AR-Barcelona Residents, actor Alexei Yudnikov and screenwriter and director Sasha Denisova, were interviewed about their new play and making art in the time of war, which aired on BeTevé in Spain. Watch the programme: https://rb.gy/6dtl5m.
Denisova’s play, in which Yudnikov acts, is inspired by the story of her mother, 81-year-old Olga Ivanovna, who refused to leave the family home in Kyiv when the war in Ukraine broke out. In the play, called My Mother and the Invasion on a Large Scale, Denisova and Yudnikov tell the stories of civilians whose lives are shaped by the conflict. Yudnikov will be the only actor on stage and will play nearly twenty characters.
The artistic duo are now rehearsing the joint production that they’ve developed during their residency at the Fabra & Coats creative space provided by Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) and the Barcelona Municipality. The play will be presented at the CCCB – Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in March. Both artists are currently AR-Barcelona Residents, the former as an AR-ENSH Resident co-hosted by the CCCB, the latter as an AR-UNESCO Resident.
BeTevé programme, Spain
Aleksey Yudnikov is an AR-ENSH Resident at AR-Barcelona, initiated by the No Callarem platform and co-hosted by the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), a member of AR’s EU Creative Europe network “Artists at Risk (AR) – A European Network of Safe Havens” (AR-ENSH).
Sasha Denisova is an Artists at Risk (AR)-UNESCO Resident at AR-Barcelona in cooperation with the City of Barcelona Cultural Department and No Callarem and with the support of the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund and the UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals.
AR-Barcelona Residencies are co-funded by the City of Barcelona, which provides residency-spaces at Fabra I Coats, one of the municipality’s fàbriques de creació.
