{"id":206,"date":"2025-10-06T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:18:13","slug":"pavlo-kovach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/en\/pavlo-kovach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavlo Kovach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pavlo Kovach<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI Am an Artist\u201d, 2025, video performance, 20\u20325\u2033<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavlo serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. His duties include civil-military cooperation\u2014working with the families of the fallen, the missing and those who have been taken prisoner. The video performance documents how, while serving in a military unit, Pavlo \u2014 dressed in his usual work attire, a military uniform \u2014 repeats the same phrase, \u201cI am an artist,\u201d one thousand times. With the constant, relentless repetition his voice weakens, sometimes cracks, sometimes he runs out of breath. This simple act of monotonous speaking conveys the internal tension, indeed the conflict, between the role and duties of a soldier and the identity of an artist. Pavlo utters the phrase as a tongue-twister rather than as a manifesto \u2014 as if addressing himself more than others. Through continual repetition the phrase gradually loses its original meaning as an affirmation and acquires the qualities of a symbolic act. The recorded specific \u201critual of self-identification\u201d shows that, in addition to the threat to the body, war creates circumstances in which one\u2019s sense of identity\u2014who we think we really are\u2014is also undermined and endangered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pavlo Kovach, \u2018I Am an Artist\u2019, 2025, video performance, 20\u20325\u2033<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pavlo Kovach \u201cI Am an Artist\u201d, 2025, video performance, 20\u20325\u2033 Pavlo serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. His duties include civil-military cooperation\u2014working with the families of the fallen, the missing and those who have been taken prisoner. The video performance documents how, while serving in a military unit, Pavlo \u2014 dressed in his usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labirynt.com\/voicesfromukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}