Our complicated history is part of our identity, and accepting and reflecting on it provides a key to understanding ourselves, our resilience and endurance, as well as to restoring our agency, our ability to determine for ourselves who we are and who we want to be, to choose our place in the world and our role in its transformations.
What is distinctive about the Ukrainian decolonial discourse, and how is this perspective changing under the influence of the full-scale war with Russia? How does the processing of trauma affect our thinking, language and cultural practices, and what new meanings, images and narratives emerge in the process? What does Ukraine look like today within the global art context, and how can we influence this?
In the RIGHTS NOW! lecture programme, Kateryna Botanova — cultural researcher, curator and writer, head of media projects at the Frontier Institute and curator of the project 25 Strategic Questions for Ukraine, member of the jury for the DOCU/WORLD competition at the 23rd Docudays UA — will speak about decolonisation as a process of rethinking the past and at the same time as a framework within which ideas about the future are formed.
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