How can an absence be transformed into something productive? Following two previous conversations on the topics of antagonism and autonomy, we looked at the topic of absence. The field of independent and socially engaged art in Moldova is shaped by absences: a lack of cultural strategies, of local funding, of spaces and other types of infrastructures. Additionally, the massive…

The evolution of Ukrainian artists’ artistic strategies in the last decade, by Yulia Kostereva. Yulia Kostereva showed how artists’ methods and strategies have changed during the ten years of war, based on the activity of the platform Open Place. Her presentation explored how the full-scale invasion in 2022 has affected society, cultural life and artists…

For the first of three discussions in the series Common Ground, Shoghakat Mlké-Galstyan and Anna Provozin introduced us to their practice and spoke about their approaches to art in the context of war.