Book talk and screening of the video essay ‘Images and Objects of Russia’s War Against Ukraine’ with Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda
TUESDAY, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. I Hybrid format I Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has destroyed lives, communities, and cities. From the start, images of this destruction spread across various media platforms. Paintings, photographs, drone footage, TikToks, and Instagram posts shaped how the war is experienced, represented, and archived. In the multidisciplinary volume Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine (Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda, eds.), artists, scholars, and writers from Ukraine and beyond explore how art, media, infrastructures, and material culture respond to and contest the Russo–Ukrainian War. This book-talk will feature a presentation of the volume Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine. The editors of the book will explore how different forms of media and artistic expression document and interpret the war, influence collective memory, and engage with the lived realities of the war. In addition, the event will include a screening of an essay film based on selected contributions from the book, highlighting the intersections of art, media, and war. By combining a presentation, video essay, and discussion, the event aims to provide an interdisciplinary reflection on war, visual culture, and media-infrastructural practices in Ukraine.
Natasha Klimenko is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History held at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Miglė Bareikytė is an assistant professor of digital studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder); Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist and head coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS).
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