OLEKSANDR SUPRUNYUK. WYWIAD Z MAJDANU. tekst i video Polski

OLEKSANDR SUPRUNYUK. WYWIAD Z MAJDANU.

grupa LINIA PROSTA, 2014

Tłumaczenie: Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Polska / Translation: Labirynt gallery, Lublin, Poland

Nasza grupa „Linia Prosta” pod koniec marca przeprowadziła obszerny wywiad z Ołeksandrem Supruniukiem, 51-letnim właścicielem kompanii budowlanej z miasta Netiszyn w obwodzie Chmielnickim. Był on od wielu lat organizatorem i uczestnikiem licznych inicjatyw: Pomarańczowej Rewolucji z 2004 roku, Automajdanu itd.  Na Majdanie był od pierwszych dni, od listopada ubiegłego roku. Aktywnie uczestniczył w miasteczku namiotowym Majdanu i był członkiem 38-mej sotni im. Ustyma Hołodniuka.

Oczywiście widzieliście w Internecie wiele zdjęć z Majdanu. Ukazany w nich jest obraz działań i niektóre krótkie i spontaniczne wywiady z ludźmi. My chcieliśmy zrobić poważny wywiad, aby zapewnić chwilę refleksji zarówno autsajderom, jak też samym uczestnikom Majdanu. 

The new version of the video from the Straight line: "Oleksandr Suprunyuk. Interview from the Maidan / Олександр Супрунюк. Інтерв‘ю з Майдану"

The new version of the video from the Straight line:  Oleksandr Suprunyuk / Олександр Супрунюк. Інтерв‘ю з Майдану"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmNDtvup8c

Our group Straight line conducted a long interview at the end of March with Oleksandr Suprunyuk a 51-year-old construction-company owner from Netishyn town, Khmelnytsky region. He has been an organizer and participant of many initiatives for many years, in orange revolution 2004, in Avtomajdan, etc. He was from the first days on the Maidan in november last year. He has been heavily involved in Majdan tents and was a member of the 38th division of the protesters’ defense force (Sotnya).

You certainly saw many images on the Internet about Majdan. There are images of actions and some short and spontaneous interviews of people. We wanted to do a serious interview, to provide a moment of reflection to the outsiders of Majdan,

Oleksandr Suprunyuk. Interview from the Maidan.

Maidan camp, March 24, 2014.

Oleksandr Suprunyuk, Netishyn town, Khmelnytsky region, entrepreneur.

- Why did you come to the Maidan? When exactly did you decide to park at the place and what grassroot movements took place at the Maidan overall? Who came and when? Which movements developed? Members of which movements have left or lost interest? What is happening now?

This is not my first time to be at the Maidan. I have teamed up with the Asambleya (The Assembly) civil movement group and The Small and Medium-size Enterprises in Ukraine, as well as ‘Vilnyi Prostir’ civil movement. We have actively participated in various protests, car rallies and other activities to defend our members and resist the  passing of the draconian Tax Lawbook in 2010.

In 2010 we pitched tents in the Maidan. They got torn down. There’s nothing new in presence here. But this particular Maidan – probably it was our last hope for saving Ukraine from all this oppression which Yanukovych and his criminal regime has brought along. It inoculated totalitarianism in Ukraine which practically began to turn into a dictator’s sanctuary where I personally had two options – either run away from the country or be opressed and be a person with no future.

Ever is Over All

Pipilotti Rist, video installation, 1997

Favourite Places

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Ivan Melnychuk, 2009

Paweł Althamer, Bródno 2000

watch the video Paweł Althamer Bródno 2000

The project Bródno 2000 is an outstanding example of what Paweł Althamer calls “directing reality”. In February 2000, the artist talked his neighbours from the block of flats in 13 Krasnobrodzka St. (Warsaw’s district of Bródno) into turning the lights on and off in specific rooms. The windows of rooms with the lights on jointly formed the number “2000” on the facade. The half-hour action involved around 200 families, with scouts assisting in the organisation of the event. The simple gesture initiated by the artist triggered a variety of activities – the artistic action evolved into a festivity, complete with dance music and a firework display, involving the local authorities, animators and a priest. Althamer’s commitment to animating community life stems from his belief in the determining force of the immediate environment and in the activating role of the artist, “who can use a simple gesture to make us think outside the box”. The project’s significative capacity suggests roots in Oskar Hansen's concept of Open Form – still alive at Grzegorz Kowalski’s workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

References: Paweł Althamer zachęca, exhibition catalogue, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2005.

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2000
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David Lamelas, Time, 1970