Film screening, artist talk, and UTA art professors at the Dallas Art Book Fair
Lilia Kudelia moderates artist talk with Stanislava Pinchuk at the Dallas Art Book Fair, March 16, 2025. Courtesy of Dallas Contemporary and A Sea of Love
At the Dallas Art Book Fair, UTA Department of Art and Art History sponsored the presentation of the book The Theatre of War that features interview between our Visual Resources Curator Lilia Kudelia with the artist Stanislava Pinchuk. The three-channel video installation that recites the opening lines of Homer’s Iliad was also on view at Dallas Contemporary during the book fair. The film moves across history, language, and geography as it connects past, recent, and ongoing armed conflicts: the Trojan War, the Bosnian War, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In an artist talk, moderated by Lilia Kudelia at the Dallas Art Book Fair on March 15, 2025, Stanislava Pinchuk spoke about the visual translation of her film The Theatre of War into the printed book format, published by Perimeter Editions in Melbourne, Australia. They also discussed the production of the film and how the footage from the military trainings connects to Stanislava’s work commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. Based in Sarajevo, Stanislava Pinchuk is an artist who works with data-mapping and the changing topographies of war and conflict zones. Spanning drawing, architecture, installation, tattooing, film and sculpture, her work surveys how landscape holds memory and testifies about the political events.
Lilia Kudelia’s practice as a curator and art historian involves the study of cultural heritage, preservation and restitution, and the conventions of memory. At UTA, she teaches special topics seminar Contemporary Art and the Archive that delves into the synergies between artistic practices and archival research. After Dallas Art Book Fair, UTA students had an opportunity to meet Stanislava Pinchuk as a guest speaker in Kudelia’s class where the artist talked about her public art project Europe Without Monuments inspired by the archives of Bosnian architect Bogdan Bogdanović and her recent work with the archives of Albania’s former dictator Enver Hoxha at Villa 31 artist residency in Tirana.
Recording of the Artist Talk
Among vendors at the Dallas Art Book Fair, visitors could also find incredible graphic novels and design creations by the UTA art department faculty Keshin Ding who teaches classes in drawing here and Mason LaHue who offers various courses in digital media, cinematic animation, and cinema production.
Keshin’s story Sour Plums is an autobiographical comic inspired by her high school days in her hometown Dengzhou in China. It got published in 2024 as a result of her comic community friends’ Utot Komiks Challenge where artists have to create “a 6-page comic within two weeks and a no-judgement zone.” Cover and lettering for the book was designed by Mason LaHue who, among other zines at their stand at Dallas Art Book FAir, presented My Little Trouble in Big China, a zestful illustrated story about his trip abroad and meetings with in-laws during summer 2024.
Installation of Stanislava Pinchuk’s The Theatre of War at Dallas Contemporary, March 2025, organized with support from the UTA Department of Art and Art History and Make Art with Purpose. Photo courtesy of Dallas Contemporary and A Sea of Love
Keshin Ding and Mason LaHue at their stand at the Dallas Art Book Fair at Dallas Contemporary. Photo by Lilia Kudelia
Keshin Ding. Page from Sour Plums, 2024. Courtesy of the artist
Drawing of the artist talk with Stanislava Pinchuk by Mason LaHue
