Lecture-performance by Olia Sosnovskaya
Admission starts at $5
July 5, 2022, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, July 5 at 7pm for the lecture-performance burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke (2017, 25 minutes) by Olia Sosnovskaya. The lecture-performance will be followed by a conversation between Sosnovskaya and curator and writer Aleksei Borisionok, contextualizing Sosnovskaya’s work in relation to the current social uprising in Belarus (since 2020) and the ongoing Russian military invasion of Ukraine.
The lecture-performance is part of the artist’s ongoing research on the political dimensions of celebration and collective movements. It addresses the histories of (post)socialist festivals, rave culture, and recent protest events, intertwining affect and ideology, language and its embodiment. Superimposing various texts, historical narratives, and media representations, it studies the revolutionary event and its co-optation by capitalist and state apparatuses.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.