A SERIES OF EVENTS WITHIN THE PROJECT STATUS
OCTOBER 2022 
BELARUS | SWEDEN






“...WE WILL BUILD A BRAVE NEW WORLD. ON THE STATUS AND THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF AN ARTIST IN BELARUS” (2019)



︎The series “We will build a brave new world” was first published as a set of illustrations that accompanied Tania Arcimovich’s essay “We will build a brave new world. On the status and the working conditions of an artist in Belarus” on Status Research Platform in 2019. Svyatogor’s vivid socio-fantastic images reflect on the artist’s anxiety-fueled liminal position in the contemporary post-Soviet Belarusian labor market. Stuck in the dialectic of artmaking as neoliberal production (work) versus Soviet-typed ideological or dissident vocation (non-work), many of the artists are forced to endure radical financial instability, debasing work conditions, and disorienting socio-economic relations. For Svyatogor, this existential crisis becomes the creative source which inspires her to imagine a “brave new world” in which artists might define their own place and status in society.

Words by Aniko Szucs




︎THE CONGRESS-PERFORMANCE
OF CULTURAL WORKERS︎


THE EVENT TOOK PLACE ON NOVEMBER 23, 2019 IN MINSK, BELARUS




HOW TO STAY WITH ART TODAY?


A GROUP SHOW IN THE FRAME OF THE PROJECT
“STATUS: THE ROLE OF ARTISTS IN CHANGING SOCIETY
(BELARUS & SWEDEN)”
21.11 - 7.12.2019
KX, Brest, Belarus

&

STATUS – ARTISTIC PRACTICE 
AND SOCIAL CHANGE


THE EXHIBITION WITHIN THE PROJECT STATUS
9 - 12 January 2020
Konstepidemin Art Center, Göteborg, Sweden









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