DE NE DE
DE NE DE is a self-organized artistic initiative that brings together participants to study and preserve cultural heritage in the context of ideological shifts. The initiative implemented a number of projects, which were to study the processes of "decommunization" in different regions of Ukraine. The focus of DE NE DE is public spaces and monumental art, cultural infrastructure of the Soviet period and local history museums. DE NE DE finds them, interferes in their existence, actualizes and, in some places, fills them with new meanings and meanings.
For the organization of collective creative work DE NE DE uses the metaphor of a public meeting and avoids a formal curatorial approach. Participants have the opportunity to present independent and alternative views on the problem, acting on the principles of self-organization.
Nad Bohom art residency
Since 2015, Nad Bohom art residency has been taking place every two years in Rosiia cinema. The initiative emerged out of the necessity to tackle the issue of the cinema’s future. Three times DE NE DE initiative, which originated in 2015 as part of the residency, aimed to preserve the cultural and infrastructural potential of the place or find ways to transform it.
Nad Bohom residency takes place in the cinema building. Participants are first introduced to the place and the city of Vinnytsia. For two weeks of the residency, the large cinema hall on the second floor is used as a common workshop in which each participant works on their individual projects. At the same time, the auditorium hosts a public program—lectures, discussions, presentations, screenings, and parties.
- Formulating a new narrative and concept for the space and the surrounding area, which will serve as an integral part of the cultural infrastructure of the community, the region and the country as a whole;
- Searching for spatial solutions (outside and inside) provided that the original appearance is preserved as one of the few objects that has retained a pure modernist form;
- Developing a model of interaction between the owner of the building, grassroots initiatives and cultural managers, to form a business model and strategy for its implementation.
All premises of the cinema Rosiia are available to residents.
Rooms for 6 or 8 people in a hostel.
Location is in non-functioning modernist cinema Rosiia (“Russia”) which is located in the center of Vinnytsia, a city in west-central Ukraine. Vinnytsia is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It has a population of over 300,000.