Donbas Studies: Розмова про рослини, пам’ять, номадичність та війну/ Conversation about Plants, Memory, Nomadism and War

Description

‘I am a rubber plant’ — says a flowerpot on a mental map created by Olga during Donbass Odyssey project in Odesa (Ukraine). Olga moved from Makiivka to Odesa due to the war in eastern Ukraine. There are many narratives about houseplants and gardens in oral stories and mental maps collected by Darya Tsymbalyuk, and they became a focus of her PhD research (University of St Andrews, Scotland).

On Thursday, Darya will share her latest ideas on cultural memory, the anthropocene, ways of discussing experience of displacement outside binary categories, networks (between people and people, plants and people) disrupted by war and newly created, and about the image of rooting.

Period	17 Jan 2019
Held at	IZOLYATSIA: Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Ukraine