Thinking with Liquids: An Interview with Ira Melkonyan InterviewThinking with Liquids: An Interview with Ira MelkonyanIra Melkonyan is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist and theater maker with a degree in microbiology and virology. Maria Rößler spoke with Melkonyan about her political artistic practice as well as how the ongoing war changed her relationship to the country she was born in, and how to approach the concept of nation states and cultural heritage from a decolonial point of view.