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
Start Up Lectures 2025-26moreGiulia Damiani and Bita Bell: Porous and Eruptive: Choreographic Practices of InterruptionArtistic-research presentation, embodied writing and movement workshopmore
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
Start Up Lectures 2025-26more
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
Start Up Lectures 2025-26moreEva Garibaldi and Jeanna Kolesova: Desiring the Wetland: State Power, Resistance, and the Echoes of HistoryPresentation and conversationmore
“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
Start Up Lectures 2025-26moreRuthia Jenrbekova: Live in Your Head: How to Tell What’s Real from What’s Really Real?Lecture Performancemore