Time Based is a project that brings together American and Ukrainian artists working with music, dance and performance. Artists from the USA became mentors to their Ukrainian colleagues — each group had 10 meetings to create a collaborative work
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According to Olga Bekenstein, curator of Am I Jazz?, since most of the current musical genres originated in the United States, ‘it was quite logical and ethical to contact representatives of this country’ with the proposal of such cooperation.
American artists were invited to the Time Based project ‘on the principle of making the most diverse lineup possible’. Ukrainian artists applied for open-call, indicating which artist they would like to see as their mentor. After the mentors had shortlisted the participants, they chose the project for which they would be most useful.
‘Time-based arts is another name for arts in which duration is an integral component. These include, for example, music, performative arts, video, etc. This project is about sound in its various implementations. But besides the formal part, this title also emphasizes the relevance of both the aesthetic component and the political one, as well as the respect for the time in which we live, with all its challenges and gifts’, Bekenstein describes the project.
She also notes that this project is important for the development of horizontal ties between artists from different countries, creation of new artistic works and presentation of ‘progressive Ukrainian culture’.
The Time Based team also plans to organize live performances in the future.
Mykhailo Romanyshyn, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer
Mykhailo Romanyshyn is a Lviv-based composer and arranger who works in the genres of neoclassical music, its mixture with electronic and alternative music, and jazz.
Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer are a modular synthesizer and viola duo. Honer played on recordings by Chloe x Halle, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes and Stanley Clarke.
Yevheniia Melkonian, Hanna Kyrychyshyna, Tetiana Tenenbaum
Yevheniia Melkonian is an independent artist, singer and performer who focuses on Ukrainian and Armenian folk singing, vocal improvisation, audiovisual art, performance, tribal and Indian dance, and butoh. Her areas of interest include creativity, indigenous cultures, spirituality, shamanism, voice and sound, female identity, corporeality, and the mystical journey inherent in every human being.
Hanna Kyrychyshyna is a choreographer, contemporary dance teacher and physiotherapist. She is the founder of the #HOLOVY dance theater, organizer of improvisation evenings under the #KYIVIMPRONIGHT brand.
Tetiana Tenenbaum creates and organizes her projects in interaction with her personal background in dance, performance and embodied vocal research.
Kseniia Slobodian and John Hollenbeck
Kseniia Slobodian is a pianist, arranger and composer. She is a participant of Ukrainian and Polish jazz festivals such as Cho Jazz (Chodzież, Poland) and Szczecin Jazz (Szczecin, Poland).
For Time Based, she created her first ever scores for Big Band.
John Hollenbeck is a six-time Grammy nominee and winner of the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Contest in 1995 and 2002. He was a professor of Jazz Drums and Improvisation at the Jazz Institute Berlin from 2005 to 201
We told you about the first works created for Time Based — video performance ‘Sub-sur-face’ by musician Khrystyna Kirik and New York artist and composer Julia Santoli, and live recording by electronic producer Bunht and the band ShchukaRyba — in our article.
