Ihor Husiev's Film on Odesa's NORM Gallery Screened at National Art Museum

A film by artist and curator Ihor Husiev about the underground contemporary art gallery NORM, which existed in Odesa in 2008-2011, was screened at the Odesa National Art Museum on April 12.

The show was also attended by an Intent correspondent.

The organizers of the screening are confident that this documentary will change the viewer's perception of Odesa art. The film was attended by: Sergey Anufriev, Anna Aliyeva, Leonid Voitsekhov, Igor Gusev, Dmitry Dulfan, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Ute Kielter, Stas Podlipsky, Alexander Roytburd.

"Thanks to its bold and outrageous exhibition projects, NORMa Gallery quickly became a central place for the informal artistic environment of Odesa in the late 2000s. The interviews with the film's participants will open up a parallel world of the Odesa underground, absurd and shocking, but always fun," the organizers of the screening said.

The screening will be followed by a meeting and an informal conversation with the film's director Igor Gusev, during which we will talk about the peculiarities of the artistic process in Ukraine in 2000, Odesa underground art, independent exhibition spaces, shocking and censorship in culture, and more.

Also on April 12, the Odesa Regional Universal Scientific Library named after M. Hrushevsky presented Casey Michel' s book American Kleptocracy, about the largest money laundering scheme in history. In his book, Casey Michel tells us the story of a "family" that personally contributed to an extremely large corruption scheme that ruined Cleveland. In addition to Yevhenia Genova, the speakers at the presentation included Yevhenia Virlych, editor-in-chief, journalist, and deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Headquarters, and the discussion was moderated by Ukrainian journalist, writer, and civic activist Zoya Kazanzhy.

Кирило Бойко