Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist, recites Taras Shevchenko’s poem “Khiba Samomy Napysat’” in Ukrainian (video project “Our Shevchenko/Nash Shevchenko”)

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist,  recites Taras Shevchenko’s poem “Khiba Samomy Napysat’” in Ukrainian as a part of independent video project “Nash Shevchenko” ("Our Shevchenko") instituted by Serhiy Proskurnia.

Video installation "Our Shevchenko" was prepared by director Serhii Proskurnia. Video clips of school and university students, poets, teachers, artists, pharmacists, sportsmen, firefighters, hairdressers, journalists reciting the great Kobzar’s poems will be screened on an installed screen. There will be 365 videos in total!”

“This number coincides with the number of days in a year, and we have to air 30 more videos,” explains Serhii PROSKURNIA. “We filmed everyone who was interested in the project, and also some stars I invited. The shooting took place all over Ukraine, I could not film in Donetsk oblast only, because people that were going to participate did not know Shevchenko’s poems by heart, and it was a mandatory condition. Sometimes readers peeked at the poems, but nevertheless, people enjoy those lines, they bathe in them. For the most part, those are excerpts from Shevchenko’s works these people are particularly fond of.”

(News archive: 20 .02. 2014)

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