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Maria Patsyuk

stop fucking war

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Maria Patsyuk Russia stop fucking war, July 2022 Following Audrey Lorde's idea that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, in my work I question the efficacy of calls for violence and rape when addressing enemies and aggressors in any anti-war rhetoric as it's a case of unconscious use of patriarchal culture's tools in an attempt to confront it. I observe how the body responds to the ambivalence of sexual vocabulary embedded in everyday discourse, and study their mutual impact. ??? ????? (fuck war) is a well-known slogan in the Russian-speaking circles. It is considered to be pacifist, but operates as a legitimization of military violence, in which the dominant sexual role is to humiliate and appropriate the bodies of others. The more intense the usage of the sexual language in the context of violence is - in the news, in slogans and in everyday speech - the more I feel that sex as a bodily and communicative practice, as an extension of desire and a path to pleasure, is escaping me and becoming a weapon of war that cripples living bodies.

Maria Patsyuk, multidisciplinary anti-war artist, 34 y.o, from Moscow, Russia. Due to political reasons provisionally based in Europe since 2022. Masters Student at Art Live Forms in Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg 2023-2025, DAAD scholarship holder. Keywords for her artistic practice: holding complex interrelations, breaking away from ideologies and manifests, sprouting through in-betweens, fluid contract, distance and boundaries. Critically reflects on the interrelation of people, institutions, and non-humans both in physical and digital spaces. Winner of DAAD Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Germany, In Solidarity Scholarship, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria and GES-2 x CHANEL Culture Fund Scholarship, Moscow, Russia. Shortlisted in VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art x Gucci Contest in 2020. Participant of the LoosenArt exhibition, Rome, Italy; Noname Festival, Moscow; NO RETURN festival, Nevers, France; International festival of arts The Access Point, Saint-Petersburg, Russia and ON THE EDGE festival, Narva, Estonia with projects, connecting physical and digital experiences. Participant of BUDA art residency in Kortrijk, Belgium; Glocal Class Tender Absence, digital residency by Peira, Germany; Untitled Gallery residency in Tbilisi, Georgia; In Their Own Words residency for women artists at the GES–2 House of Culture in Moscow, Russia, Blackbox at Meyerhold Theatre Centre, Moscow, Russia.