Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA)
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Visual arts-led research project challenging the West-centric discourses of the Anthropocene by foregrounding Socialist environmental histories.
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SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Lina Džuverović
Dr. Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based in London. Her current research centers on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives.
Introducing the speakers: Lina Džuverović
Dr. Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based in London. Her current research centers on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives.
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Lina Džuverović
Dr. Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based in London. Her current research centers on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives.
Introducing the speakers: Lina Džuverović
Dr. Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based in London. Her current research centers on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives.
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. His work explores the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
Introducing the speakers: Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. His work explores the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. His work explores the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
Introducing the speakers: Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. His work explores the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Janek Simon
Janek Simon is a Warsaw-based conceptual artist and curator. He currently investigates distance and difference between places and explores the semi-peripheral position of Eastern Europe through geographical experiments.
Introducing the speakers: Janek Simon
Janek Simon is a Warsaw-based conceptual artist and curator. He currently investigates distance and difference between places and explores the semi-peripheral position of Eastern Europe through geographical experiments.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Janek Simon
Janek Simon is a Warsaw-based conceptual artist and curator. He currently investigates distance and difference between places and explores the semi-peripheral position of Eastern Europe through geographical experiments.
Introducing the speakers: Janek Simon
Janek Simon is a Warsaw-based conceptual artist and curator. He currently investigates distance and difference between places and explores the semi-peripheral position of Eastern Europe through geographical experiments.
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Kasia Garapich
Kasia Garapich is a visual artist born in Poland, living and working between London and Kraków. She works across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing.
Introducing the speakers: Kasia Garapich
Kasia Garapich is a visual artist born in Poland, living and working between London and Kraków. She works across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing.
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Kasia Garapich
Kasia Garapich is a visual artist born in Poland, living and working between London and Kraków. She works across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing.
Introducing the speakers: Kasia Garapich
Kasia Garapich is a visual artist born in Poland, living and working between London and Kraków. She works across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing.
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Sarah Wade
Dr. Sarah Wade is an art historian and Associate Professor in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art.
Introducing the speakers: Sarah Wade
Dr. Sarah Wade is an art historian and Associate Professor in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art.
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Sarah Wade
Dr. Sarah Wade is an art historian and Associate Professor in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art.
Introducing the speakers: Sarah Wade
Dr. Sarah Wade is an art historian and Associate Professor in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art.
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Flora Roberts
Dr. Flora Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the environmental history of Soviet Central Asia & building socialism through large infrastructure projects.
Introducing the speakers: Flora Roberts
Dr. Flora Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the environmental history of Soviet Central Asia & building socialism through large infrastructure projects.
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
SAVA RW6: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Flora Roberts
Dr. Flora Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the environmental history of Soviet Central Asia & building socialism through large infrastructure projects.
Introducing the speakers: Flora Roberts
Dr. Flora Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the environmental history of Soviet Central Asia & building socialism through large infrastructure projects.
SAVA RW: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Fahim Amir
Prof. Fahim Amir is professor of philosophy at the University of the Arts Bremen, living in Vienna and Bremen. Amir’s research focuses on nature, culture and colonial historicity, art, utopia, and cohabitation.
Introducing the speakers: Fahim Amir
Prof. Fahim Amir is professor of philosophy at the University of the Arts Bremen, living in Vienna and Bremen. Amir’s research focuses on nature, culture and colonial historicity, art, utopia, and cohabitation.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
SAVA RW: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Fahim Amir
Prof. Fahim Amir is professor of philosophy at the University of the Arts Bremen, living in Vienna and Bremen. Amir’s research focuses on nature, culture and colonial historicity, art, utopia, and cohabitation.
Introducing the speakers: Fahim Amir
Prof. Fahim Amir is professor of philosophy at the University of the Arts Bremen, living in Vienna and Bremen. Amir’s research focuses on nature, culture and colonial historicity, art, utopia, and cohabitation.
SAVA RW: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her large scale installations and writings explore the possibility of nonviolent coexistence across differences, with a specific focus on multispecies politics.
Introducing the speakers: Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her large scale installations and writings explore the possibility of nonviolent coexistence across differences, with a specific focus on multispecies politics.
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
SAVA RW: Eco-Socialist Alliances
Introducing the speakers: Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her large scale installations and writings explore the possibility of nonviolent coexistence across differences, with a specific focus on multispecies politics.
Introducing the speakers: Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her large scale installations and writings explore the possibility of nonviolent coexistence across differences, with a specific focus on multispecies politics.
SAVA Research Week VI: Eco-Socialist Alliances
10 - 11 December 2025, Sainsbury Centre UEA
The 6th edition of SAVA RW explores Beyond-Human and Species under Socialism and examines Ecologies of African Socialisms and their global implications. Link in bio to access full programme!
10 - 11 December 2025, Sainsbury Centre UEA
The 6th edition of SAVA RW explores Beyond-Human and Species under Socialism and examines Ecologies of African Socialisms and their global implications. Link in bio to access full programme!
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
SAVA Research Week VI: Eco-Socialist Alliances
10 - 11 December 2025, Sainsbury Centre UEA
The 6th edition of SAVA RW explores Beyond-Human and Species under Socialism and examines Ecologies of African Socialisms and their global implications. Link in bio to access full programme!
10 - 11 December 2025, Sainsbury Centre UEA
The 6th edition of SAVA RW explores Beyond-Human and Species under Socialism and examines Ecologies of African Socialisms and their global implications. Link in bio to access full programme!
We are excited to announce the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by artist & filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, who was SAVA Creative Fellow 2024-5. The exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents the world premiere of Swan Lake (2025), alongside works from her two decade-long career.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We are excited to announce the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by artist & filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, who was SAVA Creative Fellow 2024-5. The exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents the world premiere of Swan Lake (2025), alongside works from her two decade-long career.
SAVA Begins a New Phase at UEA
We are thrilled to announce that the URKI/ERC supported project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts together with SAVA research team will now be based at the School of History and Art History in the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia!
We are thrilled to announce that the URKI/ERC supported project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts together with SAVA research team will now be based at the School of History and Art History in the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia!
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
SAVA Begins a New Phase at UEA
We are thrilled to announce that the URKI/ERC supported project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts together with SAVA research team will now be based at the School of History and Art History in the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia!
We are thrilled to announce that the URKI/ERC supported project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts together with SAVA research team will now be based at the School of History and Art History in the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia!
We are happy to announce Sammy Baloji as the new SAVA Creative Fellow!
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker exploring the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, and its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker exploring the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, and its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We are happy to announce Sammy Baloji as the new SAVA Creative Fellow!
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker exploring the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, and its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
Sammy Baloji is a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker exploring the colonial history of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Belgian rule, and its lasting ecological impact and entanglements into the present.
The final piece from the online special issue of ARTMargins presents SAVA roundtable, led by Maja Fowkes, bringing together Aïda Adilbek, Aziza Kadyri, Aigerim Kapar, Anel Rakhimzhanova and Saodat Ismailova, in discussion on the environmental transformation of Central Asia during the Soviet period.
September 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The final piece from the online special issue of ARTMargins presents SAVA roundtable, led by Maja Fowkes, bringing together Aïda Adilbek, Aziza Kadyri, Aigerim Kapar, Anel Rakhimzhanova and Saodat Ismailova, in discussion on the environmental transformation of Central Asia during the Soviet period.
The complete online edition of the special issue of ARTMargins on The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, is now available on artmargins.com!
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The complete online edition of the special issue of ARTMargins on The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, is now available on artmargins.com!
Dilda Ramazan: Decolonial and Anthropocene Discourses in Contemporary Art of Former Socialist Contexts
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio!
September 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Dilda Ramazan: Decolonial and Anthropocene Discourses in Contemporary Art of Former Socialist Contexts
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio!
Mia Yu: Sublimating Socialist Construction Through Ink: Introduction to ‘When Thoughts Change, Brush and Ink Cannot Remain Unchanged’
Introducing the contributions of scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Mia Yu: Sublimating Socialist Construction Through Ink: Introduction to ‘When Thoughts Change, Brush and Ink Cannot Remain Unchanged’
Introducing the contributions of scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
IAS Book Launch: Special Issue of ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene
Join Maja and Reuben Fowkes for the launch of the ARTMargins special issue. The evening will feature responses from Josephine Berry, Dimitra Gkitsa, Pushpa Arabindoo and Albert Brenchat Aguilar.
Tickets via link in bio!
Join Maja and Reuben Fowkes for the launch of the ARTMargins special issue. The evening will feature responses from Josephine Berry, Dimitra Gkitsa, Pushpa Arabindoo and Albert Brenchat Aguilar.
Tickets via link in bio!
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IAS Book Launch: Special Issue of ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene
Join Maja and Reuben Fowkes for the launch of the ARTMargins special issue. The evening will feature responses from Josephine Berry, Dimitra Gkitsa, Pushpa Arabindoo and Albert Brenchat Aguilar.
Tickets via link in bio!
Join Maja and Reuben Fowkes for the launch of the ARTMargins special issue. The evening will feature responses from Josephine Berry, Dimitra Gkitsa, Pushpa Arabindoo and Albert Brenchat Aguilar.
Tickets via link in bio!
Dimitra Gkitsa: Chimneys and Electric Wires Conquering the Sky: The Great Transformation of Nature in Socialist Albania
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
September 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Dimitra Gkitsa: Chimneys and Electric Wires Conquering the Sky: The Great Transformation of Nature in Socialist Albania
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Jakub Gawkowski: The Avant-Garde of Socialism in the Prehistoric Jungle: The Temporalities of Coal Mining in 1950s Upper Silesia
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
September 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Jakub Gawkowski: The Avant-Garde of Socialism in the Prehistoric Jungle: The Temporalities of Coal Mining in 1950s Upper Silesia
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja & Reuben Fowkes.
Anel Rakhimzhanova: 'Turksib Was Not Just a Railroad for Me': Visualizing the Anthropocene as a Transit
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Anel Rakhimzhanova: 'Turksib Was Not Just a Railroad for Me': Visualizing the Anthropocene as a Transit
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Link in bio
Maja & Reuben Fowkes: Mega-Dams in the Hydrologics of the Socialist Anthropocene
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore their article via link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore their article via link in bio!
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Maja & Reuben Fowkes: Mega-Dams in the Hydrologics of the Socialist Anthropocene
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore their article via link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special print issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore their article via link in bio!
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán: The Missing Mountain
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán's artist project via link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán's artist project via link in bio!
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán: The Missing Mountain
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán's artist project via link in bio!
Introducing the contributions of artists and scholars to the special issue of ARTMargins: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
Explore Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán's artist project via link in bio!
The special issue of ARTMargins, featuring contributions by Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Jakub Gawkowski, Dimitra Gkitsa, Anel Rakhimzhanova, Dilda Ramazan, Mia Yu, and edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes is out now!
More info via link in bio.
More info via link in bio.
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The special issue of ARTMargins, featuring contributions by Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Jakub Gawkowski, Dimitra Gkitsa, Anel Rakhimzhanova, Dilda Ramazan, Mia Yu, and edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes is out now!
More info via link in bio.
More info via link in bio.
The third SAVA Research Trip, this time to Kosovo and Albania, took place in June 2025. Our programme was full of guided visits to local museums, galleries, and sites of Socialist Anthropocene!
Check out the new post on the SAVA website to learn more about our journey - link in bio!
Check out the new post on the SAVA website to learn more about our journey - link in bio!
July 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The third SAVA Research Trip, this time to Kosovo and Albania, took place in June 2025. Our programme was full of guided visits to local museums, galleries, and sites of Socialist Anthropocene!
Check out the new post on the SAVA website to learn more about our journey - link in bio!
Check out the new post on the SAVA website to learn more about our journey - link in bio!
Our SAVA Research Fellow, Jan Burek, will speak this Friday, 27 June 2025, at 11.15 am at the Polish Cultural History Conference at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He will introduce his research on chemicalization in 1960s Poland as seen through the theoretical lens of the Socialist Anthropocene.
June 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Our SAVA Research Fellow, Jan Burek, will speak this Friday, 27 June 2025, at 11.15 am at the Polish Cultural History Conference at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He will introduce his research on chemicalization in 1960s Poland as seen through the theoretical lens of the Socialist Anthropocene.