Private residency program
“Art Residency in Muzychi, 19 km from a host city of UEFA EURO 2012”
In 2012, Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities will host UEFA EURO 2012. For this particular time, June 8-July 1, as part of The Muzychi Expanded History Project/private residency program we set specific criteria for artists, art theoreticians and curators who wish to take part in the residency program – they have to be football fans!
Address:Lugova Street 9a, Muzychi Village, Kyiv Oblast, 08125, Ukraine
Getting there:
Buses #727 and #762 run every 25 minutes from Kyiv subway station Nyvky to Muzychi. Travel time is 40 minutes and the bus stop is a 20 minute walk from the studio.
Conditions:
We provide only the mentioned studio.
Deadline:
March 16
Availability:
June 8 – July 1, during UEFA EURO 2012, for a minimum period of two weeks. Applicants should be football fans!!!
Contact person:
Alevtina Kakhidze
info@alevtinakakhidze.com
The Muzychi Expanded History project is a private residency program supported by the Spiritual Values Institute
More about the concept, conditions, Muzychi and pets
“Art Residency in Muzychi, 40 km from ARSENALE 2012”
Ukraine will host UEFA EURO 2012 this year, but this is not the only event that will bring people from abroad here. Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012 will take place in Ukraine for the first time. We cannot predict the scale and level of the mentioned event but we react to what is happening around Muzychi. That is why we are announcing “Art Residency in Muzychi, 40 km from ARSENALE 2012”. For this particular event in the framework of The Muzychi Expanded History Project/private residency program we invite artists, art theoreticians and curators who have a strong interest in ARSENALE 2012 or just in international biennales of contemporary art in general.
Address:Lugova Street 9a, Muzychi Village, Kyiv Oblast, 08125, Ukraine
Getting there:
Buses #727 and #762 run every 25 minutes from Kyiv subway station Nyvky to Muzychi. Travel time is 40 minutes and the bus stop is a 20 minute walk from the studio.
Conditions:
We provide only the mentioned studio.
Deadline:
March 16
Availability:
May 23 – June 1, July 3 – July 12. Applicants should have a strong interest in Arsenale 2012 or in international biennales of contemporary art in general.
Contact person:
Alevtina Kakhidze
info@alevtinakakhidze.com
The Muzychi Expanded History project is a private residency program supported by the Spiritual Values Institute
More about the concept, conditions, Muzychi and pets
Artists expand the history of Muzychi in 2011
Tobias Rosenberger (Germany)
August 20 – September 5
Gerald Leow (Singapore)
September 5 – October 5
Artists expanded the history of Muzychi in 2010
Wojtek Ziemilski (Poland)
September 14 – September 25
Roland Roos (Switzerland)
September 27 – October 12
Joanna Warsza and Rene Wawrzkiewicz (Poland)
November 7 – November 18
Artists expanded the history of Muzychi in 2009
Interview with Stefka Ammon
I truly believe that one person can expand the history of a place – particularly when it comes to small towns or villages. Such places can be particularly famous because some “great” person was born or spent some part of his or her life there. Mostly it is connected to tourism, but still we must agree to the fact that a person does expand the history of a place.
Recently I moved from the capital to a village. The name of the village is Muzychi – which probably stems from the word “music” – that’s all I know. From a distance I haven’t noticed any speed of life here or artistic activity, something that I have been so involved in for all my adult life... So, believing in the idea that “a person expands the history of a place” I have decided to bring people from the art world here to Muzychi through The Muzychi Expanded History project. I will lend them my studio for two months a year so that they can stay and work in Muzychi. During this time I will work from my home, which is next door. The studio has two rooms: one room can be for living and the second for work; there is water, a shower and a toilet, furniture, a small kitchen, Internet and electricity. There is a bike donated to the program by previous resident Stefka Ammon.
I know that residency program policies require that something particular be done within the context of the place where the artist is staying. I do not have such rules and invite artists – including those without any specific project goals and concepts – to Muzychi. I will not require them to give a presentation, do research, or prepare an exhibition. I will invite people just for their presence here – just to be themselves, just to be in Muzychi.
In a few years a book called ‘Expanded History of Muzychi’ will be published. The book will consist of information about the residents in Muzychi – their biographies and descriptions of their art; in metaphor way their presence here expands the history of the place. The book is supposed to be in Ukrainian and presented to a local audience in the village.
