Days of Performance Art in Lviv

Organizers: Polish Institute in Kyiv and Art Association  Dzyga.

Curator: Waldemar Tatarchuk.

Since 2008 the Days have been holding within the Tyzhden/ Week of Contemporary Art in L’viv. That is  the first festival  presenting   contemporary art of the Eastern Europe in all its  diversity of generations and trends.

Video demonstrations,  meetings with artists and lectures use to  accompany  the  presentations of  performances.

2008

Days 2008 - The outstanding Polish  masters of performance were the participants of that  event: Zbigniew Varpehovsky Jan Svidzhinsky and Janusz Baldyha. Belarus was represented by young artists Dmitriy Mayboroda and Alexander Sarna, Ukraine – by Vlodko Kaufman, Vasyl’ Bazhay   and Yury i Sokolov.  Lithuania artists  Redas Dirzhys and Valdas Manomaytis joined the project as well.

2009

Days of Performance Art - 2009 participants: Yaroslav Yanovsky, Volodymyr  Topiy, Vlodko Kaufman, Myroslav Wajda, Rostyslav Koterlin, Hamlet Zinkovsky from Ukraine &  Waldemar Tatarchuk, Marta Bosovska, Dominique Yalovinskyy, Michal Baldyga from Poland  and Denys Romanovsky  from Belarus.

Eke: the Days -2009 launched the "School of Performance," where  young artists or just interested people had the possibility to adopt experience  from  Janusz Baldyga, the Maitre of Polish performance & Sibylle Omlin, Professor of the Basel University and curator of the contemporary-art projects. The School was  attended by about 30 students from L’viv, Uzhgorod, Odessa, Kharkiv and Kyiv.

2010

In 2010 the School of  Performance  will be conducted within  the Tyzhden/Week of Contemporary Art     from 23 to 26 August. The classes will be led by  Janusz Baldyga and  by Barbara Sturm, the known master & scholar of contemporary art from Austria.

More detailed information  HERE

The participantst: Myroslav Wajda, Natalia Vyshnevska, Marta Kotvitsa, Tamar Raban, Pshemyslav Kvek, Vlodko Kaufman, Iza Tarasevich, Barbara Sturm, Volodymyr Topiy, Lucash Trusevych, Jerzy Onuch, Janusz Baldyga, Lublin Dance Theatre, Contemporary Dance Association TanzLaboratorium, Theatre Academy of Movement and Contemporary  Dance Group  of the Lublin Polytechnic Institute.

Program HERE