Polyphonie der Stimmen - IMMATERIELLES KULTURERBE
Polyphony of Voices -INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Ausstellung und Forschungsprojekt / Exhibiton and research project Kuratiert von / Curated by: Yvonne Živković, Astrid Kury
Mit Beiträgen von / With contributions from:
Anastasiia Khlestova (UA/AT), Yevheniia Laptii (UA/AT),
Małgorzata Markiewicz (PL), Barbi Marković (RS/AT),
Ryts Monet (IT/AT), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (CG/AT),
Ivana Sajko (HR/DE), Anna Schwinger (AT)
Die Ausstellung fragt, wie Künstler:innen, Autor:innen und Kurator:innen im laufenden Austausch ihr eigenes Kulturerbe erleben und wie sie sich künstlerisch mit Tradition und kulturellem Erbe auseinandersetzen.
Die Vorstellung eines unverrückbaren Kulturerbes wurde historisch oft missbräuchlich verwendet. Dagegen zeichnet sich die UNESCO-Konvention zum immateriellen Kulturerbe (2003) durch eine Neufokussierung auf die dynamische, mobile und dialogische Natur von Kulturerbe aus. Sie zieht insbesondere die Realitäten von Migration und Globalisierung in Betracht – mündliche Überlieferungen, Hand- werk und religiöse Rituale sind so ebenso zen- tral wie Vorstellungen von Herkunftsort oder (trans)-nationaler Identität.
Dies ist Thema der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung ebenso wie des EU-Forschungsprojekts MASETIH Migrant Authors from South-eastern Europe and the Transfer of Intangible Heritage von Yvonne Živković/ Institut für Slawistik, KFU Graz, auf dem diese Ausstellung aufbaut.
The exhibition asks how artists, writers and curators experience their own cultural heritage in ongoing exchanges and in residencies and how they deal artistically with tradition and cultural heritage.
Historically, the notion of an immovable heritage has often been misused. In contrast, the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) is characterized by a refocusing on the dynamic, mobile and dialogical nature of cultural heritage. In particular, it takes into account the realities of migration and globalization. In this understanding of cultural heritage, oral traditions, handicrafts and religious rituals are just as central as ideas of place of origin or (trans)national identity. It is precisely these immaterial aspects that frequently appear in the artists’ books and performances.
This is the subject of the artistic debate as well as of the EU research project MASETIH Migrant Authors from Southeastern Europe and the Transfer of Intangible Heritage by Yvonne Živković / Institute for Slavic Studies, KFU Graz, on which this exhibition is based.
Anastasiia Khlestova (UA/AT), born 1989 in Lughansk, is a curator based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She received a master’s degree in Art History at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art. Nastia is working with the topics of the art process and the place of a young artist in the structure of contemporary art process. Her focus is the modes of functioning of artist-run spaces, local artistic institutional history, as well as young artists and their personal stories. She is the curator and co-founder of the space 127 garage in Kharkiv.
127garage is a space for cultural initiatives from artists and for artists. The artist Anton Tkachenko and the curator Nastia Khlestova, opened a space for exhibitions, lectures, shows, meetings, discussions, and, mostimportantly, experiments in the garage. The main goal and mission of 127 garage is to create a community comfortable for work and interaction, supporting young artists.
127garage’s work is centered on different formats of knowledge exchange and developing new tools for understanding the condition today for a queerer tomorrow. Through the curation of residences, projects, festivals, directing educational programs, proposing workshops and performing lectures 127 garage opens up new discursive lines, by involving different actors into challenging spatialnarratives. 127 garage strives for a world of horizontal hegemonies, borderlessness and borderlands.
