Pasha Radetzki: Union Square installation and performances.
6.20.24. Union Square, Manhattan. Summer 2024. “Peace in All Languages: Mir”
Pasha Radetzki in collaboration with Kevin Nathaniel, Saco Myoji, celebrated mbira/kalimba masters and Salieu Suso, kora maestro and Famoro Dioubate, master of the balafon.
Pasha Radetzki’s Love-ego=LOV is now installed in Union Square Park's center lawn through November 5th.
The work is activated by on-site performances on:
June 20th - ‘Peace in All Languages: Mir.’ 6pm-sunset (install-action 6.30-7pm); in collaboration with Kevin Nathaniel, Saco Myoji, celebrated mbira/kalimba masters and Salieu Suso, kora maestro.
June 21st - ’SunCultures Naturality.’ 6pm-sunset; in collaboration with ‘Make Music New York’ and Kevin Nathaniel leading mbira/kalimba Unity ensemble
June 27th - Huewomanity Founding Mothers: G-LOV All. Gender fest. 6pm-sunset
Pasha Radetzki: Performance at Tashmoo Springs Water Works, Peat and Repeat exhibition, a microbiology of circumstance: Now What? in 2021.
Love-ego=LOV
is an interactive public art site & sculpture garden created by Pasha Radetzki site-specifically for Union Square Park’s center lawn.
It is composed of large-scale outdoor LOV Sculpture, experimental garden initiative and performance series titled Unity on Union Square.
Union Square Park, Manhattan, New York; May 5th - November 5th.
The work articulates the notions of egoless love, unity, freedom and interdependence of human lives amidst contemporary volatile socio-ecological conditions. Part of an on-going public art initiative, it experiments with conceiving of renewed modes for community living, governing and human interrelations.
Pasha Radetzki
Radetzki’s installation has already received many press mentions and features including top three public art installations of the summer from Time Out magazine.
TIME OUT: BEST OUTDOOR SCULPTURE
Pasha Radetzki is a visual artist working with public art sculpture, multidisciplinary performance, painting and drawing. His artworks received the Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy in Los Angeles in 2022, CodaWorx Award in 2014 and the ArtsLink Award in New York in 2002. In 2023, his public artwork was awarded the Creative Engagement grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and in 2024, Love-ego=LOV art initiative received fiscal sponsorship from New York Foundation for the Arts.
Radetzki has had solo exhibitions in New York, U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Belarus and China. His works were featured at dOCUMENTA 13 (Hauptbahnhof, Kassel, Germany), Manifesta 11 (Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland), 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 4th Moscow Photo Biennial (Central Exhibition Hall Manezh); Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, Germany), Beijing 798 Biennial (T Art Center, China) and 8th Cordoba Photo Biennial (Spain).
UPCOMING: Essays and Interviews
An essay on the little known but exceptional work of Jack Greene — we hope this will familiarize people with his work.
Part II of Interview with Elke Luyten.
Interview with Anna Sang Park
Interview with Coder/Herbologist/Film Ace, Artist and Poet, Meredith Finkelstein
Essay on the work of Francine Hunter McGivern by Carter Ratcliffe
Interview with Daniel Rothbart, whose exhibition at Galerie Depardieu opens in September
PEAT and REPEAT BOOK SERIES:
Peat and Repeat is excited to announce that we are creating an artist book series that will include programming and workshop endeavors. We are launching a fundraising initiative for this series. More on this soon.
We really do rely on tax-deductible donations to keep going! The more we can fundraise the more projects in the community we can produce and our intention is to expand our community outreach.