Damaged still image from a 1987 film by Victor Kyzyma (damage caused by agricultural lime), Urban Media Archive, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

The fog of war: Environmental war crimes in Ukraine
Nabil Ahmed

Location: online - Link
Meeting ID: 891 4012 6735

17.00 CET Friday 25 March 2022

As the situation in Ukraine worsens, the catalog of crimes is growing. Ahmed’s lecture will explore one of its more insidious dimensions, the environmental harm of the Russian invasion in a warming world of widening inequalities. To better understand our present condition some of the forgotten histories of the crimes will be traced against nature before going into how artist-researchers can take on the role of investigators today.

The fog of war: Environmental war crimes in Ukraine is one of a series of events organised alongside Residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads. The residency proposes a process of collective research into intertwined relationships between body and environment, seeking to understand ways in which contaminating toxins cut through lands and bodies. 

This event is held in collaboration with artist Kajsa Dahlberg; The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; and Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.