Ksenia Yurkova/ AT
Guerrilla Gardening 2018
14:05
Ksenia Yurkova
-14:05
-01:33:55
05/02/2025

/BY/UA

online

Entanglement of Infrastructures: Civilian Systems under the Pressures of Militarization, online presentation of the first issue of AWC Journal

participants

Natasha Chychasova/ UAeeefff/ BY/DETatiana Kochubinska/ UAOleksii Minko/ UAHanna Paniutsich/ BY/GBAntonina Stebur/ BY/PL

with the support of

Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania

How do war and violence transform infrastructures designed for civilian life? What happens when homes, roads, digital networks, and ecological systems are absorbed into military strategies? Can artistic and forensic methodologies reclaim infrastructures from war's logic? The first issue of AWC Journal explores how war reshapes infrastructures across physical, social, digital, and ecological domains, exposing their deep entanglement with power, control, and survival. It examines the blurred boundaries between civilian and military systems, revealing how logistics, communication networks, housing, and even environmental landscapes are weaponized in times of conflict. At the same time, it looks at creative strategies that challenge these militarized structures---acts of sabotage, counter-mapping, and speculative storytelling that expose, disrupt, and reclaim infrastructures from the logic of war.

The presentation will feature insights from the journal's editor-in-chief Antonina Stebur, co-editor Tatiana Kochubinska, as well as contributions from Oleksii Minko, Natasha Chychasova, eeefff, and Hanna Paniutsich. Together, we'll discuss the complexities of militarization's impact on various systems and the growing interdependencies between civilian and military domains. The event will provide a deeper understanding of the physical, social, cultural, and ecological effects of militarization, and how these forces are shaping our world demonstrating its connectedness and interdependency.