Vira Baldyniuk

Oksana Forostyna: The title of the focus theme we are discussing implicitly rejects the possibility of perfect understanding or total transparency in any message, dismissing it as a utopian ideal. This applies not only to…

by LIA DOSTLIEVA JUNE 8, 2019   This time I get there on Friday again; every Friday in the Warsaw Uprising Museum looks like a day when the majority of visitors are organized school trips….

BY ANNA MEDVEDEVA JUNE 4th, 2019 Populist promises often become part of a more complex process of political marketing. This article explores what politics appear from the point of view of the market, how marketing…

Stanis?aw Vincenz built a literary monument to the colossal hermetic monoculture of the Eastern Carpathians. A philosopher, essayist and humanist of the Central European literary canon, Vincenz lived in a time of great geopolitical changes…

Anton Liagusha  Telling war stories, regardless of who’s narrating – victims, participants, victors, etc., – is, especially during the war, to large extent an adaptive mechanism. Talking through something, conceptualizing through language helps you understand…

ВАЛЕРІЙ ШАПОВАЛОВ 22 КВІТНЯ 2019 This essay was a finalist for the VII Art History Contest held by Stedley Art Foundation.   I first heard this strange name while reading an article about Mayakovsky in…

ВІТАЛІЯ ЩЕЛКАНОВА 5 ТРАВНЯ 2019  Igor Chekachkov is a photo artist who continues the traditions of the Kharkiv school of photography. He started out as a photo journalist in 2008, before moving to artistic photography,…

Kateryna Kyseliova  I picture every city as a body with cars running through the veins of roads and people rushing through the arteries of streets. Warsaw looks like a butterfly with its wings on both…

This essay by Polina Limina was the winner of the Stedley Art Foundation VII Art History Contest.  Imagine that you live in the small village of Vchoraishe in Zhytomyr region. The village has only about…

by Nadia Kovalchuk In the last six months Europe has been swept by a series of nostalgic projects that openly aestheticize the Soviet era. In Paris alone, in early December Kirill Serebrennikov’s moving black and…

About a year ago, at the height of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, I read the article “Instructions: How to recognize harassment and what to do next”. After reading the article, in which harassment…

Thirty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and so did the old world order. The Soviet Union only survived a couple of years. Some might remember the dream of Mikhail Gorbachev about the common “European…