Artist Talk - Art in a State of Crisis

Nikita Kadan in conversation with Erich Klein and Hedwig Saxenhuber.

Nikita Kadan created In the framework of “The School of Kyiv”- Kyiv Biennial 2015 an installation (“The possessed can testify in court”, 2015), which is a construction of archival shelves uniting the objects from the Historical Museum collection with the works of the artist. The pieces from the collection reference the Soviet history of the current conflict zones: Crimea and Donbass regions. These objects, once infested with state ideology, have now escaped from any ideological narration. The objects have lost their fixed positions and conventional characteristics of ?friend? or ?enemy?, and they start to produce doubts regarding any type of historical narration. What is the crisis of art in Ukraine? The panelists will reflect on the questions of contemporary art in a political geography.

On the panel:
Nikita Kadan (Ukraine)
Erich Klein (Austria)
Hedwig Saxenhuber (Austria)

The discussion is held in English.
Free entrance

In cooperation with tranzit.at and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.