'Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline' mit Oleksiy Radynski, Hito Steyerl und Tjan Zaochnaja, moderiert von Philipp Goll

In the organizer's words:

On the occasion of the presentation of the book Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline (ed. by Philipp Goll, adocs Hamburg 2026), the participants will examine the gas pipelines that stretch from Siberia to Western Europe. Based on the research project Leak. The End of the Pipeline research project by Philipp Goll, Oleksiy Radynski and Hito Steyerl, the event will look at the ecological impact of Russian colonialism and the inter-imperial gas pipeline deals between (West) Germany and (Soviet) Russia since the 1970s. The situation of indigenous peoples in Russian-occupied territories and anti-colonial activism in North Eurasia against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine will also be discussed.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and author based in Berlin. Her work deals with media, technology and the global circulation of images and includes video installations, digital environments and written works. She is Professor of Emergent Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and runs the research platform there together with Francis Hunger.

Philipp Goll works as a freelance artistic researcher and combines forms of knowledge production in theory, film and dance. Since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Philipp's research has focused on the history of the German-Russian gas trade, petro-aggression and activism against extractivism. Philipp's recent publications include Western Dissidenz (Spector 2025) on literary activism in West German popular culture since 1968.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and author based in Kyiv. His films have been shown at the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, where he received the Grand Prix for his film Chornobyl 22. His texts have been published in e-flux journal, The Atlantic and taz - die tageszeitung, among others. He has been involved in the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv since 2008. Radynski is also co-founder of the filmmakers' collective Kinotron Group.

Tjan Zaochnaya is a Soviet dissident and human rights activist. Since the 1980s, she has been campaigning for the rights of indigenous communities that are oppressed (in the context of the Soviet Union and Russia). After her expulsion by the Soviet authorities, she moved to Munich. Since then, she has been providing information on the impact of resource extraction on indigenous ways of life - particularly in light of the fact that Germany and Europe were among the most important consumers of Russian oil, gas and coal until the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. She is a member of the Munich group of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICPR).

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