Artist and INDEX fellow Bohdan Bunchak will present his new video work “Who Will Go for Us”.
November 30, 18:00
At the Lviv Municipal Art Center (Vasyl Stefanyk Street, 11)
Bohdan Bunchak is a Ukrainian artist and veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian War. During his fellowship at INDEX, Bunchak has been researching what “civilian life” now means for Ukrainians with combat experience.
“Who Will Go for Us” is a 10-minute video work consisting of six “fragments” of visual and/or auditory density, showing the “civilian day-to-day” of the artist, a former soldier, and commander of an assault group who was severely wounded during one of many assaults in the Serebryansky forest.
We shall consider the video work as the body of the wounded soldier/author. Which fragments do we encounter deliberately, and which wounds do we avoid? How do visual and auditory amputations appear in the process of “civilian” adaptation and reintegration? When do we avert our gaze, and when does the author, unexpectedly, stop narrating? Civil PTSD, disruption of cultural sleep, and memory lapses in communities. The remnants of attention, and attention as a danger. Zero tolerance for therapeutic art, or the space of culture as a space of mutilation, limitation, and loss.
Author’s commentary:
Babel and shouting during a feast:
– It seems we were remembering something or someone.
– Who? I don’t understand.
– Raise your glasses, quickly.
– God bless! The most important thing is health.
– Look at him, he wants to sing again.
– Wait, wait, I know this one, something about forests, hay sheaves… something like that.
– It’s something… something sad. Oh God, oh God.
– Let’s do something more cheerful.
– Raise your glasses, I’ll check.
The event is organized by INDEX in collaboration with the Lviv Municipal Art Center.
