Anastasiia Platonova

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Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine

In March 2022, together with Anastasiia Platonova, Sofia Dyak and Mayhill C. Fowler, I started the “Unwinding Empire” project, focusing on the cultural, social, and historical context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Over the course of three months, 14 articles by renowned Ukrainian and international authors were published in outlets in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, etc. 

Thus, an extensive conversation about Ukraine and its neighbors started. We published articles about inequalities and injustices in the creative sector, cultural policies, and knowledge production that have existed for many years.

In the project’s further development, the editorial team would like to widen the conversation on Eastern Europe to include authors from Poland, as well as the Baltic and Balkan countries. With subsequent articles, we would like to go deeper into rethinking Eastern Europe and its relationship with Western Europe after World War Two and after the current war in Ukraine.

 

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    The Lviv project Jam Factory can confidently be called one of the longest-running artistic construction projects in Ukraine. The transformation of the space of the former jam factory into a multidisciplinary cultural center began in 2015. The process was interrupted, transformed, and finally, in the fall of 2023, after eight years of work, the project was publicly presented to the world.  In an interview for Suspilne Kultura, Documenting Ukraine grantee Anastasiia Platonova spoke with Bozhena Pelenska, the director of Jam Factory, about what it was like to launch a massive cultural institution in the second year of a full-scale war, the ambition required to develop Ukraine’s artistic ecosystem, and future plans for the Jam Factory.
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