GOGOLFEST inoculation: Art in conflicted area

This video installation is a compilation of art projects in Mariupol, Dnipro, Kherson, Vinnytsia done before the full-scale invasion. It shows the artists, people and ciltural life connected with GogolFest, iStage festival and Marathon of international Residencies in cities whose future are at risk.

Duration: 34min 26sec
 

#War_diary [Video installation]

Since the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, actors from the Dakh Centre of Contemporary Art in Kyiv have kept a video diary to express their fears and hopes. Two parts were recorded during the spring, the first immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion and the second a month later. One actress has sought refuge in Lviv in the western part of Ukraine with her family. Another is in Uzhgorod, on the border with Slovakia. Others have found asylum in Poland or Germany. And some stayed in Kyiv, the besieged capital.

Team:
Curator: Andrii Palatnyi
Coordinators: Viktoriia Fedoriv, Mariia Yakovenko, Alina Danylova
Actors: Sofiya Baskakova, Volodymyr Lutikov, Ihor Dymov, Nadiia Golubtsova, Valentyna Melnyk

Duration: 23min 51sec
 

ALASKA [fragments of war]
[A project about the pursuit of happiness in an abusive world]

ALASKA is a project about young people who lost their childhoods due to the war in Ukraine. The play was born in Mariupol and combines personal texts of children of the young theater with literary passages and poetry of the authors. The story was written short before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The play includes real thoughts and comments from the teenagers, who faced the war, lived through horrors, lost their relatives, and missed every opportunity to see them again in an instant.
ALASKA is a message of peace and a warning to the world.

*The original language of the play: Ukrainian and Russian / translated into English, French, and Greek and received an award ETC DRAMA COMMITTEE’S 2022 in the annual "European Selection".

Team:
Director-Author: Evangelos Kosmidis
Actors: Mark Rybalkin, Vyacheslav Morgay, Elvira Astakhova, Karina Kostyukova, Diana Klymenko, Marianna Klymenko, Evgenii Minaev, Evgen Bachurin, Polina Volenyuk, Oleksandra Pyatetska, Mariia Boyko, Kyrylo Varchyn, Daniil Chepelev, Mehman Hamidov, Iryna Rudenko, Mykhaylo Zagreba
Technical support: Anatolii Kinashchuk, Volodymyr Dzhambaz
Curator: Andrii Palatnyi
Coordinators: Viktoriia Fedoriv, Mariia Yakovenko, Alina Danylova

Duration: 14min 51sec
 

Lorenz.io [Romeo meetz Yulija]

«Romeo and Juliet» by William Shakespeare's is one of the most famous love stories in the world. Now also in digital format! We invite you to the online performance «Lorenz.io [Romeo meetz Yulija] » — a simultaneous performance between Mariupol (Ukraine) and Dortmund (Germany) with the participation of 20 young actors on the virtual stage. The theatrical part was created simultaneously by two directors. The Coronavirus pandemic has changed completely the artistic and technical approach of the project. A digital bridge between the two scenes of the two cities was planned. Now it is 20 «scenes» just at everyone's home! The project was implemented thanks to the Goethe-Institut Ukraine, GOGOLFEST and the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität in Dortmund with the friendly support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt).

Team:
Director: Rada Radojcic, Anton Telbizov
Concept: Anna Marienfeld, Rada Radojcic
Text, Video Art, Video Editing:
Anna Marienfeld
Set Design, Costume Design and Masks: Rada Radojcic
Music: Dixon Ra
Playwright: Anna Marienfeld
Shooting: Actors of Junges Theater „Kulturbrigaden",
Theatromania Mariupol,
and the Lyceum of Mariupol
Technical advice: Dominik Bay und Akademie für Theater und Digitalität
Assistant of the Director (UA):
Maria Kutnyakova
Technical Assistant (DE): Alexander Hügel
Project Management:
Andrii Palatnyi (UA), Michael Eickhoff (DE)
Project Coordinator: Katharina Görig, Natalia Shymina, Oksana Karpiuk
Project Officer PASCH: Vita Tymchenko
Interpreter: Natalia Shelgunova,
Andrii Palatnyi, Michael Eickhoff
Interviews website: Mykhailo Iurchenko
Website design:
Andrii Palatnyi, Alina Danylova
Design: Mariia Yakovenko
Coordinator: Viktoriia Fedoriv

Duration: 40min 25 sec
 

Digital degustations

Created by GogolFest_Laboratory of Solutions in Digital  together with the Ukrainian Institute as part of the first Drahomán Prize from PEN Ukraine. The Drahomán Prize is an award for translators from Ukrainian into world languages. It aims to support translators from Ukrainian into world languages and is awarded for high translation skills and contribution to the promotion of Ukrainian literature abroad. The book degustation series is based on short excerpts of books by nominated translators of Ukrainian authors into German, Polish and Czech.

Volodymyr Viatrovych “History marked 'Classified Material'”
Translator: Rita Kindlerova
Guest actress: Hanna Harnyk

Oleksiy Chupa "Tales from my bomb shelter"
Translator: Claudia Date
Guest actress: Julia Reiser

Victoria Amelina "Dom's Dream Kingdom"
Translator: Katarzyna Kotynska
Guest actor: Igor Aronov
Sound design: Volodymyr Grodzytskyi
Director: Andrii Palatnyi
GF_LSD team: Alina Danilova, Viktoria Fedoriv, Mariia Yakovenko

Duration: 16min 39sec