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Featuring RU/YVAA artist in residence Oskar Helcel (@oskar_helcel), recipient of the 2024 Jindřich Chalupecký Award (@sjch_cz), in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Oskar Helcel is an audiovisual artist, photographer, and performer. His artistic work focuses on the mechanisms of late capitalism in the context of contemporary urban space. He has long worked with the topic of so-called “developerism” as a tool for the reproduction of capitalism, the privatization of cities for profit, and gentrification. His performative video essays reveal class and economic inequality, often in connection with specific locations to which he repeatedly returns. The broader social issues are interconnected with more intimate processes of perception such as the need for a home, the confrontation between the individual and corporations, and the emotional imbalance of real estate developers.
✨Oskar’s film, “Project Zaha: It’s Buildable” (2020) is on view in the exhibition “Landscapes That Influence” on Governors Island for 2 more weekends (July 19-20 & 26-27). Come see it at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row!
🎬 Join us on July 24 at the Czech Center New York (@czechcenternewyork) for “Floating Urban Landscapes”, a summer rooftop screening event featuring two films by Oskar — “The Flow Building” and “Topping Out a Tree”.
Oskar Helcel’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
