My name is Kseniia, I’m 20 years old, I am a third year student of the Art, Design & Technology department in Arnhem, and have just finished my internship at ArtEZ studium generale.
I am from Moscow, and I currently live on a hill. I don’t exactly know who I am — designer, writer, illustrator, researcher, programmer— and I don’t think I should. But I know that moving lands has affected my perspective greatly, I know that existing in between fields of art and technology allows me to get into places I wouldn’t get to otherwise and I know that sometimes I don’t want to go out, because I dread biking back up the hill.
This patchwork brings together my accounts of day- to-day experiences and how they inform, evoke and necessitate my politics. Answering phone on a hotline for protestors during unrest in Russia for 12 hours straight, going to open mines at Hambach forest with my class where people protest destruction of the forest while huge pointless machines roar on the background and then reading Bruno Latour on Critical Zones for Honours Program on the way back while the bus is shaking slightly
All these experiences are ways to experience land and various impacts of various policies, weaving a huge never-ending pattern.
This project is a lacing of how I position myself, and hopefully, a route to helping you to position yourself, too.
You can visit the website and follow different routes: listen to some of the spaces I find myself in and maybe see how our urgencies overlap, read a short interview tied together with a collection of various advocacy work examples and theories talking about them.
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