Playlist (all available on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kateryna-iakovlenko)

VL by Kateryna Iakovlenko

Obe Belye by Kateryna Iakovlenko

Glushkov by Kateryna Iakovlenko

VS by Kateryna Iakovlenko

Links:

Ukrainian Rage by Kateryna Iakovlenko: https://www.e-flux.com/notes/468104/ukrainian-rage 

Links to local aid organizations by region:

Dnipro: https://medhelpdnipro.org 

Zaporizhzhia: https://facebook.com/shotidyadya 

Sumy: https://fond.sumy.ua/ukr 

Kharkiv: https://instagram.com/vo_vulyk/ 

Mykolaiv: rebelvol.com and https://www.instagram.com/south.night.ua/

fund supporting various local initiatives: https://helpvolunteer.com.ua

This week we speak with Anna Manankina, an interdisciplinary media artist from Kharkiv. Joining us from Karlsruhe in Germany, Anna shares music inspiring her, as well as audio from some of her recent works and details of her experience leaving Ukraine and continuing her practice abroad. 

Playlist:

Milk and Honey by Jackson C. Frank 

Come Wander with Me from Anna Manankina’s work of the same name, adapted from the original version recorded for the 1964 Twilight Zone episode of the same name

Excerpt from Secondary Archive at Manifesta 14 Prishtina by Anna Manankina

White Room by Cream

Links:

https://cargocollective.com/manankina

https://secondaryarchive.org/news/secondary-archive-at-manifesta-14/

https://u24.gov.ua/

Also mentioned in the show Lenoczka https://www.instagram.com/zencubism/ and TU Platform from Mariupol https://www.instagram.com/tu_mariupol/

This week we speak with Polina Verbytska, a sculptor based in Kyiv. Joining us from Klaipeda, LT, where she is currently in residency, Polina discusses changes to her practice during the war both practically and interpretively. 

Playlist:

Act II: Una furtiva lagrima… Un solo instante by Gaetano Donizetti & Enrico Caruso

Mother Sky by CAN

After Hours by The Velvet Underground

Lullaby [Колискова] by Nina Matvienko

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/weirdsculpture/

https://www.facebook.com/polina.verbytska

https://www.instagram.com/verbytska_po/

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

Links:

https://grygoriv-razumeiko.com/

https://www.facebook.com/operaapertaopera

https://www.instagram.com/opera_aperta_ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/c/operaaperta

https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/

This week we speak with Sasha Halishchuk, an artist based in Kyiv. Joining us from Lublin, PL, Sasha shares his ideas as an artist and musician, as well as his bureaucratic struggle to leave Ukraine after being awarded a scholarship in Poland.

Playlist:

Up by Sissster Oschcherba (Sasha Halishchuk)

HURT by 1 800 PAIN

Sessions by Sissster Oschcherba (Sasha Halishchuk)

Baby In The Kitchen by Ayesha Erotica

mos thoser by food house, Gupi & Fraxiom

To My White Boy Princess…. by Alice Longyu Gao

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/user-745393387

https://www.instagram.com/telonovela/

https://produktionshaeuser.de/oleksandr-halishchuk-we-are-dancing-not-cops/

https://www.instagram.com/femsolution_org/

https://www.instagram.com/solidaritycollectives/

This week we speak with Les Vynogradov, a musician and cultural manager from Kyiv. Joining us from Chicago where he has been living since 2021, Les shares tracks from his various musical projects and discusses the experience of Ukrainians living abroad. 

Vin de Mia Trix: https://vindemiatrix.bandcamp.com/

a noend of mine: https://anoendofmine.bandcamp.com/

Support Ukraine: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

Ukrainian Music Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SOCMdFQ2bRPvPFs8iGwLw?si=1f95dad05fb145fa

This week we speak with Lina Romanukha, a curator, cultural manager, and artist based in Kyiv. Joining us from Rivne in western Ukraine, Lina shares sounds from her personal experiences and discusses her recent activities including an exhibition of collage works.

LINKS:

https://www.instagram.com/romalina3/

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/lina-romanukha-ukraine-diary

https://bank.gov.ua/ua/about/support-the-armed-forces

https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

This week we speak with Ihor Kanivets and Margarita Sherstiuk of the Kyiv-based romantic electro-naïve band Ambrozia. Joining us from Kyiv and Paris, Ihor and Margarita share their music, their love for Kyiv, and the artistic philosophy behind their work.

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/the_ambrozia_project/

https://soundcloud.com/user-494409827

http://facebook.com/theambroziaproject

This week we speak and listen to works and recordings by Theatre Director Pavlo (Pasha) Yurov. Joining remotely from Kyiv, Pasha discusses his involvement in the war and the changes to his creative practice over the last 8 years.

Links to funds and initiatives to support Ukraine:

https://savelife.in.ua/en/

https://www.hospitallers.life

https://spilnameta.com/en/

Episode 1 - This week we listen to works and recordings by sound artist Oleksandr Yeltsin, video artist Yuri Yefanov, and curator Natalia Matsenko. Joining remotely from Kyiv, the group discusses recent changes to their creative practices during wartime.

Links:

Oleksander

https://misteryoda.bandcamp.com/

http://www.elcyn.com/

Yuri

The Wind Probably: http://yuriyefanov.com/TheWind.html

Natalia

Bio: https://www.versopolis.com/author/467/natalia-matsenko

Video work: https://youtu.be/9rmj0UoUPqo