Artists and cultural managers in exile shared their experience, making inputs and talks

Artists in Talk

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 …

Maryna Rusia Shukiurava (Rusya), Olga Bubich

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

Hanna Yankuta, Olga Bubich

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

Ludmila Pogodina, Vika Biran

Talks in Exile

Vika Biran talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Ludmila Pogodina, Maria Komarova

TALKS IN EXILE

Maria Komarova talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Anna Dial, Arina Kalimulina, Olga Bubich

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

Yauhenia Dougaya, Olga Bubich

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

Antonina Stebur

»We are Alive and Fragile«

ART AS RESISTANCE, WEAKNESS AS POWER

Antonina Stebur’s reflections on fragility and corporeality becoming political concepts, when approached as fundamental characteristics of human existence

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Ludmila Pogodina, Dasha Brian

Talks in Exile

Dasha Brian talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her life and work in Exile

Volha Hapeyeva

WHICH LANGUAGE ARE YOU WEARING TODAY?

On Foreign and Home Languages. Artists in Talk

Volha Hapeyeva talks about her work in exile and her essay »WHICH LANGUAGE ARE YOU WEARING TODAY?«

Alexander Bogdanov/Papa Bo, Olga Bubich

»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

Vika Biran

How to enter the German university (and why)

Artists in Talk

A talk about the difficulties and advantages of studying at a German university

How to enter the German university (and why)

Viktoryia Hrabennikava, Saltanat Shoshanova

Wedding Game Talk

Viktoryia Hrabennikava talks to Saltanat Shoshanova about her project »Wedding game«

Ludmila Pogodina, Nadya Sayapina

talks in exile

Nadya Sayapina talks to Ludmila Pogodina about her work and life in Exile

Aleksandra Kononchenko, Olga Bubich

»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

Yanina Boldyreva, Olga Bubich

Collective inaction

Siberian counter-memory art activist on »Russian guilt«, motherland, and »despite« mode

Tatiana Antonova, Valeria Khripatch, Olga Bubich

Interview about »A Place« performance

Zmicer Waynowski, Olga Bubich

»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