on January 15 at 17.00
Exhibitions "Decolonial ecologies. To understand the post-colonial after socialism", we invite you to the performance of Ukrainian artists Mark Tokar (double bass) and Olia Mihailiuk (video).
Mark Tokar is a Ukrainian double bass player, composer and improviser. Studied music in Lviv, Krakow and Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. His first album "Yatoku" together with Yuriy Yaremchuk (Ukraine) and Klaus Kugel (Germany) was released on Not Two (2006). Since 2007, he has been a member of the Ken Vandermark Resonance Project (since 2007) and the lead musician of the Mark Tokar Quintet. He has played in many bands and projects at various festivals in USA, Germany, Poland, Poland, Austria, France, Italy, Hungary, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine. Mark is the first Ukrainian musician to perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival. Co-author of several cross-media projects, especially co-authored with the artist Oļu Mihaļukas.
Since March 2022, Mark Tokar has been serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Olia Mihailiuk lives and works in Kyiv. In 2007, together with like-minded people, she created the ArtPole agency, which brings together representatives of several creative fields - painters, musicians and writers. She continues to develop the interplay of different art forms, mainly performance, music, literature and video art. In her performances, Olia tries to study the original meaning of words, referring to a system of emotional signs and symbols created by herself. Since February 2022, when full-scale war broke out, she has been working as a volunteer at a humanitarian aid center in Kyiv. Since April, she has been regularly going to Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv that was brutally destroyed and looted in March, planting plants and flowers with local residents and documenting stories about them.
Šis pasākums tiek īstenots projekta “Līdzību salas: kolektīva rokasgrāmata ilgtspējīgām un iekļaujošām mākslas institūcijām” ietvaros, ko atbalsta Eiropas Savienība un Latvijas Republikas Kultūras ministrija.
