Lina Kazakova: Inconsolable InterviewLina Kazakova: InconsolableBelarusian Poet Lina Kazakova on guilt, humanism and on how to speak about what you’re left with.
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Patches, Possession, and the Peaceful Atom EssayPatches, Possession, and the Peaceful AtomAlex Fisher addresses the issue of possession and the ambivalence that arises from the availability of objects and symbols. Who owns the signs and works that have tried to shape, change, or reform Ukraine over the course of time?
Smoke Signals EssaySmoke SignalsAlex Fisher asks which narratives and which explanations do justice to the complexity and multi-layered nature of Ukrainian reality.
What Fire Brings EssayWhat Fire BringsBeginning with this first part, the multi-part essay by writer and curator Alex Fisher considers fire as a motif and metaphor for (un)making meaning and memory, situating artworks, exhibitions, and ephemera in thick correspondence with societal tendencies, tragedies, and triumphs.