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PERFORMANCE

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"Performance is a contact with public...

       ... it is a self-immersive presence..."

2014

2014

Salt is in the air

Photo documentation.

Asiatopia. International performance art festival. Chiang Mai, Thailand. November, 2014.

Roof, 7 kg of salt, dress, puddle.

This territory is a source of salt in the region. The air is heavy, humid and salty here. This work emphasizes the feelings which appeared due to this place, being in it.

Untitled

Photo documentation. November, 2014

International performance art festival “Asiatopia”. Bangkok,  Thailand.

Corner, gauze, hand cream, trace.

The stone in a hand

Photo documentation. October, 2014.

Spichlarz sztuki. Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Gauze, flag, stone from the pavement, tension, force, sound.

Untitled

Photo documentation. October, 2014

Prezent performance. Flader festival. Gdansk, Poland.

Transparent film, wind, sea, look, touch.

Video documentation.

A chess play

Photo documentation. October, 2014.

Foreign workforce. After school special. Kunsthalle. Bergen, Norway.

The floor in the black and white cell, hand cream, 50 m of black elastic, tension, people’s participation, game. The floor of the gallery hall became a context of a game which caused the connections, tension and interaction with the public at the end.

Untitled

Photo documentation. September, 2014

Gogolfest. Kyiv.

Gauze, hair, tree.

On the Lesia Ukrainka str.

Photo documentation. September, 2014

International performance art festival “Days of Performance Art in Lviv”.

Video documentation.

Text, round stone, sloping street, voice.

The 4 fragments from Lesya Ukrainka's poems were combined into a text which has formed a new context. Through juggling with the poem lines throughout the performance, a monologue of a modern person with a burden was created due to the ancient words.

Untitled

Photo documentation.June, 2014

Performance Arsenal. Gallery Arsenal Elektrownia. Białystok, Poland.

Wooden brick, hair, measurement, traces of scratching.

Pamiec (Memory)

Photo documentation. May, 2014

Giartino. Torun, Poland.

Court, hexagonal tiles, graphite, write/erase. 

1-hour action was based on writing which is simultaneously an erasing. Each next letter, each next sound makes the previous one disappear.

Connections

Photo documentation. March, 2014

Video documentation.

Art festival “March cats”. Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

50m of black elastic, black dress, bench, trees, square.

Believe and Remember

Photo documentation. March, 2014

The Days of Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine. Castle in Zhovkva.  Zhovkva.

Stairs, white chalk, dates of the years, being on the knees.

This action was an attempt to look at the figure of Taras Shevchenko as a simple person that lived here 200 years ago. It was a homage to human life when only time divides us from his presence. 

Balance

Photo documentation. February, 2014

Video documentation.

Temporary exhibition. Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

Wooden frame, dress, flour, 2 footprints.

 

2013

2013

Double meaning

Photo documentation. December, 2013

International performance art festival ZAZ. Haifa, Israel.

Mirror, breath, touch, trace.

The trace of breath exists as a version of the real presence. It exists and it disappears. It talks but in he silence.

In the circle

Photo documentation. October, 2013

Grassomania. Gdansk. Poland .

16 wooden ladders of 60 cm long, rope, circle, sand.

No shadow

Photo documentation. September, 2013

Lviv, Ukraine.

Sun, shadow, hair.

Visible invisible roads

Photo documentation. August, 2013

International performance art festival “Konteksty”. Sokolowsko, Poland.

16 wooden ladders of 60 cm long, rope, line, sand.

Transformation

Photo documentation. July, 2013

International performance art festival NIPAF13, Nagano, Japan.

Craft paper, fishing line, water, long dress, black tissue, basin.

The dress became a material of connection, it was the medium to put the water from the basin into the paper, to measure how much water around my feet could contain the paper over my head.

Rice field

Photo documentation. June, 2013

International performance art festival NIPAF13. Osaka, Japan.

Rice, wall, bilateral scotch, face, print.

The idea appeared during the bus trip from Tokyo to Osaka. In the morning, the clear rectangles of the sky suddenly appeared in the green fields. These were rice fields full of water. It was the trace that lives in the memory, a print of that territory.

Entry | Exit

Photo documentation. June, 2013

International performance art festival NIPAF13. Tokyo, Japan.

A transparent glass wall, dress, flour, footprints, space of 2 ㎡. 

The project “Entry|Exit" started in Tokyo during the NIPAF’13 Festival. There is a person, her unity and “collaboration” with space due to the movement, it is about borders and their erasure, disappearance.

Burden

Photo documentation. June, 2013

UAP, Poznan, Poland.

10 m of white elastic, 10 kg of sugar, transparent plastic bags with water, white wall, hanging, balance.

Around

Photo documentation. May, 2013

International performance art festival “Interactions”. Piotrkow Trybunalski. Poland. Wall, 50 m of white elastic, white dress, foundation, perimeter.

This artwork is about limits. A person creates limits and restrictions even while getting rid of them. A person leaves traces. Physically or mentally we find ourselves in the “boxing ring”. The public was involved in the action and became a part of this performance.

Crossroads

Photo documentation. May, 2013

360'. Efremova gallery. Lviv.

Wall, corner, cross, foundation, white dress.

Visible invible roads

Photo documentation. April, 2013

Oronsko, Poland.

16 wooden ladders of 60 cm long, circle, rope.

Untitled

Photo documentation. April, 2013

Gallery weekend. Poznan, Poland.

Sugar, oil, white dress.

Trace

Photo documentation. March, 2013

Gallery Raczej. Poznan. Poland.

White walls, foundation, movement.

The memory about the human presence exists in his absence too. Sometimes it is only in the memory, sometimes it is outside. The interaction of the skin with a wall became a visible trace on both surfaces. The sign on the wall became an independent object that outlines the space of the gallery.

Ploughed field

Photo documentation. March, 2013

Skoki. Poland.

Snow, metal rods, rope, trees.

There are the lines in the snow drawn with the metal rods. The action was a research of the perception of the ground and field in a changed context.

2012

2012

Dance sound

Photo documentation. October, 2012

Akcja 27. Lublin, Poland.

Table, white napkin, wine glasses, a bottle of wine, elastic.

Black line

Photo documentation. September, 2012

Video documentation.

International performance art festival “Days of performance art in Lviv”. Lviv, Ukraine.

50m of black elastic, black dress, bench, trees.

Each movement makes a part of a dance. Starting from a bench, a long black line began to appear in the space of the avenue. It involved people standing by, meanwhile, it divided them into small groups. The dress was getting longer and longer, the movement became freer.

I'm waiting for your letter

Photo documentation. August, 2012

Sokolowsko, Poland.

50 envelopes, ballpoint pen, seeds. 

What happens if you leave 50 closed envelopes with the sender’s address on a bench? Will this letter get a response? Will somebody reply?

© Yaryna Shumska 2025

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