CITIZENSHIP UKRAINE
We are Ukrainians. Citizens of Ukraine have taken up arms and are fighting for freedom, democracy and human dignity, switched from cosy living to non-stop volunteering in order to help others to survive and to resist. We are different, but we have one goal - to defeat the evil that came to our land to destroy life. Our contribution to the documentafifteen is to think together with its international community, with the people of Kassel and Europeans in general about the reasons of the aggressive war that the Russian Federation unleashed against the civilized world, about the blind spots of the Europeans on the map and in the history of Europe, about freedom, decoloniality and the danger of forgetting the past.
We will have talks about weapons, westsplaining, identity, decoloniality, nationalism, freedom, totalitarianism, collectivity,where the audience can come and publicly express your points on these topics. We also hope that philosophers, artists and researchers are not only able to write about us, but are also willing to discuss these topics with us in person. To apply for participating in discussions, please fill the form: https://forms.gle/PKRzKj444NcaQFkC7
We propose to documentafifteen visitors and participants: Talk with Ukrainians, not about them!
Location: RuruHaus Reno (entrance from Treppenstraße): Ob. Königsstraße 43, 34117 Kassel.
“Citizenship Ukraine” is a 3-day programme curated by 4 Ukrainian cultural organisations as part of ZK/Us eco-system at documentafifteen . Artists and activists from Mariupol, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Kherson will spend the154th, 155th, and 156th day of full-scale russian war against Ukraine in Kassel, welcoming everyone to visit “Citizenship Ukraine”.
Having been directly affected by the Russian invasion, the participants from Ukraine will share the experience of home loss and relocation - some of them went through this for the second time - as well as transforming the cultural work to adapt to the new reality. Exhibitions, workshops, discussions, film screenings, and presentations will showcase Ukrainian grassroot initiatives on Citizenship Ukraine at Hiroshima-Ufer and other locations
We invite you to talk with us, listen to us, and learn more about Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Detailed program: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/citizenship-ukraine/
Participants: Platform Tu (Mariupol), Kultura Medialna (Dnipro), Garage 127 (Kharkiv), Totem (Kherson). The programme is part of the contribution of ZK\U (Berlin) to documentafifteen and funded by the Lumbung Network and the Federal Foreign Office.
Moderator of discussions: Larysa Venediktova. Invited guests: Lia Dostlieva, Yana Kononova, Yulia Krivich, Olesya Onikeyenko. More invited speakers and detailed schedule of “Citizenship Ukraine” events to be announced soon.