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Art Prospect Intensive

The program of educational residences aimed at the exchange of expertise and development of innovative methods in socially engaged art

Art Prospect Intensive

Odesa, Ukraine
October 7 – October 26, 2019

Educational program Art Prospect Intensive was directed at exchange of expertise and development of innovative methods to facilitate collaboration between artists, social organizations, and the community to address local problems and issues. The program that had form of educational residence included intensive seminars by experienced international artists and curators in the field of social practice art as well as practical workshops resulting in collaborative projects in partnership with social organizations, initiatives and cultural institutions in Odesa.

The program consisted of two components: theoretical and practical.  The theoretical component included seminars and workshops led by experienced international artists and curators as well as site visits and meetings with activists, researchers and social and arts organizations, creatively addressing socio-political issues and engaging local communities in Odesa and Chisinau.  During the two-week practical component in Odesa, project participants, under the supervision of international experts,  conducted collaborative projects with local organizations and initiatives. The international experts became the curators of the projects.

 

The main topics of the program:

  • Beyond Museum Walls:  how museums expand beyond their institutional buildings and transform audience members into participants; how artists can become a part of this process and help museums more effectively communicate with the public and strengthen the role of the museum in urban development.
  • Memory: what the strategies of collective forgetting are used for erasing of uncomfortable history, and what methods can artist propose for comprehending the traumatic experience connected with certain place and bringing the lost location back to the city map.
  • Good-neighborliness: how artists transform public spaces and work with city residents to build a sense of community and encourage good-neighborliness and social responsibility.

Art Prospect Intensive Organizers: CEC ArtsLink in a collaboration with Open Place Platform for Interdisciplinary Practice (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Oberliht Association (Chisinau, Moldova).

Partners in Odesa: Impact Hub Odessa, Dvor-Scena, Bleschunov Odesa Municipal Museum of Personal Collections, Odessa Fine Arts Museum, Museum of Odessa Modern Art

Events in the frame of the project:

Public discussion
Art and communities
About the role of art in forming of the communities
October 8, 2019
Lecture
Kendal Henry
The Social Impact of Art in the Public Environment
October 18, 2019
Lecture
Anna Kharsani
Experiencing art within, alongside, and away from the museum
October 19, 2019
Public presentation
Art Prospect Intensive
The presentation of the results of the educational residence in Odesa
October 26, 2019
The Art Prospect Intensive. Odesa

Selected works

The Museum of the Wind
Bohdana Voytenko
A mobile platform for self-expression and reflection
Bohdana Voytenko together with Odessa residents and participants in the Art Prospect Intensive program was looking for the answer to the question of how the Museum of the Wind could look like. The issues of ecology, politics, wind exploitation, emotional state and coexistence with the winds were presented in this spontaneous museum. Various information, tasks, incentives and materials that encourage for experimenting were collected there. For several hours, an Open Air Museum of the Wind has become a mobile platform for self-expression and reflection.
Songs of Arcadia
Ashot Danielyan.
Immersive performance-promenade
The issues identified during the study of the coastal zone, as well as the obsession of the developer who calls himself “Hephaestus” with the pseudo-ancient Greek style, had led to the appearance of a poem in the spirit of the ancient Greek epic, which tells about the confrontation between mortals and gods. The poem has references to what is happening in the Primorsky District of Odesa right now, namely: destruction of a unique natural landscape by the chaotic development of the site, artificially restriction of the access of local residents to public beaches and parks.
Arcadia Archeological Museum
Mikheil Sulakauri.
Objects, artifacts, 3D print
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκάδια) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. The utopian place with no beginning and ending. In Odessa XXth century Arcadia was called an area which was full of recreation zone and clean sea...Now this places transformed into concrete jungles, skyscrapers are built with no regulations and green zones are in the edge of disappearance. Exposition on museum starts with the water and finishes with water and Artifacts itself shows the transformation of the area. One of the key artifact is a 3D print ``Dacha Doksa`` which was scanned two days before demolishing, for Odessians it has become a symbol of that absurd situation happening in Arcadia.
By Memory
Ganna Anufriieva (Ukraine), Natasha Chychasova (Ukraine), Armenak Grigoryan (Armenia), Yuriy Kruchak (Ukraine), Cyrill Lipatov (Ukraine), Alexandra Novak (Moldova), Qafar Rzayev (Azerbaijan), Nadya Sayapina (Bilorus)
Objects, performances, interviews
The project aims to bring back the lost location to the city and to comprehend the traumatic history behind this place. During one month, a group of researchers and artists were gathering information about this place, in particular oral stories, documenting both its historical context and current condition. As a result, they have created three maps demonstrating condition of the place in different time periods and objects that interact with the space, reflecting on it.