How do dams shape landscapes, memories and visions of the future? What traces do water infrastructures leave within ecological, social and political contexts?

The public event Flow Lines brings together artists, researchers and curators from Ukraine and Germany who engage with hydropower infrastructures, ecological transformations and postsocialist landscapes across Ukraine and the former GDR. Developed as part of a long-term research and artistic project, the contributions enter into dialogue with the exhibition Open Archive for Urbanism at station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf.

Flow Lines was initiated by Korsi Berlin e.V. and the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network (UEHN). Through field research in Cherkasy, archival work and artistic inquiry, the project explores the entanglements of water, infrastructure, memory and future imaginaries in different postsocialist contexts.

With: Anna Potyomkina and Oksana Pohrebennyk, Variable Name / Назва змінна (Valerie Karpan and Maryna Marinichenko), Alkistis Thomidou, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Krzysztof Gutfrański

An event by Korsi Berlin e.V., the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network and station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf.

Flow Lines is part of the RHIZOM/RAZOM programme of the Ukrainian Institute in Germany. The programme is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and implemented in cooperation with Insha Osvita.