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October 2024
The concept of the state border is mainly interpreted as a phenomenon of the political world - the world of people. Wild boars crossing the river - from the Ukrainian to the Romanian bank, lizards travelling on trains from Italy to Germany and, in turn, wolves running from Germany to Poland - a constant cycle, independent of EU passports and checkpoints, of map lines. But just like the Karman Line, this independence is proving to be conditional. And at some point we will realise - both for planes and for some migratory birds, the territory of Ukraine has become a no-fly zone. War - a constant but not obvious variable of history - manifests territorial borders; it marks out the boundaries of our memory, our identity.
When media artist Liera Polianskova reflects on this - for her new - reality, she often thinks of migratory birds - of the lines of new routes in their memory maps, of the voices that our parabolic microphones will no longer hear.
In an open studio on 19 October at 15:00, Liera Polianskova gave insights into her research.
Biography
Liera Polianskova is a Ukrainian artist in the field of new media and studied theatre studies in Kharkiv. In 2008, she founded the artist group "SVITER" with Max Robotov, which develops performances, installations and media art. Together with Ivan Svitlychnyi, she initiated the "Shukhliada" platform in 2013 and the "PHOTINUS Studio" in 2018 to promote new media art in Kiev. Her works were represented at the "Biennale di Venezia" 2017, the "transmediale Berlin" 2018 and the "Digital Cultures Festival" 2019, among others. in 2018, she took part in the residency programme of the WRO Art Center in Wroclaw. She has lived and worked in Kiev since 2014.
Exploring Echoes is a residency cooperation between HELLERAU, the Pochen Biennial (Chemnitz), the WRO Art Center (Wroclaw), the Jam Factory Art Center (Lviv) and the Centre for Urban History (Lviv) and is dedicated to the artistic and discursive exploration of local and transregional interdependencies within the cultural landscapes between Germany, Poland and Ukraine.
