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Echoes of Solo Resistance and Autonomous Protest

Echoes of Solo Resistance and Autonomous Protest is an artistic research project exploring individual acts of protest in public space through choreographic analysis. Building on earlier research initiated during the … more

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Karaganda, Karaganda

Kandis Friesen’s project Karaganda, Karaganda is anchored in the slow dissolution of the remnants of Karlag, a former Soviet gulag in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Working through site-based research and expanded modes … more

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In Zombie Fire

In Zombie Fire is a speculative documentary film that explores European peatlands as ecological, political, and cultural archives of ongoing violent transformation. Focusing on the Baltic countries, Finland, Germany, and … more

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"Fog is the bison of history"

Fog is the bison of history focuses on Białowieża forest as a site of sedimented histories of struggle, oppression, interimperiality and a contested borderland. Historically part of several empires and … more

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