All of Us Are Living in the World of Colonized Languages
A Belarusian writer Golya z Opolya talks about her debut book, the importance of knowing one’s kin and language as a way to resist colonization.
Journalist,
Photographer,
Translator,
Lecturer,
Curator
Olga Bubich
Olga Bubich is a Belarusian journalist, photographer, lecturer and curator.
She is the author of three books with the latest one decidated to the topic of memory and memory censorship. Her articles and essays were published in Stern, Eurozine, Versopolis, Blaetter, Die Presse, the IWPR and other European media. She is currently an ICORN fellow, based in Berlin as a writer in exile.
Works
»My Doors Have No Locks«
Forest Faces
»Even the Sun Is Imperfect and Vulnerable, just like us«
Anastasia Rydlevskaya—on three languages of her lyrics, freedom of expression behind pagan masks, and subtle dialogues with strangers
Searching for »Hope to Hope«
Sveta Ben–one of the most famous Belarusian singers and actresses, now in exile,–speaks about the power and fragility of German interwar cabaret,
music able to predict the future, and Berlin where she will always feel as a guest
»Literary Oasis« in a Cornfield
From Hong Kong with books
Moving countries is a painful process that can involve not only people and their families but entire businesses put at risk by political stances their owneres take. One of such businesses is »Bleak House Books« shop that had to leave Hong …
Selective Empathy, Russian Colonial Lense and »Opinions« that Start Mattering More than Facts
Ukrainian photographer Masha Pryven speaks up on the problematic issues around the EU’s current perception of the full-scale invasion and the role of artists and art
Who do wir really care of?
Care as an art practice and a way to collaboration with other-than-humans
»What We call Belarusian Music is Breaking into Pieces«
Aliaksandr Charnukha about resilience and creativity, challenges and successes of Belarusian music four years after the start of the dark days
»I Wanted to Hear the Voice Telling me that All Was Temporary«
»exile is a library in Tehran that does not fit in a backpack«
Iranian poetess Atefe Asadi–on the freedom and power native language gives you, translation losses and memory that at times could be very cruel
From »I« to »We«: Trauma, Empathy, Memory
Looking for a path toward healing through sharing traumatic experiences and collective memory
»To Move On, We Need to Take Time to Grieve and Restore Justice«
About loops in time, and history that walks in circles
From Illegal Constitutions to Silent Care of Smaller Lives
Using ecopoetry and self-empowering language Hanna Yankuta builds her »Constitution of Everything«–an unwritten document offering hope for a better, fairer and more equal world, where every living organism matters
Subline
»It Breaks My Heart When I See People Refusing to Talk to Each Other«
CARING THROUGH GESTURES–BIG AND SMALL
Belarusian photographer and visual artist Aleksandra Kononchenko on the challenges of shooting dance performances, meaningful collaborations, and cross-cultural trauma healed through dialogue
Planting a Garden of Inclusive and Hybrid Culture
Sam Chak Lui Chan, a star of Cantonese opera, speaks about the reasons of her emigration and new life in Britain with both the story behind her exile from Hong Kong and new challenges she is facing abroad resonating with the stories of artists in exi …
»Forgetting the Dictator is a Form of Therapy«
BELARUSIAN MUSIC IN EXILE/WORLDWIDE
Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide
»In Belarusian culture in exile, our bullets are not symbols–but meanings!«
Probably the most famous DJ from Belarus–on the energy of exile, building senses through the universal language of music, and hungry youth culture worth of sounding worldwide
The Art of (not) Forgetting
for four voices and video
A music Performance based on traumatic and resourceful memories of women and LGBTQ+ Belarusians collected into the photobook »The Art of (Not) Forgetting«
Anything Multiplied by Zero Gets Destroyed
Two researchers in exile launch an anti-war exhibition offering a space for empathy, pain, solidarity and questions many of which remain unanswered
It is in silence where the most evil things are done
Belarusian civic journalist and photographer Yauhenia Dougaya talks about women political prisoners enduring inhumane conditions during their incarceration
Shuma on the Choir Cures
singing that heals
Belarusian vocal therapist shares her experience of group singing in the choir of women émigrés as a way to show care, cherish the moment of togetherness and give each other support
Interview about »A Place« performance–Rethinking the body in exile
»Every Artist is a Nomad«
Valeria Khripatch & Tatiana Antonova–about »A Place« performace, laboratory of interactions and touch that matters
Collective inaction
Siberian counter-memory art activist on »Russian guilt«, motherland, and »despite« mode
on »memory plants«
Interview with the writer hanna yankuta
On »memory plants«, books that help define the place we belong, and hope able to give strength to resist
My Great-granddad Saw the Statue of Liberty,
or family memory that gain the voice century later
or family memory that gains the voice century later
when monuments can not speak
How memorial sites dedicated to the tramatic past can prevent us
from making the same mistakes today
