COSTUMES AND COLLAPSE: Sasha Razor and Rufina Bazlova, Round Table, July 12, 2023, 7 PM

During this round table, researcher Sasha Razor and visual artist Rufina Bazlova will reflect upon the use of traditional textiles in the context of the protests in Belarus in 2020. Introducing their own practices and research, the discussion will draw some lines between traditional clothing, the affirmation of citizens agency in the Belarus society and new potential techniques for ornaments such as digital. Bazlova will also introduce The #FramedinBelarus project which honors political prisoners who were unjustly convicted in Belarus by using an old traditional Belarusian technique of embroidering with red thread on a white background and to fix an important age of Belarusian history in a (inter)national folk work.

The doors open at 19:00.
Free admission. 

Language: English. 

Rufina Bazlova is a Belarusian interdisciplinary artist who works with the traditional folk embroidery as a medium to depict socio-political issues.

Sasha Razor is a lecturer in Germanic and Slavic Studies and Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She earned her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 2020, with a dissertation focused on Soviet screenwriting in the 1920s and 1930s. Her research interests include avant-garde cinema and literature, Belarusian and Ukrainian culture, decolonial movements, diaspora studies, activism, visual arts, and women's studies.