For this episode I had the pleasure to speak (again) with Tasha Arlova - a visual artist, filmmaker, public speaker and activist originally from Vitebsk, Belarus currently living and working in the Netherlands. In her recent work, Tasha looks back at her homeland, Belarus, exploring different ways in which the country is represented in the “West”. Her art practice as well as curatorial and activists engagements all attempt to subvert the "Western gaze" showing the East in a fresh and informed way.

References: Dear Revolution (trailer) // Dries Blueberries in My Pocket (thesis) // Belarus // Art of Resistance (exhibition) // The Freedom Lecture: Belarus // Carrots and Sticks (conversation) // Belarus - Screams of the Silenced (exhibition) // lovers' Notebooks (trailer) // Pure Art (trailer) // Get in touch with political prisoners in Belarus

Favourite home food: Draniki

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