The World from The Art Biennale Perspectives and Through The Optics of The Venice Film Festival

Abstract

The Ukrainian project of the Open Group «The Shadow of Dream (Mriya) cast upon Giardini della Biennale» is researchedin the fairway of Ralph Rugoff’s curatorial concept «May You Live in Interesting Times» of the 58th Venice Biennale 2019 and the themesdeveloped in the other projects, taking into account the projection of these issues on the Ukrainian and world contexts are analyzed. Thecontexts with which the project works in Ukraine and in the world are compared. The issues addressed within the Venice Biennale onglobal environmental challenges, extensive growth, war and peace, ongoing confrontation of democratic and totalitarian worlds, migration crisis are studied. The process of revealing by artistic means how political manipulation works is revealed with a critical commentaryon the reality marked by economic and social inequality that provokes indignation, and as a result — populism. The mechanism of workwith trauma on the territory of art is determined. The multi-vector projects and different types of connection with reality are identified demonstrating the productive artistic strategies.The themes and artistic features of the films presented at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and its winners are analyzed and compared.The features of the Ukrainian film-winner of the Venice Film Festival 2019 «Atlantis» by Valentyn Vasyanovych are described. The chronology of the development of Valentin Vasyanovich’s film achievements is tracked.The main trend topics characteristic of the Venice Forums of 2019 are identified, such as the threats of the Anthropocene and the ecological crisis, anti-globalism in its economic, social and national aspects, and the orientation on the human values in the post-truth era.The influence of intellectual practice in the formation of meanings for dialogue with society challenging for the art world is determined.The role and place of Ukrainian contemporary art and cinema on the international stage are revealed. The problems and peculiaritiesof the cultural policy of Ukraine and the necessity of its reforme in order to support the development of contemporary art are outlined.