What is feminism now and how has it influenced the arts in Ukraine and beyond? We invite you to join our panel discussion on the historic roots and modern contexts of feminism, and what relevance and roles it has in art, culture, and social movements across the world.
The virtual event will bring together a diverse range of voices from the United States and Ukraine, who will present their current research addressing questions from the intersections of women’s and social history, arts and activism. We will discuss the historic and cultural legacy of International Women’s day, definitions of feminist art, how social movements shape contemporary agendas and gain visibility, and in what ways expressions of feminism differ across cultures.
Panelists will include Dr. Jessica Zychowicz, Oksana Briukhovetska, Oksana Dovgopolova, and Kateryna Iakovlenko who will bring their many years of experience from a cross-section of fields from art to history to curatorship to the conversation. The panel will be moderated by Olena Zoria, America House Program Manager. We’ll be streaming this session to our Facebook page on March 31 at 6:30 PM. Prepare your questions and join us for a robust discussion!
About the panelists:
Dr. Jessica Zychowicz recently published the monograph Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine (University of Toronto Press 2020). She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Area Studies 2017-2018 to the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She has been a Fellow at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs; a Visiting Scholar at Uppsala University’s Institute for Russian and East European Studies in Sweden; and has participated in talks and residencies at the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators, and others. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan and holds a degree in English literature from U.C. Berkeley. She is currently based at the University of Alberta, CUSP: Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program. For more info visit Jessica’s website.
Oksana Briukhovetska — artist, curator and publicist. During 2009-2019 she worked at the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv, where among other projects curated feminist exhibitions "Motherhood", "What in me is Feminine?", "TUXTUS. Embroidery, Textile, Feminism". Curated "Women's Texts" exhibition at the Transeuropa Festival in Madrid, Spain (parallel program of the International Kyiv Biennial), 2017. Was a co-curator of the Warsaw Under Construction X Festival and author of the "I am Ukrainka" poster campaign about female migrant workers in Poland, 2018. Researched feminist art in Eastern Europe and France within Tandem-Ukraine program in 2017-2018. Co-editor of the book “The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism” (Kyiv, 2019). Now working on the book about Black Lives Matter protest and race in the USA for Ukrainian audiences.
Oksana Dovgopolova — Doctor Habilis in Philosophy of History, Professor of the Philosophy Department, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. Her sphere of scientific interests: Philosophy of History, Memory Studies. Teaches the courses of Philosophy of History, Memory Studies and Medieval Philosophy in Odessa National University. Oksana Dovgopolova collaborates with Odessa Museums (Odessa Fine Arts Museum, Odessa Modern Art Museum, Odessa Museum of Private collections) as curator of educational programs during the exhibitions and as organizer of educational projects for schoolchildren. In 2018-2019 collaborated with “Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center” as an expert in Historical Memory. From 2019 leads the project “Past / Future / Art” (Минуле / Майбутнє / Мистецтво).
Kateryna Iakovlenko — contemporary art researcher, art critic and journalist. MA in journalism and social communication from Donetsk National University. For six years she has been researching the transformation of the heroic narrative of Donbas through new media as a postgraduate thesis at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. For more than seven years she has been writing about art and culture in various Ukrainian and European media. Worked as deputy web editor in The Day newspaper, and curator and program manager in Donbas Studies Research Project at the IZOLYATSIA. Her current research interest touches on the subject of art during political transformations and war, and explores women's and gender optics in visual culture. She was the editor of the books Gender Studies by Donbas Studies Research Project (2015) and Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art (2019), co-edited Curatorial Handbook (2020). Now she works as a researcher and public programme curator at the PinchukArtCentre.
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