Who lives here? Who do we actually live with? Do we know each other? Where is home? Although we live in crowded cities, the last and least thing we do is meet each other. We ask questions about identity, belonging and living together. We will collect feelings, views, voices, visions.
Taciana Niadbaj, President of PEN Belarus, and Iryna Kozikava, Managing Director of PEN Belarus and sister of the imprisoned lawyer and writer Maksim Znak, discuss the catastrophic situation of political prisoners in Belarus, the current challenges in the Belarusian cultural landscape and the literature created in prison. Dmitrij Strotsev and Andreas Weihe accompany the discussion with readings of contemporaty Belarusian poems
NixNoies – or »nothing new« – is the solo project of Georgian musician and artist Nino Tsimakuridze, who operates between synth pop, lo-fi, and independent music.
What is love, anger, compassion? What are you afraid of? We ask questions about identity, belonging and living together. You will meet a clown, who has lost her language in the face of the alienation of the world, and teach her a word that means something to you.
The participatory performance »Greenhouse« constructs a fragile safe space with us in times of catastrophic events and questions collective decision-making possibilities.
The project emerged as a reaction to the terrible situation in Kharkiv, which is located just 50 km from the Russian border and has been under daily attact since the beginning of the war. nze entfernt liegt und täglich unter Beschuss steht. The authors reflect on the ambivalence of "safety" and on how the sense of safety mutates depending on why and how long you stay in Kharkiv.
„Contemporary History of Ukraine #18“ (CHU) is an installation by the Ukraininan film maker Oksana Kazmina. Starting with a history of Kyiv's underground scene, the project developed into an open collection of material that tells of crisis-ridden life in contemporary Ukraine.
