Бабин Яр

30/09/2024 | Na stronie od 30/09/2024

Babi Jar

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МІСЦЕ

Проекти, пов'язані з територією Бабиного Яру. Дослідження місця, де сталися трагічні події. Унікальні експозиційні об'єкти в міському просторі.

Територія Бабиного Яру - головний простір майбутнього музею. Тут відбулася історія – і саме тут про неї маємо говорити. Кожен сантиметр землі Бабиного Яру - матеріал історії, живий архів, в якому є шанс виявити пам'ять про минуле.

Сьогодні територія Бабиного Яру зовсім не схожа на місце трагедії 1941-1943 років. Рельєф змінено до невпізнаваності, цвинтарі знищені; нині тут облаштований парк, поруч збудовано житловий масив. У нинішньому Бабиному Яру минуле вже не присутнє зримо. Нитки, що пов’язують його історію та сучасність - приховані. Наші проєкти мають виявити - а часто і відновити - стосунок території до її минулого та її сьогодення.

PLACE

Projects related to the territory of Babyn Yar, exploring the place where the tragic events took place and to the exhibition of unique installations and memorial objects in the urban space.

The Babyn Yar site is the main space for the future museum. This is where the historical events took place, and where they should be discussed. Every inch of this land consists of history, is a "living archive", which gives us the chance to discover the past.

Today, the territory of Babyn Yar is completely different from the scene of the tragedy in 1941-1943. Its relief has been changed beyond recognition; cemeteries destroyed, a park and the residential area built nearby. The past is not visible in present-day Babyn Yar. The threads between its history and modernity are hidden. Our projects’ aim is to uncover and restore the connection between this place, its past, and its present.

AUDIO VISUAL INSTALLATION

Thе places of memory, where the names of the victims of the Babyn Yar tragedy can be heard together with the prayers and memorial songs.

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The centre of the ‘Mirror Field’ audio-visual installation is the symbol of the Tree of Life, which is found in most religions and mythologies of the world. The Babyn Yar tragedy shows how easily this tree can be destroyed, and its branches broken.

The structure is made of stainless steel, the podium is in the form of a mirror disk with a diameter of about 40 meters, with 10 columns of 6 meters high installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.

The installation is available around the clock. During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, the light and the sound of memory pass through the bullet holes, and rays fall from the tops of the columns into the sky.

An electroacoustic pipe organ of 24 pipes is built into the podium. An algorithm for translating the names of the victims into sound was developed especially for this pipe organ. Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has its own number. According to the gematria principle, the names of the victims have been translated into numbers, which, in turn, set the pitch of the sound. The combination of audio waves of the name numbers creates a common sound composition.

The main background is overlaid with archival recordings of pre-war Kyiv, unique Yiddish songs of the 1920s and 1930s from the collections of the National Library named after V. Vernadsky restored by the Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Choral and Memorial Christian music, Ukrainian and Roma Memorial songs, works by contemporary Ukrainian composers are performed.

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