'Sterben fußlose Vögel im Flug? Oder Entwurzelung als produktiver Zustand' mit Madina Tlostanova

In the organizer's words:

In the 20th century, many authors and artists resorted to the metaphor of the bird that cannot land and is condemned to remain in flight forever. This motif was mostly used as an expression of nonconformity to social norms and existential alienation - but less in the sense of the real experiences of displacement and displacement resulting from geopolitical conflicts, ethnic cleansing, neo-colonial wars and migrations caused by the Anthropocene, which are increasingly becoming an everyday reality in the current century. The restless bird here takes the form of the real exile fleeing war or climate catastrophe, especially under the conditions of the semi-periphery in so-called "Central Eastern Europe". This growing transversal community of restless birds is a crucial actor in shaping a future that is already dawning; their fate should be understood not only as a tragedy of non-belonging, but also as a gift of adaptation, relationality and discontinuity as a generative condition.

This will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Vasyl Cherepanyn (Kyiv Biennial).

Madina Tlostanova is a decolonial feminist thinker, author of fictional texts and Professor of Gender Studies at Linköping University in Sweden. Her research interests include epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of decoloniality, the post-Soviet reality of life, literature and art, as well as critical futures and interventions in processes of complexity, crisis and change. Her recent books include A New Political Imagination, Making the Case (co-authored with Tony Fry, Routledge, 2020), Decoloniality of Knowledge, Being and Sensing (Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Kazakhstan, 2020) and Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-Joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023). She is currently working on the monograph Not by Leviathan Alone. An Exercise in Post-Nation-State Worlding.

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