Morning Talk: An hour with Asia Bazdyrieva / Moderated by Lesia Vasylchenko.

In collaboration with Podium and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

In this conversation artist, writer and art historian Asia Bazdyrieva will address the image of Ukraine as a resource. She will focus on Ukraine-as-a-territory that has been rendered by dual colonization by Western Europe and the Russian Empire, a position that was further reinforced during the Soviet era.

She will address the material aspects of such a complex colonial gaze, namely, the process of “resourcification”.
That is Ukraine—its territory, natural resources, and people—as merely a site for material transaction. These processes need to be both understood historically, and in the present geopolitical moment.

The existential threat that Ukraine—its territory, bodies, living and non-living matter—are facing today, is entangled with larger arrangements which affect peoples and climates globally.

The conversation is based on Bazdyrievas text No Milk, No Love published in e-flux journal #127 in May 2022, and is moderated by artist and curator Lesia Vasylchenko.

Lesia Vasylchenko is an artist and a co-curator of the artist-run gallery space Podium. The conversation is in english.

We serve pastries and coffee before the conversation.

The event is a part of the program "New Visions in Conversation", visit hok.no for more information.