Faktura 10: The Mark on the Wall

Join Faktura 10 for the inauguration of the yearlong project and multimodal platform that reflects upon an emerging landscape for creative life and cultural discourse in Ukraine, hosted on Friday, March 28th from 6–8:30pm, at Judd Foundation at 101 Spring Street.

A program of RIBBON International, Faktura 10 is conceived as 10 events in the form of exhibitions, performances, plays, screenings, research projects, and discussions which will be realised throughout Ukraine, as well as within communities and cities of solidarity internationally over the course of 2025.

On this inaugural evening Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator for Faktura 10, will be joined by Richard Maxwell, theater director, playwright, and founder and Artistic Director of New York City Players for a conversation introducing the project.

Following this introduction, the evening transitions into a panel discussion entitled Mark on the Wall, co-moderated by Marta Kuzma, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10, with Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture.

The title of the inaugural panel is drawn from Virginia Woolf’s 1917 short story by the same name. Written following the end of World War I, Woolf addresses the suppression of traumatic experience and images as she contends with a personal memory marred by war. The discussions will attempt to address how, with destabilized recollections to draw upon, this search for truth is redefining frameworks for art and culture produced under conditions of violence and forced occupation.

This event is free and open to the public though advance registration is encouraged. Please note priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, though advance registration does not guarantee admission once the event reaches capacity.

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Faktura 10 is a multimodal platform that supports a common basis for creative life and cultural discourses in Ukraine. It focuses on artist practices evolving within the immediacies of the war and its aftermath. Faktura 10 is conceived of ten events in the form of exhibitions, performances, plays, screenings, research projects, and discussions to be held throughout 2025, taking place within Ukraine, as well as within communities and cities of solidarity internationally. Faktura 10 is a working concept that revolves around cultural autonomy. Faktura 10 engages with the free play of knowledge, theory, art, and reality on the ground.

Marta Kuzma serves as the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10. The Faktura 10 program will be announced throughout 2025. Learn more here.

Faktura 10 is a program of RIBBON International, a platform supporting historic and contemporary Ukrainian arts and culture in the form of exhibitions, artist commissions, public programs and grants. RIBBON runs through Ukraine by way of its railway system. Marking nearly three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, RIBBON aims to provide support to the endangered legacies of Ukraine’s cultural and artistic heritage, as well as to artists, cultural producers, contemporary culture and institutions throughout Ukraine in their fight for cultural autonomy.