Between plant fossils and oral histories: tracing vegetal imaginaries from Donbas, Ukraine
(2021)
author(s): Darya Tsymbalyuk
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition brings together multiple contexts, narratives and modes of expression to tell multispecies (hi)stories about and from Donbas region, Ukraine, where a military conflict broke out in 2014. By engaging with fossils, paleobotany and testimonies of internally displaced persons, the exposition explores vegetal imaginaries of the region in a series of drawings and questions stories we tell about Donbas and displacement, and ways in which we tell them.
We Shared A Belly Podcast
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lakisha Apostel
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'We shared a belly' is a intimate podcast which explores displacement from the perspective of Lakisha Apostel, a person of African descent who grew up on Curaçao. The prevalent presence of displacement within her life and art practice has led her to make this podcast as she concludes her Bachelors at The Royal Academy of The Hague.
This podcast consist of five episodes, each one of them tackle different questions and topics surrounding displacement, origin and the rejection origin. The content moves between the personal and collective with help of authors such as Édouard Glissant and Toni Morrison. One can view the 'We shared a belly' podcast as a precipice from which one can jump into a myriad of different of topics, questions or thoughts surrounding displacement. This podcast is available on the Research Catalogue and Soundcloud.