Europe
06.04.2017

Ukrainian Maidan on your smartphone

Inspired by a new idea - creating an App (for smartphones) with cultural revitalization of events on Ukrainian Maidan 2013/2014 - CRISP held a Kick-Off-Meeting for the new project “Hidden Memories”.

In collaboration with Ukrainian NGO Iskra and experimental media laboratory xm:lab we will develop an app for smartphone-users which makes the events before and during the Maidan revolution in Kyiv 2013/2014, accessible in a new audio drama. Through the app, third parties get the opportunity to better understand the events that took place. In the course of the project, different perspectives will be analyzed, artistically prepared and converted into the app.The audio drama will include about 10 individual, partly contrasting stories, and the events that happened at the Maidan.

The project is a collaboration of artists (authors and musicians) and civil society groups from different political parties and different regions of the country, who jointly create an audible interpretation of a symbolically heavily loaded place with complex and largely invisible past.

The main target group of the audio drama are Ukrainian educational institutions, civil society organizations and private individuals. As a spin-off, the app will also be available for tourists and this way ensure financial support for the local evaluation workshops. The app will be available in Russian, Ukrainian, German and English languages.

For more information about the project please follow the link: http://work.crisp-berlin.org/activities/2017/hidden-memories/