In this podcast, we will learn more about a research project that our invited guest, Olga Sasunkevich, was involved in: Spaces of Resistance: A Study of Gender and Sexualities in Times of Transformation. Her project brought together multi-sited ethnography, digital ethnography and comparative analysis. Maxine Chionh, Julia Florentzi and Kinga Molińska with Olga Sasunkevich, Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg explore the ways in which feminist and decolonial perspectives in gender studies intersect with their artistic research and practice.

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Olga Sasunkevich: Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Olga’s research interests revolve around questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe.

Maxine Chionh: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand with an art and writing practice. Maxine’s research and practice investigate the postcolonial struggle from an East and SE Asian perspective, with an especial interest in persistent coloniality, denialism and missing publics.

Julia Florentzi: Student at the MFA Fine Art programme of HDK-Valand. Her artistic practice is oriented around feminist issues, love in patriarchy as well as feminist commons, friendship and protest. In her current studio practice she works with embroidering text and image. She is also into the making of an art book.

Kinga Molińska: Student at the MFA Fine Art, HDK-Valand, who develops feminist, spatial, multisensorially integrated artistic methods. Her artistic practice focuses on resonating bodies and bodies in transformation as a departing point to investigate body politics, alternative knowledges (erotic, tactile, sonic, somatic), empathy and collective care.

The Dialogues Podcast Project is a podcast series produced by students from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programme at the HDK-Valand Academy – Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, and published by K103 Gothenburg Student Radio.