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The Week in Art

Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural

Oct 26, 2023
48:08

This week: the first Kyiv Biennial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year is taking place in various locations across the wartorn country as well as a host of neighbouring European states. We talk to the co-curator, Georg Schöllhammer, about this year’s event. As refugees and displaced people continue to dominate the news, a global sound art project, Migration Sounds, aims to explore and reimagine the sounds of human migration and settlement. We speak to Stuart Fowkes, the founder of Cities and Memory, who has conceived the project with the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas). And this episode’s Work of the Week is Rebirth of a Nation, a mural made for Brixton Underground Station in London by the Ethiopian-Italian artist Jem Perucchini, which is unveiled next week. Jessica Vaughan, the senior curator of Art on the Underground, tells us about the commission.


The Kyiv Biennial continues to unfold into 2024, visit 2023.kyivbiennial.org


Cities and Memory’s Migration Sounds project, citiesandmemory.com/migrationcompas.ox.ac.uk


Jem Perucchini: Rebirth of a Nation, Brixton Underground Station, London, from 2 November.



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