March 28, 2025
New York 10012
USA
On Friday, March 28, Faktura 10, a multimodal program that reflects upon an emerging landscape for creative life and cultural discourse in Ukraine, will launch at the Judd Foundation with The Mark on the Wall. The discussion will address how the war in Ukraine has blurred the boundaries between art, evidence, law, and journalism.
A core initiative of RIBBON International, Faktura 10 is conceived as 10 events in the form of exhibitions, performances, plays, screenings, research projects, and discussions which will be realized throughout Ukraine, as well as within communities and cities of solidarity internationally over the course of 2025. Faktura 10’s projects will be introduced by Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10, in conversation with Richard Maxwell, founder and Artistic Director of New York City Players, and a commissioned artist of Faktura 10.
Marta Kuzma writes that “Faktura 10 is divided into ten separate projects—its spine constituted by The Stammering Circle, an exhibition hosted across institutional venues in Lviv, and which draws inspiration from the writings of Paul Celan, the Czernovitz-born poet, who, in the aftermath of tragedy and trauma, emphasized art’s need to roam in an “art-less, art-free manner”—thus enabled to wander through alternative routes of lived experience.’”
The Mark on the Wall discussions will provide a framework for an ongoing conversation around cultural production and visual accountability, advocacy and art, and the architectures of occupation, while exploring how war provokes art to interface with the evidentiary, criminal investigation, data collection, and the realities of the deliberate destruction of nature.
The evening’s central discussion, co-moderated by Marta Kuzma, Professor of Art at Yale School of Art, and Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, will gather filmmakers, artists, architects, cultural producers, and human rights activists, amongst others, each of whom adopt practices and modes of production located within documentary traditions, but which have now been extended into categories of cultural production reshaped amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
With the participation of Oleksiy Radynski, Maksym Rokmaniko, Brad Samuels, Nathaniel Raymond, Michał Murawski, Maxim Kolomiiets, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Andriy Andrusevych and Marcus Coelen.
Admission to the event is free. Places are limited and booking is required. RSVP via events@scott-andco.com
About Faktura 10
A core initiative of RIBBON International, Faktura 10 is a multimodal project that supports a common basis for creative life and cultural discourses in Ukraine. It focuses on artist practices evolving within the immediacies of the war and its aftermath. Faktura 10 is conceived of ten events in the form of exhibitions, performances, plays, screenings, research projects, and discussions to be held throughout 2025, taking place within Ukraine, as well as within communities and cities of solidarity internationally.
About RIBBON
RIBBON International is a platform supporting historic and contemporary Ukrainian arts and culture in the form of exhibitions, artist commissions, public programs and grants. RIBBON runs through Ukraine by way of its railway system and aims to provide support to the endangered legacies of Ukraine's cultural and artistic heritage, as well as to artists, cultural producers, contemporary culture and institutions throughout Ukraine in their fight for cultural autonomy.
