Mental Ecologies of War​: online launch with Olexii Kuchanskyi, Elena Vogman, and Oksana Kazmina
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Mental Ecologies of War​: online launch with Olexii Kuchanskyi, Elena Vogman, and Oksana Kazmina

Mental Ecologies of War​: online launch with Olexii Kuchanskyi, Elena Vogman, and Oksana Kazmina
Livestream
Date
February 15, 2023, 1pm ET

In this online launch, curators Olexii Kuchanskyi and Elena Vogman will discuss Mental Ecologies of War, their new program on e-flux Film. The event will also launch the performative walk Contemporary History of Ukraine by artist Oksana Kazmina.

The event will be livestreamed on Wednesday, February 15 at 1pm ET, with audience chat enabled. No registration is necessary.

Part one of Mental Ecologies of War, titled Infrastructures, Geographies, and Elemental Relations, streams online on e-flux Film for one month from February 15–March 15, 2023. Part two, Bodies, Subjectivities, and Milieus, takes place in-person at e-flux Screening Room on March 18, 2023. See the full program here.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Category
War & Conflict, Image, Nature & Ecology
Subject
Ukraine, Mental Health

Olexii Kuchanskyi is a researcher and independent film programmer.

Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. A Principal Investigator of the research project “Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe” at Bauhaus University Weimar and Visiting Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, she is the author of Sinnliches Denken: Eisensteins exzentrische Methode (Sensuous thinking: Eisenstein’s eccentric Method, 2018) and Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project (2019).

Oksana Kazmina is a documentary filmmaker, media artist, and performer based in Ukraine and the US. Her interests lie in the relations between the body and digital moving images, critical queer practice, and situated geographies. In 2016–2017 Kazmina was assistant professor of film studies at Wesleyan, CT. Today she teaches video art at the college of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, NY. Together with Vasyl Tkachenko she initiated the music project Serviz Propav. Kazmina is also a member of Freefilmers, a cinemovement and NGO that promotes the decentralization of cultural processes and independent filmmaking, especially in Eastern Ukraine. Their latest projects focus on memories and archives beyond official historical narratives, and on gender violence in patriarchal capitalist society. Nowadays Freefilmers are engaged in building an activist and volunteer network of solidarity and support for Ukrainians who suffer from and fight against Russian imperialist aggression.

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