Sara NesterukRecipes for Baking Bread

National Museum « Holodomor vict ims Memorial »Kyiv, Residency and Exhibit ion partnership.

Dates21st August – 1st September 2017

Outl ine Descript ionI worked at the archives at the NationalMuseum « Holodomor vict ims Memorial » in Kyivfor a total of 2 weeks. For a residency andexhibit ion, in partnership with the museum.The exhibit ion was successful and extendedfor a further week, the work was shown in the galleries for a week after my departure.The project was run, organised, and createdin partnership with the museum, and supportedusing publ ic funding from Arts Council England,after I appl ied successfully for an Art istsInternational Development Award.The museum is a major archive and museumspace in Kyiv, holding the only nat ional andinternational collect ion of material andresources relat ing to Holodomor - genocide inUkraine in 1932-1933. The museum is undergoingexpansion, due to complete in the fol lowingfew years.The project is part of my ongoing research intoHolodomor, stories, ideas, exchanges andmaterial from the period, exploring motiongraphics, memory and meaning for communicat ion.

Research Problem / QuestionResponding to archives, found and collected material ,relat ing to Holodomor in Ukraine, 1932-1933. Usingdrawing and motion graphics, for archival use,exhibit ion and display.Contextual - l i terature review.Archives, and archival material , work of theAtlas group. Drawing and motion, memories anddocumenting meaning. The work of Stuart Hilton,Dryden Goodwin, Why Not Associates, Moth.The use of drawing on screen, i l lustrat ion andmotion graphics.Before the v is i t I read widely on Ukrainian andSoviet Histories, including work by Svetlana AlexievichAnna Reid, historical material by RobertConquest. During my visi t I consulted Ukrainianhistorical material , texts and archive documents.

Research Process.Drawings, fragments, observat ional material .Texts, notes and diagrams. Working productiondrawings. I l lustrat ions from texts and archives,museum sketches, sequential material . Drawingfrom text , documents, buildings and on locat ion.I collected information and ideas, at the museum, my commitment was to make 10seconds of motion work per day, for display andexhibit ion on project ion screens in the galleries.I was there for 8 working days, including v isi ts toother archives and weekends, the work wasshown from the second week on Tuesday, Idid a publ ic talk, press and interviews onThursday 31st August 2017.

Maps + Me.Working Process - day 8

PressInterviewsThursday 31st August 2017Image © CopyrightNational Museum « Holodomorvict ims Memorial », Kyiv.

Survivors Test imoniesDrawings from archivematerial on screen, held bythe National Museum« Holodomor vict ims Memorial»Kyiv, August 2017

Working DrawingWork created at theMuseum

Drawings were photographed, documented, andmotion work was created on site.

Signif icanceThe process is exploring new ideas, and ways towork with archive materials.The work, exhibit ion, and talk were reviewedby press and media in Kyiv, I d id a radiointerview for Ukraine Radio, and a TV interviewThe TV art icle can be v iewed onl ine herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4bKv7uspfw&feature=youtu.be

Original i tyThe work, and project , explored material that isunseen in the UK, and has been released recently,the events took place in 1932-1933, much of the material and information I had accesss to, hasbeen released and available publ icly s inceUkrainian Independence in 1991.The work is exploring very fast production ofmotion graphics, on-site, as a responsiveway of working. Motion graphics, as documentat ion,observat ion, and drawing. Ways of working withdrawing and motion graphics, and very fastproduction of stop-motion material .The use of indiv idual movies, to create alarger body of work, fragments of a story, that can be v iewed in a l inear and non-l inearform.I used a lot of new processes nad materials,in the space at the gallery, working closely withmuseum staff and the archive material .

RigourMy work is documented onl ine herehttp://recipesforbakingbread.co.uk/Ukraine-Pages/It inery-Documentat ion.htmlA full archive of my visi t , can be found herehttp://recipesforbakingbread.co.uk/Ukraine-Pages/Archive.htmlEnglish press material can be found onl ine herehttp://recipesforbakingbread.co.uk/Ukraine-Pages/Press.htmlThe full collect ion of v ideos and work created,is on my vimeo site herehttps://v imeo.com/saranesterukThe project blog is herehttp://recipesforbakingbread.blogspot.co.uk/

Bibl iographyMerewether, C. (Ed.) (2006). The Archive. London, Cambridge MA: Whitechapel and MIT Press.