PHOTOS OF SICHOVYKH STRILTCIV STREET
Dmytro Levytskyi (Kiev)
Schedule
Dmytro Levytskyi’s eyes dance around Kyiv’s Sichovykh Striltciv Street – from the Lukianivskyi Market to the Lvivska Square. He looks around, blinks, raises his head, scanning the façades with his eyes.
From 2022 to the beginning of 2023, the artist and photographer documented his strolls with a camera, chronicling the stories belonging to the individual images. This resulted in a photo album that shows the traces the war left within the urban surroundings. Pictures of deserted squares on the one and of everyday situations on the other hand tell an impressive tale of life in a city that is bound by a state of emergency.
During the festival, the audience will be invited to a guided audio file tour through the album, to become acquainted with the people and the stories behind the photographies: The photographer himself, his fitness trainer, a marketer woman, a Kyiv director… If the Ukrainian capital is mainly in the news as a theatre of war nowadays, Dmytro Levytskyi shifts the focus onto a different Kyiv for a moment: A Kyiv where people play table tennis, pizza deliveries cruise, and people protest the demolition of historical buildings and cultural centres.
Biography
Dmytro Levytskyi travels the intersections between theatre and audiovisual art. He is mainly interested in audio walks and in interventions in urban space. He conceived of the THE WALKS app in collaboration with Rimini Protokoll. He is a founding member of the Miskyi Theatre in Kyiv who have made it their task to consider urban spaces artistically, transforming them into stages. He most recently produced four audio walks dealing with the Ukraine war, as part of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian OÏDA project.
Cast
Photographies, Text, Audio Dmytro Levytskyi Editing Evdokymova Translation Yulia Didokha Music Ivan Skoryna Design & Layout Airida Rekstyte English translation Sonya Tarasevych German translation Jutta Lindekugel Voice of German language Malik MeyerDmytro Levyzkyj travels the intersections between theatre and audiovisual art. He is mainly interested in audio walks and in interventions in urban space. He conceived of the THE WALKS app in collaboration with Rimini Protokoll. He is a founding member of the Miskyi Theatre in Kyiv who have made it their task to consider urban spaces artistically, transforming them into stages. He most recently produced four audio walks dealing with the Ukraine war, as part of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian OÏDA project.
Info
Please bring your own mobile device and suitable headphones.
Production & Realization
Production Miskyi Theater Supported by Goethe-Institute Ukraine
With thanks to Dima, Mykola Oleksandrovych, Klementyna, Miss Larysa, Olia, Liosha, Andrii, Volodymyr Ivanovych, Nana, Anton, my mother, Andrii, Viktor, Dima, Taia, and Lida for the preparation of this photo album, as well as Sichovykh Striltciv street in Kyiv
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