Strandbad Residency

Alina Dzeravianka is a researcher, activist and a cultural worker from Brest, Belarus. She has a great expertise in organisation of socially engaged cultural activities, researches and work of NGO’s.

Alina Dzeravianka worked as a director of Brest Fortress Development Foundation and currently co-lead the research project STATUS: Role of Artists in Changing Society. She is a visiting lecturer at the Cultural Heritage Development of European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania). Dzeravianka has a large expertise in practices of heritagization and participatory activities in art and culture. During her residency she will focus on her research on women’s crafts, textile and embroidery in the village of Zburazh (Brest region, Belarus). She runs it together with her colleague, artist and designer Svetlana Husakova, while participating in the work of the Rural School of Economics, a trans-local project of knowledge-sharing and cultural co-production in rural communities.

On August 6 2022 we will organise a public meeting with Alina Dzeravianka, where she will present her practice and share her experience with the audience.

Strandbad-Residency is as a part of the two-year collaborative project ARTISTIC ECOLOGIES: NEW COMPASSES, TOOLS AND ALLIANCES conceived in collaboration with WHW (Zagreb), Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam), and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit with Moabit Mountain College (Berlin). The project is co-funded by European Union.