A project by:
Mark Neville (photography and video, www.markneville.com)
Alice Lackner (arrangements and vocal performance, www.alicelackner.de)
Imke Lichtwark (piano, www.imkelichtwark.com)
Mystetskyi Arsenal Kyiv, June 2019
Musikbrauerei Berlin, October 2019
powered by ZOiS Berlin (Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien, www.zois-berlin.de)
**about the project**
Mezzosoprano and sociologist Alice Lackner and photographic artist Mark Neville are collaborating on a new project which interweaves social research into war and displacement, documentary photography, and a contemporary re-interpretation of traditional East Ukrainian folk songs.
The collaboration resulted in an audio-visual installation event, in which Alice Lackner
performed her own interpretation of traditional folk songs recorded by Mark Neville on Ukraine’s frontline and elsewhere. Simultaneously, Neville’s images of Ukrainians affected
by the war in different contexts were projected.
With this installation, the artists try to shed light on (so far unheard) tales told by the people affected by the war. The goal is to broaden and deepen our understanding of the way a conflict influences and alternates the narratives of a nation.
Commissioned by the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, this collaboration is complementary to ongoing scientific work on the war in Ukraine.
24 ноя 2019
