Glorifying Neofascism – How the Berlin KW Institute and Austrian Artists Approach Future Audiences

By Karyna Lazaruk, April 22, 2024

When my friends were hiding in bomb shelters or once again forced to confront the reality of death, I eagerly hoped for a gesture of solidarity from the cultural and artistic institutions of Berlin. I believe in the power of art, it is a universal language that allows people to come together, exchange ideas, make [...]

Forgetting Yourself as Little as Possible

By fantasticlittlesplash, January 15, 2024

If you listen to your own still body long and intently enough, you can hear the roar of your own blood — somewhere in your fingertips or an artery in the back of your head, perhaps in a bent limb. In the same way, you can suddenly recognize your voice in the din of war, [...]

STREAM ART or THE THIRD AVANT-GARDE: Introduction to Hybrid Togetherness

By Rom Dziadkiewicz, December 21, 2023

From #StreamArtStudio / UKRAiNATV / ASP KRK. Intensity is no stranger to our collective’s daily life, given the ever-lasting hyperactivity prevalent in #StreamArtStudio and UKRAiNATV. Every day and every night a colourful team of artists, and media freaks of different ages and roots, genders and experiences explore space-times in hyper research core searching for connections [...]

Experimenting Liveness: Stream Art Between Amsterdam, Kraków, and Kyiv | REPORT

By Giulia Timis, October 17, 2023

UKRAiNATV MANIFESTO

By Geert Lovink, October 5, 2023

UKRAiNATV MANIFESTO HOPECORE MANIFESTO  GREEN-PINK NOISE MANIFESTO  STREAM ART MANIFESTO MANIFESTO OF HYPERACTIVITIES 1. When war crashed the social system, UKRAiNATV emerged as a small source of hope to power it up as a collective, a meeting spot, the poorest and weirdest TV around, a vibe, and an aesthetic. We call it #HOPECORE. Every Thursday [...]

Transmissions for Ukraine

By Michael Mersinis, September 14, 2023

Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks Bob Dylan – Masters of War Background It is 2 [...]

The Names We Did not Share

By Linda Xheza, August 22, 2023

I would never have predicted that sharing my grandmother’s name would be such a traumatic event – an event that would fundamentally shape my relationship with my name and the names of my loved ones. It was summer and, although I cannot remember many details, I do remember that it was a very hot day [...]

Radically Different Society: Ukrainian Art in the Light of Revolution, in the Shadow of War

By Lesia Kulchynska, August 11, 2023

This lecture was presented on October 22, 2022, in Paris as a part of the symposium “History of Contemporary Art in Ukraine: from resisting the System to Constructing a common future“, organized by the Kandinsky Library, MNAM/Centre Georges-Pompidou on the occasion of the donation of works by contemporary Ukrainian artists to the national collection of [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 18

By Svitlana Matviyenko, June 25, 2023

January 27 – June 24, 2023 On the morning of January 27th, I landed in Berlin. Having collected my suitcases, I dragged all three of them to the airport exit, the last gate of Europe for me to cross. In the meeting hall, I saw Asia in a black wool jacket, waiting for me with [...]

Overview of Recent UKRAiNATV Live Webcasts (#EFIR 52-56)

By Geert Lovink, May 22, 2023

(please visit their website for more information: https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/) —   LIVE FROM KRAKOW — UKRAiNATV X CHICKS ON SPEED AV SHOW #~EFIR 56 MAY 21, 2023 OVERVIEW OF UKRAiNATV #EFIR 55 HOPECORE, MAY 19, 2023 🩸💉DISSECTING AND 🌹💪DISARMING VIOLENCE💥🔫 1. 🎶BLAKE AND LISTOPAD🎶 (concert) In the chronosynclastic swirl of the evening, love and disappointment found a [...]