BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7360@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230504 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230522 DTSTAMP:20230510T125318Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-home/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: HOME DESCRIPTION:EUROFESTIVAL: EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS @ OPEN EYE GALLERY &\; LIVERPOOL CITY REGION\n\n\n\n\nHOME\n\nUkrainian photography inspiring UK words\n\nOpen Eye Gallery is proud to be a commissioned organisation for  EuroFestival\, which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovi sion Song Contest.\n\nWorking together with Ukrainian curators Viktoria Ba vykina and Max Gorbatskyi (Ukrainian.Photographies) and partner organisati ons in Liverpool City Region\, Open Eye Gallery will produce exhibitions\, publications and events in the gallery and across Liverpool city region\, reflecting on the question What does home mean? With over 40 venues\, t his is the largest exhibit of Ukrainian photography in the UK. Here’s what’s happening.\n\nHome. Perspectives exhibition at Open Eye Gallery\ n\nThe exhibition Home. Perspectives (4 May – 21 May) brings together diverse projects from 17 Ukrainian artists who offer distinct approaches t o image creation\, and ways of seeing and thinking about Ukraine.\n\nThe e xhibition is curated by Mariama Attah\, Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatsk yi\, together with six invited curators representing different cultural in stitutions across Europe and the UK: Kateryna Filyuk (IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives\, Kyiv and 89 books\, Palermo)\, Ben Harman (Sti lls – centre for photography\, Edinburgh)\, Louise Pearson (National Gal leries of Scotland)\, Amelie Schüle (FOAM Amsterdam)\, Monika Szewczyk (T he Arsenal Gallery\, Białystok)\, and Lindsay Taylor (the University of S alford Art Collection\, Salford) who shared their perspectives on Ukrainia n photography through the projects they selected and commented on.\n\nSara h Fisher\, director of Open Eye Gallery\, said: “Home as about the cele bration and survival of Ukrainian culture amidst more urgent survival\, an d Open Eye Gallery team are proud to stand with Ukraine as they fight for their home.\n\nOur era of international sharing online sees people uploadi ng 2 billion photographs per day. Photography is now the international lan guage of democracy. Home’s photographers reveal Ukrainians’ current e xperience\, and as importantly\, fundamental human values that underpin ou r idea of ‘home’: family and friends in a safe space\, the beautiful l andscapes of our home country\, human creativity and the culture within wh ich we recognise ourselves – our identity”.\n\nPublic realm. Home di ptychs\n\nSix Ukrainian photographers tell their stories about home throug h images. Six UK poets respond with a short poem. These diptychs will be s ituated in public spaces and on Merseyrail sites.\n\nThe photographers: Ma ryna Frolova\, Alexander Chekmenev\, Igor Chekachkov\, Polina Polikarpova\ , Yaroslav Solop\, Mykhaylo Palinchak.\n\nThe poets: Deryn Rees-Jones\, Ja ckie Kay\, James Conor Patterson\, John Hegley\, Hanan Issa\, Roger McGoug h\, curated by the National Poetry Library.\n\nHome Trails App \n\nAn a pp\, designed by the University of Liverpool team\, will lead the EuroFest ival guests and Liverpool locals to independent spaces to see Home-themed Ukrainian photography collections in 5 trails across the city region. The themes of the trails are Land\, Making\, Liberty\, Resistance\, Settings.\ n\nThe 25 places on the trails include cafes\, shops\, museums and galleri es. Each place will have an artwork by a contemporary Ukrainian photograph er and a postcard for sale – profit will go to the Hospitallers medica l group\, an organisation focusing on sourcing and delivering medical sup plies for paramedics who save human lives in Ukraine. We invite everyone t o collect the postcards and upload your own poem\, lyric or a letter in r esponse.\n\nExhibitions in Liverpool City Region\n\nEach trail ends in an exhibition:\n\n Williamson Art Gallery &\; Museum (April 26 – May 2 7). This exhibition offers various interpretations of the concept of ‘Re sistance’ by bringing together the work of 3 different Ukrainian photogr aphers. Mykhaylo Palinchak had never covered military conflicts before but after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022\, he transformed his pho tographic practices to record the atrocities committed by the russian army and the resistance of the Ukrainian people.  At this time\, Andriy Rachy nskiy also turns to the documentary genre recording the widespread practic e of people painting over the road signs and toponyms to disorient the occ upation army. Elena Subach’s project ‘Lamkist’ (Fragility) is aimed at the poetisation and monumentalisation of mundane and fragile ordinary t hings\, a reflection on the often unnoticed artefacts of the everyday. It reveals the presence of resistance in the coming together and coming apart of natural and man-made objects.\n Norton Priory (27 April – 31 May). The two featured Ukrainian photography projects demonstrate different asp ects of being with a place – from owning to conquering it to cultivating or occupying it. In Anatoliy Babiychuk’s project\, the village of Horai vka stands as an exemplary story of a small village that has kept a tradit ional way of living\, cultivating a deep connection with the land typical of Ukrainian tradition. Exhibited in the walled garden\, Black on Prussian Blue by Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva explores the notion of a perpet rator’s gaze based on the study of the photographs from the family album of a Wehrmacht soldier who served in the Luftwaffe during WWII.\n Kirkby Gallery (01 May – 15 June). Nazar Furyk represents the generation of a rtists whose practices are characterised by an exploratory approach to pho tographic imagery and photographic subjects. His project “Simple Things ” blurs the boundaries of photographic genres searching for new pictoria l forms or questioning the role of the medium today.\n Unity Theatre (01 – 12 May). ‘To Know Us Better’ project by Anton Shebetko celebrates queer Ukrainians who are living or temporarily staying in Europe. Their e xperience and hopes for a better future are documented in a series of port raits and heartfelt interviews.\n The Atkinson (04 May – 15 June). The projects ‘My World is not Real Enough for an Apocalypse’ by Sasha Kur maz and ‘Dreamland Donbas’ by  Viktor Marushchenko were both shot in the Donetsk region but at different times and told about different people and communities.  The heroes and heroines of Marushchenko’s photographs are the illegal coal miners trying to make ends meet. Kurmaz’s story is about the ‘social life of the young generation in the Donetsk region\, its form and relationship in the environment.’\n\n \;\n\nFilm\n\nUkr ainian curators and photographers and UK poets are talking about home and what it means to them in Home From Home film produced by Hurricane Films and Arthouse Traffic Films. The film will be available to watch during H ome. Perspectives exhibition at Open Eye Gallery and online.\n\nBook\n\n The book Home includes featured photographs and commissioned poems\, the exhibition views\, and essays on the topic of home. It will be available to buy at Open Eye Gallery during Home. Perspectives exhibition.\n\nAt H ome: special edition of Open Eye Gallery’s in-house magazine TILT\n\nThe magazine\, produced in partnership with the Centre for New and Internatio nal Writing\, University of Liverpool\, shows photographs by contemporary Ukrainian photographers and poems and essays created in response to them. Speaking about producing the zine\, Deryn Rees-Jones\, Co-Director of the Centre for New and International Writing\, said: “The work featured he re is by current and former students of Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool\, and one poet whose work is published by Pavilion Poetry. All the writers\, who are at different stages of their lives and careers\, have had a chance to reflect\, in poetry or prose\, on what home means\, using the photographs as a bridge to their own memory and imagination. The very best writing comes from a place of radical empathy: an ability to id entify but also to address one’s own assumptions and beliefs. Working on the zine has given us all an important opportunity to reflect on the war in Ukraine and its devastating impact on the daily lives Ukrainians”.\n\ nContributing writers: Deryn Rees-Jones\, Oleksandra Pron\, Bernadette McB ride\, Pauline Rowe\, Sarah Hymas\, Saul Leslie\, David Tierney\, Anita Pa ti\, Max Gorbatskyi\, Viktoria Bavykina.\n\nAt Home magazine will be avai lable to buy at Open Eye Gallery.\n\nHome Schools Activity Pack\n\nHome: What Does It Mean to You? is a creative writing resource pack for Year 5 primary school pupils\, developed by poet and writer\, Pauline Rowe\, and the team at Open Eye Gallery. The pack uses five photographs from contempo rary Ukrainian photographers to encourage pupils to respond creatively to visual images through stories\, poems\, lyrics and letters.\n\nThe pack in cludes seven PDF files – a colourful presentation for the classroom\, gu idance notes about the pack\, and five black-and-white printable activity worksheets for pupils. Download the pack: Home Schools Actibity Pack.\n\n The pack is designed to encourage pupils to think about alternative ways o f defining ‘home’ : as a feeling\, a place\, an identity\, or through experiences of being with friends and family. It is inspired by contempora ry Ukrainian photography\, in keeping with the same theme.\n\nEvents\n\nEv ents during EuroFestival will include creative writing workshops\, artists talks by Ukrainian photographers\, publications and poetry readings. Con firmed events:\n\nCallout For New Photography Criticism (deadline 30 Apri l)\n\nThe Liverpool Camarade\, European Poetry Festival (11 May\, Open Ey e Gallery\, RSVP)\n\nPoetry in a Time of Crisis. Ilya Kaminsky lecture ( 15 May\, The Tung Auditorium\, RSVP)\n\nMore information at openeye.org.u k.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/05/1-scaled-1.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR