Dedicated to the Youth of the World III

Dedicated to the Youth of the World III is a reenactment of the artists’ film with the same title produced in 2019, which documented the rave Сxema in Kyiv. While Kyiv’s youth appeared in that latter film to reclaim their post-revolutionary city in an intimate yet massive nighttime ritual – a kind of unrestricted freedom many looked forward to – the new version was created against a completely different backdrop. The artists decided to reenact the party in September 2023 in the face of constant threat, focusing on community members who have replaced the previous rave participants, after a prolonged pandemic and the full-scale invasion by Russian occupation forces.

Dedicated to the Youth of the World III aims to capture the novel reality that has since emerged, a “new day” that nobody would have imagined in their wildest dreams four years ago.