RESEARCH

2018 – current 'Forms of politicization of dance and movement practices in the post-socialist contexts', PhD in Practice research project, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria)

2019 'Curatorial courses: School for researchers and organizers', tutor of the course, with Aleksei Borisionok, 'Typography' centre for contemporary art (Krasnodar, Russia)

2018/2019 "STATUS: a role of artists in the social transformations". A group research project with Konstepidemin (Gothenburg, Sweden) and КХ Gallery (Brest, Belarus)

2017/2018 Research project in the framework of Centre for Experimental Museology (Moscow): " 'The Pavilion of the History of Human Suffering' by Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo (Minsk, 1930)" with Problem Collective (Aleksei Borisionok, Alesia Zhitkevich, Uladzimir Hramovich)

 

WORKSHOPS

2024 'Archive of Gestures: Becoming In/visible' a workshop with Elske Rosenfeld & Olia Sosnovskaya within Archival Sites of Speculation: Storying the Silence exhibition, VBKÖ (Vienna)

2023 'Reading is a Gesture' workshop within the program “Collective Art Practices: Reimagining the Future”, Bult Club (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

2023 'Exhaustion is a practice' workshop at the 'To Get Things Done: Energy Politics and Aesthetics' Josefov Summer School 2023 (Jaroměř, Czech Republic)

2023 'Reading is a gesture', workshop at TQW Winter School, Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna)

 

PUBLICATIONS

2024 'Unrest, Exhaustion, Care'. A conversation with Marta Romankiv, Olia Sosnovskaya and maja Vusilović. Moderated by Aleksei Borisionok. / Sowing Unrest. Biennale Matter of Art 2024 Reader; edited by Aleksei Borisionok and Katalin Erdödi, Tranzit.cz, Prague and Spector Books, Leipzig

2023 "The Poetics and Politics of Interruption in the 2020-21 Belarus Uprising" / Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice Issue 44.2 (2023) Special Issue: Formations of Feminist Strike

2023 'Apparently, exile is our home', conversation between Olia Sosnovskaya and G. / Translocal Dialogues on Home, Migration and Solidarity / Typography

2023 'Geographies of Solidarity: Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective' transcript of the online discussion, with Tatsiana Shchurko, Olia Sosnovskaya, Georgy Mamedov, Sujatha Subramanian, Jennifer Suchland / Feminist translocalities.

2022 'The Futures of the East' (with Aleksei Borisionok) / Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier (A Reader), edited by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius and Mousse Publishing, Milano

2022 'History never repeats itself' interview with Ana Vujanović / NERO Editions / pARTisankA №35 'Your past — our future?

2021 'The Walk. On gestures, movements, and rhythms of the current resistance in Belarus' / Danceolitics, edited by Kasia Wolinska, Uferstudios GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

2021 'Der “ehemalige Westen” und der “neue Osten”: Zur Zeichensprache des Neuen Kalten Krieges' (with Aleksei Borisionok) / Berliner Gazette (De) + 'Black Box East: Towards a Deconstruction of the “Former West” and “New East”' (with Aleksei Borisionok) / Mediapart (En)

2021 'Shouldn’t language go on strike too?' / TQW Magazin

2020 'History never repeats itself' interview with Ana Vujanović / pARTisankA №35 'Your past — our future?'

2020 'Future Perfect Continuous' / Ding magazine #3 'About the future in times of crises'

2020 'Peaceful Resistance and the Power of Poetic Dissent' / Valentinas Klimašauskas talks to Lena Prents, Olia Sosnovskaya and Antonina Stebur / Blok MAgazine

2020 'Pencil Inscription: on the Representation of Violence in the International Red Aid Pavilion by Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo', as Problem Collective / Center for Experimental Museology, V–A–C Press, Moscow, Russia.

2020 'Vibration' / Contribution to Vital Vocabulary by Eliana Otta and... / Ecoversities

2019 'Incredibly relaxing meditation music', Score for a performance lecture (fragment) / Artistic practice and social change. Observations from from Belarus and Sweden. Konstepidemin Publishing House, Gothenburg, Sweden

2019 'burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke,' Score for a performance lecture / Anrikningsverket Journal №1: Convulsion

2019 '(non)work: Collective Writings' (discussion with Nils Claesson, Nicolay Spesivtsev, Dzina Zhuk) / 'Status' platform

2018 'burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke - Score for a performance lecture' / Paletten №314

2018 'FHU's ABC' / What's There to Learn: a Workbook of the Free Home University. PS Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2018 ’The ‘Belarusian Vase’ Gymnastic Performance: Embodying the Ideological Imagination of the State’ / “Arti dello Spettacolo / Performing Arts” No4: Body (R)evolution. Dance between the end of the nineteenth century and the contemporary era.

2018 'Physical Culture in Art' (a collective discussion) / aroundart

2017 'burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke' / [Translit] №20: Music of revolution

2017 'Former West, New East' (with Aleksei Borisionok)  / Moscow Art Magazine №101: Why do we need artists today?

2017 'Commentary: Rote - Beete - Salat' In: documenta reader: presentation of a cargo-detective collection / Prostory

2016 'Nobody in This City Will Play This Music. From the History of Minsk Electronic Scene 1990 – 2000-ies'  / pARTisan №31: Rock 

2015 'The Space of the Independence Day' / City Tactics Magazine №3: The Space of the Festival

2015 ''Material’s exhaustion': Biopolitical Dimension of the Festival' (with Aleksei Borisionok) /pARTisan №28: Generation Zero?   

2015 'Art, Which Investigates: a Project By Andrei Liankevich ‘Goodbye, Motherland!’' (with Aleksei Borisionok)  / KALEKTAR

2013 'Peculiarities of choreography in European cinema of 2000’s: representation of the body and place in the structure of narrative' / 'Europe 2012' Conference anthology

2012 'Flora and fauna of dOCUMENTA' (with Aleksei Borisionok) /Artaktivist 

2013 "BY NOW" Contemporary photography from Belarus, edited by Mattias Harder. KEHRER Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, DE

 

PRESENTATIONS

2023 Scoring political movement and its exhaustion, The 14th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 'Too early, too late', Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)

2023 'Post-socialist & postcolonial translations', lecture/seminar for Suspended Matter research group [online]

2023 'Former West and New East: Away, Beyond and Sideways' joint discussion with Aleksei Borisionok, House of Anetta (London, UK)

2022 'Solidarity and Labour Unrest in Times of War'. Panel discussion with Volodymyr Artiukh, Ewa Majewska and Olga Shparaga,  moderated by Aleksei Borisionok & Olia Sosnovskaya (Problem Collective), Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz (Vienna)

2022 Bodies Perform Resistance symposium, Yale University, New Haven (USA)

2022  'The Walk (On Gestures, Movements and Rhythms of the Current Resistance in Belarus)', The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany)

2022 'I learned that the earth, like water, has several states' // Antiwаrcoalition art, panel discussion with Kateryna Lysovenko, Polina Baitsym, Olia Sosnovskaya, Ruth Jenrbekova, moderator Tatiana Kochubinska, Q21 / Freiraum Ukraine (Vienna)

2022 'The Poetics and Politics of Interruption', Politics and Poetics of Strike in the Postsocialist and Postcolonial Encounter workshop, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

2022 'Solidarity is knowledge. Visibility and voice of Ukrainian art in resistance' panel discussion with Polina Baitsym, Aleksei Borisionok, Olia Sosnovskaya, Oleksiy Radynski, moderated by Dariia Kuzmych. Deutscher Künstlerbund (Berlin)

2022 'When Words Stick in the Throat. Activist and Artistic Reactions of the Art Community to the War and Political Protests' panel discussion with Nikita Kadan, Olia Sosnovskaya, Maxim Tyminko, moderator Lena Prents. Galeria Arsenał (Białystok)

2022 '(Counter)archiving a Circulating Image' panel discussion with Oraib Toukan & Olia Sosnovskaya, moderated by Vanessa Gravenor. alpha nova & galerie futura (Germany, Berlin) 

2022 'Geographies of Solidarity: Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective' online discussion with Tatsiana Shchurko, Olia Sosnovskaya, Georgy Mamedov and Sujatha Subramanian, moderated by Jennifer Suchland. The Ohio State University (Columbus, USA)

2021 'Back to Belarus: The State of Art & Protest Today' online discussion with Antonina Stebur, Olia Sosnovskaya, Dzina Zhuk and Nicolay Spesivtsev, moderated by Olga Kopenkina. Beinecke Library, Yale University (USA)

2021 'Belarus, Work Nomore', lecture. Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany)

2019 'Internationalism After the End of Globalisation' summit participation. In the framework of 'Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries' exhibition. Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)

2019 'Lazy simulator' collective exercises (with (non)-work group), The non existent Center (Ställbergs Gruva, Sweden)

2019 'Fatigue and pharmachoreography', performative seminar (with WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group), Research Week, Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm, Sweden)

2018 'Choir exercises', a collective vocal practice (in collaboration with Aleksei Borisionok), CAMP AS ONE (Vityazevo, Russia)

2018 'burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke', lecture-performance, conference 'Arts in The State - The State in Arts', National Gallery of Art (Vilnius, Lithuania)

2016 'The politics of fun: significance of ‘the party’ for queer?', panel discussion at 'Dotyk Queer Festival' (Minsk, Belarus)

2015 'Tell Me What you Want, What You Really Really Want? On Dance and Violence', dance workshop, Roehampton University (London, UK)

2014 '‘Belarusian Vase’ gymnastic performance at the Independence Day parade in Minsk: the spectacle of power and reproduction of the Soviet discourse', presentation, conference 'Art, Society and Politics in (Post)Socialism' (Timisoara, Romania)