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<pre dir="ltr" id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037tw-target-text"><span style="font-size:14px"><b><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv) is happy to announce an experimental performative project SAMBATAS</span></b></span></pre>

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<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><i><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">Many other walled towns have been razed to the ground by </b></i></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><i><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura</b></i></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">SAMBATAS STAGINGS is an experimental performative project that draws on the and imagery of urban ruin to find new ways of using the public space in times of social distancing. It takes form as a series of process-oriented, collectively produced performances, readings, rituals and writing sessions  that depart from the poem De Rerum Natura by Titus Lucretius Carus. Opening up the hidden potentials of urban space, these practices are activating the abandoned ruins in a garden off of Petrivska street in central Kyiv. This process will culminate in a public gathering and performance on August 19th.</b></p>
 

<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">Sambatas is alleged to be an ancient city that may or may not have existed alongside Kyiv. Sambatas is thought to have been raised to the ground in the first millennium AD. Today, in the second millennium, a similar fate is threatening certain parts of the city of Kyiv, like the area of Petrivska street that fell prey to a number of landslides. Sambatas Stagings takes place at the site of those landslides to make Lucretius’ philosophies of flux present in contemporary Kyiv.</b></p>
 

<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">Sambatas Stagings merges performance, music, experimental pedagogy, and media art. It is organized by Red Forest together with a group of artists convened around the abandoned territory of Petrivska Street in Kyiv aka ХАЩІ.</b></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">Red Forest is a collective that works on the intersections of research, art, political imagination, and social actions. Red Forest are: Diana McCarty , Mijke van der Drift, David Munoz Alcantara  and Oleksiy Radynski </b></p>
 

<p dir="ltr" style="color:#255210;line-height:100%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><b id="m_-4551215319933755406m_2575699532115111149m_-1653232326119709037docs-internal-guid-208d1692-7fff-061e-2ff3-0a44ba4bb31d">David Munoz Alcantara an artist, architect and researcher, Helsinki</b></p>

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