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Featuring artist-in-residence Margarita Kuleva in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Margarita Kuleva is an artist, researcher, and curator. She is based in New York and teaches at NYU as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies Department. In her research and art projects, she mainly uses ethnography, institutional interventions, and performance as methods. She is interested in exploring social inequalities in artistic production and boundaries in access to culture. In her performance practice, she explores the opportunities of urban sites such as public swimming pools or beauty salons to design more horizontal and inclusive forms of public education.
✨On Wednesday October 8, Margarita will present “INHALE/EXHALE”, a new installation with large helium balloons featured inside the RU space that explores migration as embodied identity and a bureaucratic process. This research-based project centers around self-ethnographic experience and interviews Kuleva conducted with artists and academics who had to flee their home countries due to political reasons. The interviews often describe the precarity of new migrant life through somatic features: holding breath, hardships to breathe, or deep inhales as a metaphor of freedom (in Russian: дышать полной грудью, breathe life freely).
“INHALE/EXHALE” opens October 8 at 5:00 PM at 360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY. The installation will be on view October 9–10 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Come experience it at Residency Unlimited’s space in Brooklyn!
Margarita Kuleva’s residency is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and thanks to the New York City Artist Safe Haven Residency Program, a coalition led by ArtistSafety.net, Artistic Freedom Initiative, and Residency Unlimited.
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