Event: June 2014
Thu
12/6/14
08:00 PM
On the blackened square the black tyres burn, swallow the black smoke...” (Boris Khersonsky)
Reading
A trilingual reading (Ukrainian, Russian, German) with Yuri Andrukhovych author, curator, Ivano-Frankivsk Boris Khersonsky Author, Odessa Olena Herasymyuk author, Kiev Halyna Kruk author, Lviv Yelena Saslavskaya author, Luhansk Serhiy Zhadan author, Kharkhiv. Moderation Yuri Andrukhovych.
Today’s literary Ukraine is, in the words of Serhiy Zhadan, “a country in which the post-socialist transformation went wrong, where society slid back into a kind of natural state, where the lilac sunsets shimmer breathtakingly, because environmental destruction has conjured up its own kind of natural beauty”, until violence broke out...
At the conclusion of the reading:
DJ performance/disco: “Ukrainian-Russian Freindship”
With the DJs Kaminer & Gurzhy as well as DJ Mishukoff
The DJ Collective “Russendisko” is: Vladimir Kaminer, Moscow-born, in the meantime renowned across Europe for his book “Russendisko”, as well as Yuriy Gurzhy, born in Kharkhiv, DJ, musician, member of the band “Rotfront” (Berlin). They step on stage together with the Ukrainian DJ Constantin Mishukov, aka DJ-Mishukoff, who played in Maidan Square during the revolution.
Kindly supported by: German Foreign Office, Ukrainian Embassy, Goethe Institute Ukraine, Openukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.
Curators: Yuri Andrukhovych and Serhiy Zhadan.
Project Management: Alexander Filyuta.
Academy of the Arts
Kleines Parkett
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
8/5 EUR
Tickets online
Vorverkauf in der Akademie der Künste:
Tel 030. 200 57-1000/-2000
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Täglich 10:00–19:00