Installation view: Live Stream, 2020
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020 
Photo: Maksym Bilousov
2020

Live Stream


Video, color, sound, 17’
Main Prize, PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020


Live Stream which is thought to have been documentary footage, refers to the topic of constructing reality and actualizes the question of the meaning of an image in the contemporary visual age.

According to the story, men dressed in military uniform, which resembles the Red Army clothes, perform a dance after a long preparation. The group’s choreography is disrupted by random people who cross the corridor past the dancers. Focusing on people’s reactions to the dance of the Red Army soldiers, the artists emphasize that the image has been separated from the content today. For instance, people react to the dance of the Red Army soldiers in the same way as if it was a dance of prehistoric tribal conquerors. The corridor chosen for filming starts to resemble a zone where transgression happens, where history encounters the present, reality encounters fiction, and image encounters matter. In this transitory situation, the artists ask, how do we assess the quality, meaning and functions of a moving picture today? What is left of reality in it?


Installation view: Live Stream, 2020
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020 
Photo: Maksym Bilousov




Installation view: Live Stream, 2020
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020 
Photo: Maksym Bilousov




Installation view: Live Stream, 2020 
So They Won’t Say We Don’t Remember solo exhibition, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland, 2022 
Photo: Tytus Szabelski-Różniak


Directed and filmed by
Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei

Preformed by
Honoured Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Filmed at
National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine

Producer
Iryna Kovalchuk  

Sound director 
Serhiy Avdeev 

Colorist 
Vadim Khudoliy

Production designer: Tereza Yakovyna

Casting 
Valeriya Zherih, Marija Pogrebniak

Production assistant 
Kateryna Ulyanova

Special thanks to
Alexandra Tryanova, Bjorn Geldhof and Kateryna Iakovlenko