Articles

Dispatch from Ukraine>

Root Сайту — 2026-03-12 00:00:00

In this essay, Siân Norris reflects on her most recent visit to Ukraine, where she traveled to the Donbas region and saw the impact of the war on frontline cities.

The Art of Life in Hokkaido. [Several Notes from My Life-Long Journey]>

Root Сайту — 2026-02-20 00:00:00

Tracing the bookish “Orient” of the Soviet years and his journey to present-day Japan, Mykola Riabchuk transforms personal impressions into reflections on culture, memory, and openness to new experiences.

Beyond Tenderness>

Root Сайту — 2025-12-10 00:00:00

Tenderness survives where violence seeks to erase meaning, emerging as a fragile yet insistent form of human truth. This essay explores how Ukrainian artists confront catastrophe by reclaiming tenderness as an ethical and aesthetic resistance.

A Journey into the Darkness of Time>

Root Сайту — 2025-12-04 00:00:00

Lesia Smyrna examines the photographic practice of Yana Kononova, tracing how her images document the material and psychological landscapes shaped by Russia’s war against Ukraine. This essay explores Kononova’s visual strategies, the ethical dimensions of her work, and the ways her photography expands contemporary understandings of witnessing, trauma, and artistic responsibility.

Maria Kulikovska: Portrait of an Anarchist>

Root Сайту — 2025-11-12 00:00:00

To define Maria Kulikovska within the boundaries of any single identity is an impossible task. Architect, multimedia artist, performer, and political actionist, she exists in constant motion—merging art and life, body and trauma, creation and destruction. Through her hybrid, body-centered practices, Kulikovska transforms personal pain and exile into raw, fluid forms of beauty, defiance, and rebirth. Her works are fragile yet fierce, intimate yet insurgent—vessels of tenderness resisting the violence of the world.

Maya Harbuzyuk and Her Hamlet>

Root Сайту — 2025-08-12 00:00:00

In his foreword to the monograph by Maya Harbuzyuk, who passed away prematurely two years ago, Michael Dobson highlights the originality of her research approach, the depth of her analysis of Hamlet’s stage history, and her ability to connect the local theatrical context with broader European traditions of Shakespearean scholarship.

reverberation>

Root Сайту — 2025-03-31 00:00:00

now these walls are always silent to the touch

brick sails, collapsed in, will fill with the draft

Ukraine’s Image War>

Root Сайту — 2025-02-09 00:00:00

Historian Jeremy Adelman examines how Ukraine is depicted amid Russia's aggression, highlighting the geopolitical narratives and the role of external influences. This article delves into Ukraine's struggle for agency and identity, emphasizing the complexities of its image in the international arena and the impact of media portrayals on its sovereignty and public perception.

Conservative? Russia Before the War>

Root Сайту — 2025-02-06 00:00:00

At first glance, three very different books attempt to grasp an increasingly hegemonic political movement in Russia, whose neo-imperialist ideas undoubtedly had a major influence on both the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s open war against Ukraine.

Georgia at the Crossroads>

Root Сайту — 2024-07-01 00:00:00

Alex Scrivener is the executive director at the Democratic Security Institute – an independent think tank based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He was interviewed by Christopher Ford of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK).