Lera Malchenko was a co-founder of the Construction Festival, but has since left the team.
Many of Ukraine’s most powerful capitalists and politicians hail from Dnipro for this reason. On this subject, see Yuliya Yurchenko, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (Pluto Press, 2018).
Together, we have since installed electricity in this abandoned part of the park, cut down all the dangerous trees, and cleaned up the area. We dismantled the stage after two years of use, but the space is still actively used by the public even now, and public services clean and maintain it.
The exhibition was curated by Milena Khomchenko, Yulia Krivich, and Clemens Poole.
Curated by Clemens Poole and Kateryna Rusetska, the festival was devoted to reconstruction initiatives and held under the title Ukrainian Hardcore; the accompanying discussion programme, “Radical Reconstruction: Re-Rooting the Ukrainian Commons” was curated by Michał Murawski and Kateryna Rusetska.
Curated by Diana Khalilova, Kateryna Rusetska, Cicely Farrer, and Laura Mansfield.