos, Kyiv, in partnership with CEC ArtsLink, New York, and launched in November at the ArtsLink Assembly 2023.

Beyond Greener Grass will be the culmination of a series of workshops for artists and cultural leaders held in three cities in Ukraine and two abroad between March and August 2024. These moderated dialogues will engage the broader artistic community on tools and strategies for Ukraine’s cultural reconstruction, create platforms for ongoing coherent cultural discussion, share knowledges, and add a wider range of artists’ perspectives to the strategic planning.

The Assembly will bring together key artists and cultural leaders to present the outcomes of the workshops – reflections, new issues and ideas, as well as constructive proposals for future action.

All presentations will be accessible through the CEC ArtsLink website, with public events to be livestreamed and archived for broad accessibility.

Partner / Venue in Lviv, Ukraine

ArtsLink Assembly 2024 is organized by CEC ArtsLink in partnership with Jam Factory Art Center. A newly opened independent contemporary art institution in Lviv, Ukraine, Jam Factory plays a key role in reflecting and presenting contemporary processes in Ukrainian and international art and culture, opening opportunities for public dialogue.

LOCATION

ArtsLink Assembly 2024 will be hosted by Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv, Ukraine

Workshop: Lviv, Jam Factory // MARCH 15-16

MODERATORS
Alevtina Kakhidze, Veronika Seleha, Volodymyr Sheiko, Hnat Zabrodskyy

Strengthening cultural community through the open dialogue among artists and cultural workers living in Ukraine and their colleagues displaced by the war
Collaborative approaches to resources
Building interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and transnational connections
Focusing on the narratives of transnational solidarity in fighting the war for the principles of democracy and freedom

PARTICIPANTS
Olena Kasperovych, Yermilov Centre (Kharkiv), Jam Factory, Lviv; Ostap Manuliak, NGO ‘Nurt’, Lviv; Anastasia Manuliak, Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv/Lviv; Iryna Chuzhynova, Ivano-Frankivsk Drama Theatre, Ivano-Frankivsk; Olha Honchar, Museum Crisis Centre, Territory of Terror Museum, Lviv;
Yulia Khomchyn, the Сultural Strategy Institute, Lviv; Oleksandra Kushchenko, art media ArtLvivOnline, Lviv; Yevheniya Nesterovych, NGO PostBellum, Lviv; Vitaliy Matiukhno, gallery ‘Nevidderesh’, Kharkiv, now based in Lviv;
Lyana Mytsko, Lviv Municipal Gallery; Alyona Karavai, contemporary art space and gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk; Bozhena Pelenska, Jam Factory, Lviv; Sophia Lishchynska, Hotkevych Palace, a platform for dance and music artists, Lviv.

The workshop is a CEC ArtsLink project in partnership with Jam Factory Art Center.

Workshop: KYIV, GOETHE INSTITUT, April 26-27

MODERATORS
Veronika Seleha, Volodymyr Sheiko, Hnat Zabrodskyy

The workshop focused on the topics vitally important now to the cultural community of Ukraine as a country at war as well the issues that resonate with artists, art leaders and cultural workers internationally:

Artist communities: importance of cooperation vs competition among diverse practitioners; horizontal networks; solidarity in collective actions; partnerships with municipal structures to support a vibrant cultural field; practicing collaborative approaches to resources
Building cross-regional and transnational connections, particularly with diasporic communities displaced by war
Developing effective strategies to support contemporary artistic practices through education, residencies, and other professional opportunities, in collaboration with international institutions
Supporting decolonial practices in countering colonial narratives

PARTICIPANTS
Dmytro Chepurnyi, Goethe-Institut Kyiv; Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Pinchuk Art Center; Anna Pohribna, Mystetskyi Arsenal; Pavlo Priminov, Vere Music Fund; Kateryna Taylor, artist, curator; Stanislav Turina, artist, curator; Yuriy Kruchak, artist, curator; Natalia Matsenko, curator, author; Bohdana Neborak, journalist, The Ukrainians and Radio Podil; Mariia Volchonok, Ukrainian Institute; Kateryna Radchenko, Odesa Photo Days Festival; Lina Romanukha, artist, curator; Olexander Grebenyuk, artist.

Upcoming Workshops: May 29 in Berlin, June 14-15 in Warsaw

Acknowledgements

Kirby Family Foundation

ArtsLink Assembly 2024 is produced by CEC ArtsLink in partnership with Jam Factory Art Center. Support is provided by the European Cultural Foundation, the Kirby Family Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Livestream is produced and supported by HowlRound.com.