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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
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SPACES
Windows for Ukraine
RE-WIN’s founder discusses the project’s origins, its theoretical underpinnings, and the implementation of circular economy practices
Cinema and Video
The Ball and the Polo Stick, or the Book of Ecstasy by Furqat Palvan-Zade
syg.ma team597
Follow us on Patreon to watch a film essay by researcher and director Furqat Palvan-Zade, telling the story about the complex political geographies of Central Eurasia
Philosophy and Humanities
On meaning of Life and Death
Dialogue with ChatGPT about meaning of human life and death in rational, hedonistic, materialist and transhumanist prospect
Self-Organization
Vitaliy Bovar: “Deep people is an invention of campaign managers.”
We recorded an interview with Saint Petersburg intransigent opposition municipal deputy Vitaliy Bovar who reflects on his political experience and deprivation of the mandate
Architecture and Cities
Queer Gardens: Care, Resistance and Ferality
Masha Kopylova1218🔥
Exploring queer theories and experiences brought me to realize that the strange way my grandmother took care of her kitchen garden was in fact an act of radical care and kinship with the non-human
Self-Organization
Repressions against Russian academia in the aftermath of the Russian invasion. Perspective of the Univesity Platform
The initiative 'University Platform' sheds light on the repression of lecturers and scientists in Russia and on the conditions of their survival
Art
Reenactment «Parajanov in Tbilisi» (ENG/RU)
Nikita Demin378
Reconstruction and reinterpretation of David Wojnarowicz’s performance art from 1978-1979. A series of 19 photographs about love, sexuality and the status quo in the post-Soviet space.
Poetry
Breaking Walls
Tanya Verver295
My love’s like a waterfall Bursting out of my veins This is our third fall Of the never changing games Where we are little toys,
Play and Vernacular Reversals of the Heroic in Maria Ruzaikina’s Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice
poliaesthete220
The intricate art of Maria Ruzaikina synergises traditional crafts with transdisciplinary contemporaneity, paving the way towards creating new languages of artistic expression
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What is My Language? Filming After Independence: Assia Djebar
lena holub3970🔥
The text argues that the approach Assia Djebar takes is a feminist and anti-colonial one, and looks into the instruments and methods she uses in order to subvert the power narrative
Art
Photography as a Distorted Mirror: Viewing War and Its Mediated Realities
Daria Markushevska1327🔥
This article delves into the complex relationship between war photography and viewer perception, examining the ways in which photography serves as a distorted mirror of war
Society and Politics
Le “Donne in nero”: lutto come protesta
Il movimento delle “Donne in nero” (“Women in Black”, WiB, in ebraico: נשים בשחור [Nashim BeShahor]) apparve a Gerusalemme nel 1988 come protesta contro l’occupazione israeliana dei territori palestinesi...
Philosophy and Humanities
Unraveling the Paradoxes of Modernity: Towards Alternative Paths of Emancipation
This article seeks to answer why the modern approach to emancipation is contentious and consider alternative frameworks that may offer new avenues for liberation
Special projects
Космический бюллетень
Онлайн-издание, вдохновленное идеями космизма и его историческими и современными проявлениями
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
