Olia Sosnovskaya
Olia Sosnovskaya (born in Minsk, based in Vienna, Austria) is an artist, writer, and cultural organizer. She works with performative, visual, and textual practices, exploring the intersection of the festive and the political, intertwining collective choreographies, movement scores, and revolutionary temporalities. She is a member of the artistic-research group Problem Collective and the working group Work Hard! Play Hard!
BIAŁOWIEŻA PUSHCHA
2025
performance
The Performance turns to Białowieża forest at the Belarusian-Polish border as a site of sedimented histories of struggle, oppression, interimperiality and a contested borderland.
Historically part of several empires and states and a witness to their dissolution and partisan uprisings, one of the largest remaining parts of the primeval forest in Europe and home to a near threatened european bison, a site of today's EU border and, since 2021, of the so-called 'refugee crisis', Białowieża is a space of struggles over collective memory and nation-building, extractivism and conservation policies, border regimes, knowledge production and (non)linearity of political time.
Focusing on movement, language and its affects, the performance traces embodied relationships to the forest as a fugitive space, resisting linear time and fixed nationalist narratives.
