Art Project PANOPTIPCON II
18 May 2013, Lviv, Memorial museum
“Prison at Lontskoho steet”, as a part of the Night of Museums.
Panopticon (Greek: pan — all, optikos — healthy)
In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy
Bentham designed a concept of prison building Panopticon, which allowed
a watchman to observe inmates of an institution at the same time prisoners had
no opportunity to know if they were watched or not.
In 1975 Michel Foucault published his “Discipline and Punish”. A Panopticon in
this work is shown not as an architectural concept but as archetypal image of
new contemporary society, as model of control all society members and holding
power of one mind over others.
During the last decades a panopticon prison, in spite of all past horrors
of totalitarian regimes, was risen in real practice of governments, military
and secret services of different countries.
A process of destroying body and conquesting mind always returns like a
boomerang, opposing wildness and cruelty to our humaneness. And when we do not
realize what is our essence and what is a society, where is nature and where is
civilization – we fall into Panopticon.
Yarko Filevych
The Art project PANOPTICON II was held on May 18, 2013 in the Memorial museum
“Prison at Lontskoho steet”, as a part of the Night of Museums. Like in the
past year the PANOPTICON program consisted of three parts:
- visual (on a second floor of the museum)
- music and theoretical (on a first floor)
Art placates, video installations and art objects were represented in
visual part. (Authors: Mykhaylo Barabash, Tereza Barabash, Sergiy Petlyuk, Anatoliy
Tatarenko, Yarko Filevych, Oleksiy Khoroshko).
Short reports about cultural elite persecution in a second part of the XX century and Lviv
artists’ and intellectuals’ memoirs filled up the theoretical part.
A music part was made by works of composers of the ХХ – beginning of
the XXcentury, performed by
a contemporary music assemble “ConstantY”.
Thereza Barabash, "Forming", video object, 2013
May 18, 2012
program:
20.00 – 24:00 Exposition of video-installation "TURMA" by Mykhaylo Barabash and exposition of posters "PANOPTICON" by Yaroslav Filevych.
20.00 – 21:00 Ostap Manulyak's lecture about repression against music and musicians.
21.00 – 23:00 Concert of electroacoustic and multimedia works performing by ensemble of contemporary music "Con-Sonus...". Compositions by Bohdan and Yurko Bulka, Edgard Varese, Elliott Carter, Ostap Manulyak, Bohdan Sehin, Lubava Sydorenko, Karlheinz Stockhausen.
