Keti Chukhrov är en konstteoretiker, filosof, dramatiker och just nu Tage Danielsson-professor vid Linköpings universitet. Hennes senaste bok är Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (2020) och hennes arbete som dramatiker innehåller poesi, drama, performance, musik och video.
 
Under kvällen visas hennes Undead (35 min) från 2022, som följs av ett samtal med publiken.
 
I krigszoner och på platser där konflikterna fryst uppstår en klyfta mellan de som åker iväg, de som är avsedda att stanna kvar och alla de som välvilligt anländer som civiliserade hjältar. Keti Chukhrovs poetiska film återbesöker det georgisk-abchaziska kriget 1992–93, där Ryssland stödde separatisterna.
 
Filmens huvudperson är en ung konstnär som återvänder till den hemstad hon tidigare lämnat som flykting. På uppdrag av en västerländsk institution ska hon nu göra en film om överlevnadsstrategier. Staden är ödelagd och dess invånare är utblottade. Missförstånd och inre konflikter uppstår mellan den samtida konstnärens perspektiv och dom som hon fått i uppdrag att dokumentera…
 
18.00–19.00 Soppa

19.00–19.10 Introduktion till filmen
19.10–19.45 Undead
1945–21.00 Q&A
21.00–22.00 Informellt samtal och förfriskningar

 
School of Emergencies startades av Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus och det (exil)ryska kollektivet Chto Delat sommaren 2022. Den interdisciplinära skolan riktar sig till konstnärer, poeter, forskare och aktivister främst från Ryssland och Sverige, som ett svar på den ökade repressionen i Ryssland. Genom flera moduler 2022 och 2023 tar sig deltagarna tillsammans med mentorer och inbjudna gästlärare an krisen i ett bredare sammanhang av ökad nationalism och populism, åtstramningspolitik och klimatkris.

The School of Emergencies is very pleased to invite you to a film screening and conversation with the Russian philosopher and playwright Keti Chukrov.
 
During the evening she will present her film Undead (35 min) from 2022 and the screening will be followed by a conversation with the audience.
 
Keti Chukhrov. Undead (2022), HD, 35 min. English subtitles. Camera/editing – Alexei Shemiatovsky, Line producer – Mikhail Sedov, Sound – Victor Timshin, with Evgeny Kapustin, Keti Chukhrov, Yuri Vasiliev, Sergey Epishev, Laran, Olga Shirokostup, Sirbey Sangulia, Irina Sajaia. Translation – Anastasia Osipova.
 
Produced and commissioned by Steirischer Herbst.
 
With the support of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
 
In war zones and at sites of frozen conflicts, a gulf arises between those who leave for other places, those who are destined to stay behind, and those who benevolently come as their civilized saviors. Keti Chukhrov’s poetic film revisits the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–93, in which Russia supported the separatists. The unrecognized region’s independent status was later further entrenched by Russia’s blitzkrieg against Georgia in 2008.
 
The film’s protagonist is a young artist who left her hometown years ago as a refugee, and is now returning, commissioned by a Western institution to make a film on survival strategies. The town is devastated, and its inhabitants are destitute. Misunderstandings and inner conflicts arise between the perspective of the contemporary artist and those whom she was commissioned to document. We usually expect that the bereaved might be noble in their hardship. The protagonists of the film are not. They are sarcastic and nasty. We also think that the semi-indigenous sites like this should produce mainly vernaculars. The site in the film, along with the vernaculars, emits the languages of the universal culture, revealing how these two combine after the crash of the empire.
 
18.00–19.00 Soup
19.00–19.10 Introduction
19.10–19.45 Screening: Undead
19.45–21.00 Q&A
21.00–22.00 Informal conversation and bar

 
Keti Chukhrov is an art theorist, philosopher, playwright. Her latest book Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Chukhrov’s work as a playwright incorporates poetry, drama, performance, music, and video. Her films Love-machines (2013) and Communion (2016) made after her dramatic poems were featured at the Bergen Assembly (2013), Specters of Communism (James Gallery, New York, 2015), and the Ljubljana Triennial U3 (2016). Her play Global Congress of Post-Prostitution premiered at steirischer herbst ’19.
 
**The School of Emergencies** was started by Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and the collective Chto Delat in the summer of 2022. The School of Emergencies is a transdisciplinary school for artists, writers, researchers, activists and others mainly from Russia and Sweden, responding to the emergencies created by growing repression in Russia. The fellows of the school together with mentors and invited teachers explore these issues in a broader context of growing nationalistic tendencies and populism, austerity measures and the ongoing climate crisis.