LVIV.- On 21 June, Faktura 10, a core initiative of RIBBON International, will open a major international exhibition and discursive platform curated by Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10, to include:

Nobuyoshi Araki, Gregori Warchavchik, Francisco Goya, Moyra Davey, Trisha Donnelly, R. H. Quaytman, Frederick Kiesler, Yana Kononova, Kateryna Kopeikina, Anna-Mariia Kucherenko, Clarice Lispector, Boris Mikhailov, Noel Nutels, Janina Pedan, Julie Poly, Charlotte Posenenske, Walid Raad, Oleksiy Radynski, Yaroslav Solop, Taras Spivak, Harun Farocki, The Centre for Spatial Technologies

With works co-commissioned by Faktura 10/ RIBBON International, and Jam Factory Art Center, The Stammering Circle is a distributed exhibition on view at locations throughout Lviv, addressing disruption as dysfluency—a “stammering” that makes room for the pause essential to the exhibition of art in the context of war. What are the forms and expressions—beyond mourning, loss, and requiem—that seize on instability to make a space to create resonantly? The Stammering Circle draws inspiration from the writings of Czernowitz-born Paul Celan to respond to these questions. The poet, who in the aftermath of the trauma of World War II emphasized art’s need to roam in an “art-less, art-free manner.”

The Stammering Circle encompasses the visual, the auditory, the performative, and the dialogic, to embrace testimony, historical material, archival documentation, and a myriad of discussions that acknowledge the lived experience of war as posited within art production. The exhibition is woven throughout the city of Lviv with a fixed exhibition site at the Jam Factory Art Center, and further locations including Dim42 LPE “Lviv Radio” and the Machine Hall of Lviv Polytechnic National University.

The Chalk Circle: public programming

The Stammering Circle conjoins concepts brought forth by Paul Celan and wrestles with ideas around truth, justice, and social responsibility as threads of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Inspired by this, the public programme is entitled Chalk Circle.

It will run in parallel with the exhibition to frame the thinking around projects by artists, cultural producers, thinkers, philosophers, architects, musicians, and composers who engaged with The Stammering Circle.

Chalk Circle programming, featuring Ina Blom, Gerd Zillner, Peter Osbourne, Oleksiy Radynski, Julie Poly, Janina Pedan with Katya Kopeikina and Anna-Mariia Kucherenko, Moyra Davey and Walid Raad will occur until June 27 at various locations throughout Lviv, including Jam Factory Art Center, the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Home of Sound LPE “Lviv Radio” Dim Zvuku, among others.