New Visions in Conversation
OLEKSIY RADINSKY ON POST-SOVIET INFRASTRUCTURE AND NORD STREAM 2 (AT VEGA SCENE)
Photo: Anastasiya Mantach
Film screening, artist presentation and conversation with Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksiy Radinsky.
Radinsky's low-key and observational documentary films deal with how material structures from the Soviet and post-Soviet era, such as architecture and infrastructure, influence everyday life in Ukraine. The filmmaker will show the short films The Film of Kyiv. Episode One (2017) and Circulation (2020), and present clips from his ongoing highly relevant work about the gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.
The event is this autumn's third in the conversation program New Visions in Conversation. The program aims to support Ukrainian artists and to strengthen awareness and knowledge of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, seen through artists' perspectives. New Visions in Conversation is a collaboration between Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Podium, Black Box theater and Vega Scene, and is supported by Fritt Ord.
The conversation is moderated by Susanne Østby Sæther, Curator of photography and new media at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.
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Oleksiy Radinsky (b. 1984) is a filmmaker, writer, and organizer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Radinsky's films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, e-flux (New York), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Krakow IFF, S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York), and he has received several festival awards. As an author, he has contributed to a number of publications, including Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (Archive Books, 2017), Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA, 2018) and e- flux journal. Radinsky is a co-founder of the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv, an independent platform for collaboration between academic, artistic, and activist communities. The Visual Culture Research Center has organized the Kyiv Biennale since its first edition in 2015.