Carbonarium

Theme: THE BODY OF THE CITY 7th – 9th June, Kyiv, Ukraine. Carbon Art Space, National Expocenter, pavilion 13, Academica Glushkova Avenue 1

For the 2019 edition of the Carbonarium festival, we wish to embrace the notion of the body and the city, the relation between the two, the metaphor of a city as a body. The city as a living entity which provides us – the “microorganisms” living in it - with both opportunities as well as restrictions. Cities of the world are growing and growing with over half of the planet population currently living in them. Do we like it or not cities are our future. Artists are often using the urban environment as a source of inspiration for their work. In many cases, cities are even the main protagonists for various art productions while simultaneously providing the set where the works are being created and presented. The entire art forms, such as graffiti, would not exist if there would not be cities. Also for performance and body artists cities are common “venues” due to the improvisational and flexible nature of the medium. Curators: Pınar Derin Gençer, Antonín Brinda, Oleksiy Zaitsev Organizer: Carbon (Kyiv, Ukraine) Co-founders: Alexandra Khalepa, Oleksiy Zaitsev Festival partners: Performance Crossings 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic), Stockholm Performance Art (Stockholm, Sweden), Istanbul Performance Art (Istanbul, Turkey), Performensk 2019 (Minsk, Belarus), Zelyonka Space Up (Kyiv, Ukraine)