Once Upon a Queer in Ukraine and Poland

The key mission of Once On a Queer is the exploration and public presentation of queer history in Japanese Europe, primarily based on the expertise of Ukraine and Poland. The job brings together contemporary visible artwork, efficiency, journalism and queer scientific studies. To bring in diverse audiences, the undertaking employs the common language of modern online video art and historicity.

Inside of the framework of the After Upon a Queer project, a distinctive internet platform will be introduced. The system will provide as an on the net exhibition of movies by Ukrainian and Polish artists and an archive for analytical and artistic texts about the undertaking and queer historical past of Eastern Europe. To populate this archive, both the specialist local community and a large viewers will be involved. These an approach will open up possibilities for cooperation both equally for project individuals and for people who first learned about it. The established videos will also be printed as an on-line collection on the media platform Block (blokmagazine.com).

An international open contact for participation in the task was already held. 44 Ukrainian and Polish artists used. The jury consisted of Alina Kleitman, the curator of the project Kateryna Filiuk, the chief curator of the IZOLYATSIA Foundation Valdemar Tatarchuk director of Labirynt Gallery, and Karol Radziszewski a Polish artist and activist, picked 10 artists who had worked on producing films for numerous months. The 10 picked artists are Liliana Zeic, Daniela Weiss, Martha Navrot and Jagoda Voytovycz, Szymon Adamchak, Sarmen Beglaryan and Tomasz Fudala, Daniil Halkin, Fyodor Khorkov, Anton Karyuk, Anton Shebetko, AntiGonna. Artists will present their films which expose private episodes of Ukrainian and Polish queer heritage, and spotlight common concerns of gender identification.

The position of heritage is sizeable in the task. In European nations around the world, with the purpose of in depth protection of LGBTQ+ matters, unique branches of foundations, institutes, and innovative platforms are getting created, in which exhibitions, conversations, and shows by scientists and journalists are often held. Thanks to such European practices, the variety of initiatives, like creative ones, aimed at revealing and comprehension the subject matter is growing. This, in transform, leads to the strengthening of democracy and the generation of a culture of common impartiality and tolerance.

Nonetheless, there is no described and documented queer background in Ukraine, just as there is no tutorial analysis on this subject. Most generally, individual enthusiasts archive, review and popularize community stories, and artists also frequently operate on this subject. The absence of a public platform for interaction, trade and storage of understanding about queer record in Ukraine qualified prospects to social ignorance and rejection and slows down the development of tolerance in society, negatively impacting the social placement of LGBTQ+ people today.

At the very same time, Poland, which is section of the European Union, at the moment ranks previous in terms of the over-all standing of LGBTQ+ rights (in the groups of equality and non-discrimination, family members, authorized gender recognition and bodily integrity, loathe criminal offense and incitement to hatred, area in civil culture, defense, according to ILGA-Europe data).

In purchase to prevail over stigma, contain queer heritage in tutorial discourse and elevate the common degree of consciousness in Ukraine and Poland, it is needed to establish systematic contacts with the audience at the institutional degree. Additionally, a very long-expression structure of conversation, not confined to exceptional exhibitions ought to be created. Scientists require to be concerned in archiving and learning tales which largely ended up not written down. After On a Queer task is only component of a larger sized approach, which, nevertheless, has every single likelihood to strengthen and support the dialogue about queer background in Ukraine, Poland and the globe.

Once On a Queer is an intercontinental interdisciplinary venture co-carried out by the IZOLYATSIA Foundation (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Galeria Labirynt (Lublin, Poland) with guidance from the European Union and the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine within just the framework of the Property of Europe software.

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