American Arts Incubator
24 January 2018
On March 7, 2018, IZOLYATSIA presented the American Arts Incubator (AAI) project that has been held at the IZONE Creative Community until March 30, 2018. It is an international cultural exchange initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs that is administered by ZERO1. American artists are sent abroad to team up with local community members and organisations to address a relevant social challenge, such as economic equity or cleanliness of the environment, using public art and technology projects.
Embedded within American Arts Incubator is a small grants programme to fund community-driven art projects that is being implemented in this cycle’s chosen countries: Ecuador, Egypt, India, Morocco, Poland, and Ukraine.
In March 2018, the American artist Tiare Ribeaux travelled to Kyiv for one month to lead the American Arts Incubator in Ukraine. She taught workshops that combined art and technology skills to address identity, place, and the relationship of culture, industry and ecology in Kyiv and greater Ukraine.
Project Schedule:
March 7 – Tiare Ribeaux’s artist talk as part of the Art Wednesday project
March 10-17 – intensive workshops for selected participants
March 29 – project results presentation in the form of an exhibition
Tiare Ribeaux is a Hawaiian-American new media artist and curator. She is the founder and artistic director at B4BEL4B Gallery which is focused on innovation, radical inclusivity, and the showcasing of women and underrepresented groups in technology and media arts spaces. She holds a deep interest in provoking conversation and uncovering truths around opaque global systems that intersect with our daily lives. Tiare has a background in fashion design and biotechnology, and has shown work both nationally and internationally, including ISEA Hong Kong, Transmediale Berlin, and Tokyo Fashion Week.
A global network of American Arts Incubator projects will emerge through an online exchange between American artists and international participants, with involvement from U.S. embassies as well as arts, culture, and education organisations. This network will demonstrate how public art and creative collaboration can be used as tools to build community, address pressing social challenges, and promote cross-cultural understanding. More information is available at americanartsincubator.org
FINAL EXHIBITION EMERGENT TRIBUTARIES
The exhibition Emergent Tributaries is the culmination of the project American Arts Incubator in Ukraine which spanned the month of March and was led by visiting new media artist Tiare Ribeaux. This new media exhibition will showcase 5 collaborative projects from 32 artists from Ukraine. These works use speculative design and design fiction to reimagine future architectures, artifacts, and networked ecologies in Ukraine and along the Dnipro river. They all look towards Ukrainian cultural identity and heritage to inform their works, and include digital renders, 3D prints, textiles, video, and projections.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Curator:
Tiare Ribeaux
Participants:
Vitaliy Agapeyev, Julia Beliaeva, Ivanka Borodina, Alina Borysova, Oksana Chepelyk, Yurii Efranov, Umka Estebanovna, Iren Proskurina, Anna Kakhiani, Alena Klochko, Irina Kostyshina, Krolikowski Art Duo, Nastya Loyko, Ann Manankina, Alyona Mamay, Oleksandr Manukians, Bogdan Moroz, Maria Proshkowska, Bogdan Seredyak, Hanna Shumska, Ekateryna Shiman, Olya Vashchevska, Alla Sorochan, Olga Synyakevych, Olga Tereshchenko, Anna Korniets, Oleg Suslenko, Serhii Nezhinsky, Yaroslav Kostenko, Michael Rozanov, Oleksiy Yalovega, Krolikowski Art and Tiare Ribeaux.
Exhibition opening:
March 29, 2018, 7 PM
Schedule:
March 29 – April 5, 2018, Monday to Sunday, 12 PM – 8 PM
Address:
IZONE Creative Community, vul. Naberezhno-Luhova 8, Fourth Floor