Vincent E. 

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Contaminated Temporalities

University of Amsterdam
September, 2023 Colonial time is not linear: it turns and swirls in different directions. To understand the conflicting and overlapping temporalities of the Russian settler colonial project, I will read an archive of Soviet visual culture alongside the archives of nuclear contamination of water, soil and human and non-human bodies. Leaving residues in bodies and lands, the long-term violence of Russian settler colonialism traverses its visions of progress.  The consequences of Soviet futuristic terraforming visions stay in the soil, water and bodies long after the dissolution of the USSR.  
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture
Beginnings and Ends of Russian Colonialism
With Anna Engelhardt 

Goldsmiths, University of London
May, 2023 As the dead of one war haunt the dead of another, we ask the question: how to amplify the obsolescence of colonial regimes? This dialogue focuses on the temporalities of Russian colonialism to untangle its ends. Colonialism twists and swirls in multiple directions rather than moving forward in time. Leaving residues in bodies and lands, the long-term violence of Russian settler colonialism stays in the soil, water and bodies. Exercised through monstrous logistical infrastructures, occasionally malfunctioning weapons, proxy militaries and cyberwar tactics, Russian colonial wars span across generations and subject their targets to recursive cycles of fear and violence. Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture, Infrastructures
Contaminating Images

nGBK, Berlin Өмә Exhibition Public Program
April, 2023

 How does visual culture support nuclear colonialism? This lecture engages in a dialogue with “Thyroxia,” an artwork by Keto Gorgadze and Ptuška, which addresses russian nuclear colonialism.  It discusses three aspects of colonialism: contamination, and temporalities.

Epistemic inequality: By centring the bodily experience of russian nuclear colonialism, Keto Gorgadze and Ptuška reveal a structural inequality that enables the gradual destruction of bodies. According to geographer Thom Davies, “epistemic inequality” invalidates the experiences of colonialism and decolonial resistance, thus paving the way for long-term violence. In the soviet context, the images of fake unity produced epistemic inequality. An examination of the visual culture of the “friendship of the people” will expose how russification tried to rob these people, many of whom resisted russian colonialism, of their future.

Clashing temporalities: The extended temporalities of disease and contamination revealed by “Thyroxia” are in direct conflict with the temporalities of progress produced by the Soviet visual culture of the “peaceful atom.” Interrogating this temporal clash, this lecture looks at how the Soviet visual culture developed the infrastructural visions of progress that sustained the deathworlds of colonial violence.

Resistance: Introducing Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Georgian resistance to the deadly effects of Soviet nuclear colonialism, “Thyroxia” demonstrates the possibility of a future not occupied by russia. Expanding on that, this lecture discusses other resistances to russian nuclear colonialism and their versions of the future
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture
Are.na
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