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Written by Roman on November 8th, 2010Soup for Culture : Chişinău, Moldova.
Written by Roman on April 9th, 2010I recently had the opportunity to visit Chişinău at the invitation of Oberliht (Young Artists Association of Moldova) to give a public presentation about my ongoing work with InCUBATE as well as my current research in Ukraine and the surrounding regions. What follows is a brief synopsis of my whirlwind trip …
Miles from nowhere
Written by Roman on April 2nd, 2010At around 11:00am on Saturday March 13th I got a call from my friend Gennaidy. A few weeks prior to this, I had written him an email with some questions about a group of Ukrainian performance artists who go by the name Taburet. Apparently, sometime in 2008, the group acquired a small parcel of rural land approximately 250km outside Kyiv near a town called Oberok.
Taburet’s little hamlet consists of seven simple concrete buildings (each heated by a wood burning stove), a few outhouses, and a central well for fetching fresh water. Over the past year and a half, the group has managed to create for themselves an isolated albeit thriving artistic community in a place many would consider to be the middle of nowhere.