…We Will Build a Brave New World. On the status and the working conditions of an artist in Belarus

Researcher and curator Tania Arcimovich presents an essay on the social and economic status of Belarusian artists. In the frame of her mini-research, she compares local experiences within the art field with transformations happening in the global sphere of culture.

Nobody speaks with me as though I was a human being

In the fragment of an essay, curator and researcher Tania Arcimovich collects personal reflections from the everyday life of cultural workers from Belarus. She questions why non-public and non-visible lives full of anxieties and affects hardly could be found in artistic bios and CVs.