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Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

post presents: Art, Resistance, and New Narratives in Response to the War in Ukraine

On the evening of October 12, 2022, post presents hosted presentations and conversations with artists, scholars, and curators about the artistic responses to the war in Ukraine, looking at the period between the Maidan Revolution, which was followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and occupation of Donbas in 2014, and the full-scale Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022. This conversation is a continuation of the presentations and conversations commenced that evening.

Inga Lāce, Svitlana Biedarieva, Nikita Kadan, Lesia Khomenko and Ewa Sułek

Asia | One Work, Many Voices

A Death Sentence Is a Precondition for More Life

Joshua Chambers-Letson extrapolates antinomies from Danh Vo’s Death Sentence, a work on paper in MoMA’s collection, in particular the coexistence of values related to life and death.

Joshua Chambers-Letson

Africa | One Work, Many Voices

Everything Flows: Loops, Holds, and Spectral Enclosures

Gee Wesley writes about Sandra Mujinga’s Flo (2019). On view in MoMA’s Contemporary Collection Galleries from March 2023, Flo considers darkness and disappearance as a means of remaining illegible to technologies of surveillance and data capture.

Gee Wesley

Asia | One Work, Many Voices

What We Cannot Carry

The author applies what they call “a Buddhist reading” to Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Untitled (rucksack installation), 1993, analyzing it alongside recent developments in contemporary Thai art and politics.

Ariana Chaivaranon

Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Into The Void of Metamorphosis: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Wong Binghao in conversation

This conversation between filmmaker and artist Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and C-MAP Asia Fellow Wong Binghao is accompanied by a two-week screening of Nguyen-Chi’s film Into The Violet Belly (2022), and a collage by designer Ghazaal Vojdani that responds to the conversation.

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Wong Binghao

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Dife and Leath: Time Rots

This elegiac text, published as a postscript to C-MAP’s 2022 seminar, is one of many in which artist Daniel Lie, one of the seminar’s panelists, reflects on the non-binary nature of life and death, a crucial thematic in their artistic practice.

Daniel Lie

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Mida e Vorte: o tempo podre

Neste texto elegíaco, publicado a título de posfácio ao seminário, organizado pelo C-MAP em 2022, Daniel Lie, autore e palestrante convidade, reflete sobre a natureza não binária da vida e da morte, uma temática crucial na sua prática artística.

Daniel Lie

Asia | One Work, Many Voices

Revolutionary Anus: On Alfonso Ossorio’s Empty Chair or The Last Colonial (1969)

Collaborating artists Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho take a speculative approach to Alfonso Ossorio’s sculpture, currently on view in Gallery 415, attempting to locate an insurgent potential bubbling underneath the picture’s baroque aesthetic.

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho

The Americas | A Global Museum

A Kaleidoscopic Prism: Conversation with Gaëlle Choisne

Gaëlle Choisne shares the details and entryways to her artistic practice. This text serves as a record of Choisne’s artistic and conceptual process, and is part of the C-MAP Asia Fellow’s ongoing research about curatorial approaches to art.

Gaëlle Choisne and Wong Binghao

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Decolonization and Disentanglement in Ukrainian Art

In this text focused on how postcolonial and decolonial processes are reflected in contemporary Ukrainian culture, art historian Svitlana Biedarieva examines methods of decolonizing Ukrainian cultural discourse through the lens of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists—specifically those addressing complex aspects of identity conflicts actualized by Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.

Svitlana Biedarieva

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Jaider Esbell: Fissures between Worlds

Madeline Murphy Turner analyzes recent artworks by the late Jaider Esbell, a pioneering artist, enabler, and advocate of Indigenous perspectives, environmentalism, and land rights.

Madeline Murphy Turner

Central & Eastern Europe | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Before the Invasion: Conversation with Vasyl Cherepanyn

The conversation with Vasyl Cherepanyn, head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC) in Kyiv, took place several days before Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, reflecting on the local art scene and political situation, forced to be left unfinished abrutply.

Inga Lāce and Vasyl Cherepanyn