Art Practices in Times of War: Ukrainian Artist and Authors Residency

In June of 2022, NGO Cultural Traffic organised a series of pop-up residencies for artists and other creatives in the Carpathian Mountains, a relatively safe area in western Ukraine. Organized by Olena Kasperovych, an art curator from Kharkiv, the residencies did not require artists to create any “finished products” (artworks, exhibitions, texts), but instead offered … Read more

Dispatches from the Quiet Centre

Vira Karpinska: Documentary cinema and DOCU/CLUB in Ukraine during war Thursday 17 April 2025 Vira Karpinska, a member of the DOCU/CLUB initiative in Ukraine, spoke about the role of making and watching documentaries in precarious times and spaces, the role of cinema in community developments, and the challenges and aspirations of independent documentary movements in … Read more