Still from Diana Azzuz's video work
Nazanin Noori performing with Diana Azzuz at the Rybachka premiere at CTM 2023. Photo: Udo Siegfriedt, 2023
Still from Diana Azzuz's video work
Katarina Gryvul performing with Alex Guevara at the Rybachka premiere at CTM 2023. Photo: Udo Siegfriedt, 2023
Diana Azzuz and Mariana Berezovska at CTM 2023. Photo: Frankie Casillo 2023
Nazanin Noori performing with Diana Azzuz at the Rybachka premiere at CTM 2023. Photo: Roland Owsnitzki, 2023
Rybachka brings together artists from different disciplines and backgrounds to honour collective resilience and speculative folklore. For the first edition premiered at CTM, I brought together collaborations between Ukrainian musician Katarina Gryvul and Peruvian multimedia artist Alex Guevara, and between the Syrian-Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist Diana Azzuz and the Iranian musician and artist Nazanin Noori.
Rybachka started as a reaction to the invasion and war in Ukraine, but the project will continue as a more universal exploration of the histories of our bodies that want to live. I am currently working on enabling further exchanges between artists who work in performance, video, set design, and fashion.
More about my vision behind Rybachka in "The History of Our Bodies,” my article commissioned as part of CTM 2023 – Portals.
Rybachka has been presented at the following locations:
CTM, HAU, Berlin, 2023
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 2023
CTM x ICA, London, October 2023
Stiftung Genshagen, November 2023
Kampnagel, Hamburg, December 2023
∄, Kyiv, April 2024
Donaufestival, Krems am Donau, April 2024
Nazanin Noori and Diana Azzuz performing at CTM Festival 2023
Kateryna Gryvul and Alex Guevara performing at CTM Festival 2023