/українська версія нижче/
Your rain and my rain
While being in quarantine and self-isolation, we are confronted with a dual sense of disconnection and connection. The reason for this may be the online space where many communications are now transferring.
We’re apart. At the same time, we’re together. Touring through artists’ analog communication, Alex Fisher will reflect on how we connect, why we connect, and what our connection looks like — the guilt and the gladness. To paraphrase Endre Tót, your rain is not my rain. Although they are side by side.
Alex Fisher is an art historian, writer, and curator from Buffalo, now based in Kyiv.
Fisher has been engaged with the Ukrainian contemporary art context since 2017, and he has been living in Kyiv since 2019, conducting research as a Fulbright scholar in association with IZOLYATSIA and the Laboratory of Contemporary Art at Mystetskyi Arsenal.
While on Fulbright, he has written about developments in Ukrainian art for This is Badland, Kajet Journal, PIN-UP, VONO, C-print, and BLOK, amongst others. He has also worked on projects of Anton Belinskiy, Mykola Ridnyi, the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative, and Gurtobus. He has also lectured at America House Kyiv and at museums and cultural centers from Mykolaiv to Sumy.
Fisher’s practice is rooted in deepening representation of and critical thinking around conceptual, experimental, and environmental contemporary art, primarily that is site-specific and exists beyond large urban centers.
*Lecture was in English