Mykhaylo Barabash

Interdisciplinary curator and artist who works at the crossroads of different genres: new media, installation, painting, performance, land art, and graphic techniques. Lecturer of the Contemporary Art Practices Department, the Lviv National Academy of Art.

26.07.2025, 15.30 – 16.30 – Nest. (non)Returning (45 min.) – multimedia performance by NURT (UA)

Large educational hall, 6 Kolegialna Street

Nest. (non)Returning

The metaphor of “native nest” concerns the physical connection with place, culture, and self-identification. Birds have been migrating for thousands of years, following the same routes every time, creating itineraries. Nowadays, the migration paths of birds that are flying around the front lines resemble the world’s historical map which is full of blind spots.

The possibility to come back to the so-called “nest” is an unconditional indicator of avoiding tragic socio-political and cultural events.

Art Group NURT

NURT is a multidisciplinary group of Ukrainian artists that works in the field of audiovisual and digital art, performances, and concerts founded in 2011 by artist Mykhaylo Barabash and composer Ostap Manulyak in Lviv. Other artists are also involved in various projects, among them: Yuriy Bulka, Ostap Manko, Sergiy Petlyuk, Roman Haideichuk, Yaryna Shumska etc. During the last few years, the art group presented several performances incorporating different digital and analog techniques. Art Group NURT works with a variety of topics – such as war and ecology, culture, and history.

27.07.2025, 11.40 – 12.20 – Tetramatyka –  audio-visual and interactive art festiwal in Lvov

Assembly Hall, 6 Kolegialna Street

Festival of the audiovisual art TETRAMATYKA was founded in Lviv 2013. The Festival concentrated on multimedia and interactive art. Also focused on the branch of contemporary art, connected with an actual sphere of human activities  and IT. The Festival represent works that join different forms of sensual and esthetic perception such as sound/music, video/animation, image, text, etc. Art works in which all these forms (sound/music, video/animation, image, text, interaction, new technologies) interweave in one presentational place are the key works of festival program. Important aspect of the Festival is revealing the potential of IT in art works.