Core Program Lecture | Dana Kavelina
Dana Kavelina
Dana Kavelina, Letter to a Turtledove, 2020, video, courtesy of the artist. © Dana Kavelina
April 22, 2023
The 2022–2023 Core Program Lecture Series continues with this talk. Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina works primarily with animation and video, as well as with installation, painting, and graphics. Kavelina’s art often addresses military violence and war, seen from the perspective of gender—especially with regard to victims as political subjects—and the distance between historical and individual trauma, and memory and misrepresentation.
Kavelina’s 2020 film Letter to a Turtledove has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is featured in the MoMA exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World (March 5–July 8, 2023). Previously based in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine, Kavelina has been a refugee in Germany since March 2022.
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Core Program lectures are open to the public, and admission is free. This event takes place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Core Residency Program
Established in 1982, the Glassell School of Art’s Core Residency Program offers postgraduate residencies for art critics and visual artists.
The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from The Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation; The Powell Foundation; and The Glassell Family Foundation.
Core fellowships have been underwritten by Anchorage Foundation of Texas; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.; Mr. Brad Blume; Ms. Bettie Cartwright; Mr. and Mrs. Jamal H. Daniel; Mr. Ronald A. Logan; and The Arch and Stella Rowan Foundation, Inc.