In the fall of 2023, I collaborated with two wonderful Bard colleagues — Profs. Masha Shpolberg and Greg Moynahan — on a new class that set out to explore how various anti- post- and de-colonial theories might help us (or not) explain what is happening in the ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. For their final projects, students responded to/remixed works by Ukrainian artists while drawing in some of these theoretical concepts. We’ve created a site to house the syllabus (also archived at the Center for Urban History in L’viv) alongside these students works: decolonialukraine.art. We hope this site can be a resource for others.
