Bullets & Lists
digital collage, digital print on acrylic glass, 29.7 x 42 cm; LED light panels
2025
The work addresses political movement and its exhaustion, and relations between language, movement and affect, spectacularity and opacity of political action and knowledge, embodied experience and document. Operating as movement scores — always incomplete and unstable, as movement itself — it embraces fragility and contingency of political movement, stressing what stays beyond the archive, remains in the body and is not meant to be articulated, and acknowledges both the untranslatability (of the political event, movement and affect) and possibilities to be activated and shared.
Conflating protest banners, flags and effects of PowerPoint interface, they address knowledge production, its embedded power relations, as well as limits, failures and affects of language and theory. The collages superimpose documentation of 2020 anti-governmental protests in Belarus and 2022 resistance to Russia’s invasion in Ukraine on Belarusian territories: video stills from CCTV cameras and mobile phones, maps of railroad sabotage against Russian troops and routes for protest marches. These visual materials are overlapped with various texts: a fictional lecture layout quoting actual books’ chapters on protest, rave and archive; a fictional bibliography; fragments of protest march score, maps of the police crackdowns, theory and personal accounts.
Photo credit: Olia Sosnovskaya; Caitlin Berrigan
