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Elevate Festival invited Ksenia Ermoshina, who is part of the 64 Faces of We are Europe 2019, to speak during their discourse programme earlier this year. We conducted this interview during the event, which happened to take place on the weekend before the Austrian lockdown. It comes with a short statement she had sent the month before when asked for a few words on the crisis that we are experiencing. She pointed out the situation in Russia, where she had decided to return: the failure of the government, the propaganda, but also solidarity between citizens and creativity.
As the world is facing one of its most serious crises in recent history, Ermoshina’s analysis of climate change, surveillance technology, privacy and human-nature relationship sounds more relevant than ever.
The sanitary crisis of 2020 has been for me an important bifurcation point, not only because it has affected my life and work on many levels, but first and foremost because it has demonstrated the crisis of political institutions and centralized, vertical modes of governance based on hierarchy and blind logistics.
For the time of the pandemic, I have taken a ...
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