Faktura 10: The Mark On The Wall

The inauguration of the yearlong project, Faktura 10, that reflects on the emerging creative life and cultural discourse in Ukraine 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 flagship initiative 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 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; Michal Murawski, cultural anthropologist, Associate Professor in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, co-curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion at Venice Biennale Architettura 2025; and Marcus Coelen, psychoanalyst and lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich; Discussants include Maxim Kolomiiets, composer, oboist and performer; Oleksiy Radynski, filmmaker and member of Kyiv’s, Reckoning Project; Maksym Rokmaniko, researcher and founder of the Center for Spatial Technologies; Brad Samuels, director of SITU Research, and visiting professor at Cooper Union; Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago, and Andriy Andrusevich, environmentalist and Strategic Environmental Assessment consultant to the European ECO Forum. 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. Image: Yana Kononova, “Study No. 5 for 27 Seconds,” 2022, Silver gelatin print, Courtesy of Yana Kononova. More Info below.