Building solidarity beyond borders. Everybody can contribute
Syg.ma is a community-run multilingual media platform and translocal archive.
Since 2014, researchers, artists, collectives, and cultural institutions have been publishing their work here
Any language
Featured
Pinned posts
Society and Politics
Not a Single Story* or Why Decoloniality Matters and How We Can Make It Visible
de_colonialanguage2.4K🔥
why the largest square in Berlin is honoring russian imperialism in one of its most active periods and how we can rename it by art actions
Cinema and Video
Standard time: a conversation with the filmmaker Cyril Schäublin
From Issue 4—General Public — Summer 2020 (Archive) We discuss WIP of “Unrest”, based on Peter Kropotkin’s time in the Jura mountains, where he meets the workers from the local watchmaking factory
Society and Politics
Революція наперекір: інтерв'ю про Рожаву з Анею Ребрій та Лізою Шишко. Ч.1
Низовина189
Інтерв'ю з Анею Ребрій та Лізою Шишко про рожавську соціальну революцію
Art
TRAVELING BODIES, COMMONING WORLDS
From Issue 5—Rose of Venus— Summer 2023 (Archive), co-edited with Hanna Horn. Researchers and dramaturgs Ana Vujanovic and Bojana Cvejic in conversation Anastasia Kolas
Art
Slavs and Tatars: Interview
From Issue 2—Acid Reflux—Summer 2019 (Archive)
The interview by Katherine Rutkevich and translated by Anastasia Kolas, with some editorial adjustment by Slavs and Tatars.
Philosophy and Humanities
Clarity and Resistance
Gleb Simonov634
From a brief lecture on poetic difficulty and form
Philosophy and Humanities
Assemblage concept
Encyclopedic description of the key concept of contemporary materialist ontology
Philosophy and Humanities
“The End of Judaism” by Giorgio Agamben
sophulate 1.4K🔥
English translation of Agamben’s recognition of incompatibility of Judaism and Zionism
Society and Politics
OTHERARCHIVES
de_colonialanguage1.5K🔥
on recovering archives from bread and tea via rendering limits and disruptions of hierarchies towards collective co-actions
Notes
When memories become feelings (and vice versa) / Когда воспоминания становятся чувствами (и наоборот)
On photography, memory and going beyond their boundaries / О фотографии, памяти и выходе за их пределы
Theater and Dance
ʒиN 11: DADA-DANCE
ʒиN1.1K🔥
is a relay dance unfolding in time and on a plane, it is a dance performed and / or depicted, it is a movement from left to right, but forward
Philosophy and Humanities
The Body is the Language. what is this telling us?
to find the beach under the paving stones, we need Bodies on the streets
Art
La storia ripetese stessa? Una conversazione tra Alessandra Franetovich e Arseny Zhilyaev
Conversazione tra la curatrice Alessandra Franetovich e l’artista Arseniy Zhilyaev sul contesto della sua formazione
Special projects
Collections of texts, multimedia materials and special events prepared by the editorial board together with the syg.ma community or our institutional partners
и-флакс
Обновляемая подборка переводов на русский текстов журнала о современном искусстве, культуре и теории e-flux
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity