A series of audio installations based on field recordings collected in Kyiv and nearby during 2011–2024.
This is a programme of installations by the Ukho agency (curator — Sasha Andrusyk) which consists of three parts that differ both in terms of the timing of the collected recordings — Kyiv before the full-scale invasion, Kyiv after it, and Kyiv in the moment of transition — and in terms of the way the recordings are treated.
The peaceful pre-2022 Kyiv, which has now disappeared, is the subject of the Kyiv Eternal audiovisual installation by Oleh Shpudeiko. Fragments of field sound are developed via artistic techniques (such as ambient composition), forming ‘memory cycles’. The installation uses a video work by Kachna Baraniewicz and Maryna Osnach, mapped by Illia Kovalenko / ctrl-i.
Kyiv after the invasion is the subject of the Death in June, an audio documentary by Ian Spektor, based on his field recordings collected in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Volodarka. It is a private diary of loss, but at the same time a sound imprint of Kyiv in the spring–summer 2023.
The third part is a small archive of home music recordings created by kyivites in the spring of 2022 and collected by the Ukho agency.
Cinema House,
31 May — 2 June, 11:00 — 8:00 p.m.
4 June — moderated artist talk.
Free entrance.
