Arts, Crafts, Affects

On 25-26 November 2022 we organised a public seminar “Arts, Crafts, Affects: Documenting HerStories and Worldbuilding” with Ulrike Gerhardt in the Estonian Academy of Arts to consider. It featured Mare Tralla, Ulrike Mayer, Rufina Bazlova and Sofia Tocar (Framed in Belarus) as presenters and Katrin Kivimaa as discussant. The seminar was followed by a guided… Continue reading Arts, Crafts, Affects

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Article at MoMA Post

In this article written with Ieva Astahovska for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Post platform we review the ongoing research and exchange project “Communicating Difficult Pasts” (2019-22), its different activities, its creative and curatorial methods used. In the project we approach Baltic history as global and closely entangled with its adjacent regions. We propose… Continue reading Article at MoMA Post

Exhibition “Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds” Riga

The exhibition “Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds” includes works by Aslan Ġoisum, Jaana Kokko, Quinsy Gario, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, Paulina Pukytė, Ülo Pikkov, Vika Eksta, Zuzanna Hertzberg. The stories of this exhibition bring together the difficult and often-silenced aspects of pasts including violent conflicts, painful losses and their long-term legacies. The difficult pasts addressed here… Continue reading Exhibition “Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds” Riga

Symposium “Prisms of Silence” Tallinn

Symposium “Prisms of Silence” (21-22.02.2020) organized at Estonian Academy of Arts analysed how could we approach significant silences. Its focus is on the Second World war and the Soviet period silences, which we sought to tackle in order to understand contemporary social change. The symposium was organized by Margaret Tali and Ieva Astahovska. It constituted… Continue reading Symposium “Prisms of Silence” Tallinn

Symposium “Peripheral Narratives, Minority Identities” Groningen

On 24 January I presented my ongoing research in Groningen. I was been invited to contribute to the Symposium “Peripheral Narratives, Minority Identities” that took place as a part of the Winterschool “Stories to Live By: Narratives and Identity” program at the University of Groningen.

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Doing research in Lithuania

From 7-19 January I will be in Lithuania, as a guest at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University doing research, meeting artists, curators and documentary filmmakers. I will return later in spring to give a talk about my work.

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