MY OWN PRIVATE PARAJANOV
public talk
TO FORGET
Language: Russian with English translation
Duration: 60 min
TUE, 19 NOV, 21:30-22:30
Speakers:
Irina Kurtishvili, artist
Ilya Moshchitsky, director
Moderator:
Alla Shenderova, theatre critic
Irina Kurtishvili, artist
Ilya Moshchitsky, director
Moderator:
Alla Shenderova, theatre critic
According to the historian Steven Usitalo, the filmmaker “Sergei Parajanov, famously and sardonically, noted in various ways that he was an Armenian, born in Georgia, educated in Moscow, and arrested in Kiev for Ukrainian nationalism.” Covering only one dimension of Parajanov’s complex identity, this sentence does not even begin to describe him as an artist and rebel – “a creator of beauty in the dystopia of the Soviet regime,” in the words of Ilya Moshchitsky. Talking in the year of the 100th anniversary of the filmmaker’s birth, the participants of this discussion will discuss their personal entries into Parajanov’s world. What has this maverick taught them and what can he teach us? What techniques of resilience can we learn from Parajanov?
Speakers:
Irina Kurtishvili, artist
Ilya Moshchitsky, director
Moderator: Alla Shenderova, theatre critic
Irina Kurtishvili, artist
Ilya Moshchitsky, director
Moderator: Alla Shenderova, theatre critic
Contributors
ILYA MOSHCHITSKY
theater director
theater director
Graduated from the St. Petersburg Theater Academy in 2005 as a theater director, Ilya Moshchitsky has been a resident of the Vsevolod Meyerhold Center in Moscow. He creates cross-genre, transgressive performances in academic state theaters, on independent and experimental stages, and even in circuses. Moshchitsky is a laureate of the "Breakthrough" award for Best Director for the performance The Trial of John Demjanjuk. Holocaust Cabaret, and was nominated for the Golden Mask award for the performance The Book of Disquiet. He is also the founder of the theater company "Chronotope. Temporary Association." Since March 2022, Ilya Moshchitsky has been living and working in Yerevan.
IRINA KURTISHVILI
artist
artist
Irina Kurtishvili lives and works as an artist, curator and scenographer in Germany and Georgia. Over the past two decades, she has initiated and (co-)curated a number of architectural, artistic and cinematographic projects in Tbilisi as well as in Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich. In 2021, she founded AA Architecture Ambience – an independent platform that unites curatorial and artistic practice, research, archival and collecting work under one roof and aims for collaboration with a wider audience in Georgia and abroad. Further information about her can be found on the websites: www.irinakurtishvili.com and www.architectureambience.com.
ALLA SHENDEROVA
journalist, theatre critic
journalist, theatre critic
Alla Shenderova is former editor of Theatre magazine (2011–2022) and сurator of the "Gogol Plus" programme at the Moscow Gogol Centre. Author of numerous articles in specialised and socio-political media addressing issues in contemporary theatre. A member of the International Association of Critics (IACT), she has served as an expert and jury member at various festivals. She also lectures on theatre history. In 2017, Alla was a Fulbright Research Fellow and taught for a semester at Dixie State University in Utah, USA. She is currently teaching at the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius and continues to write for several German and Russian-language media outlets.