ABOUT SPEAKING TRUTH | SUMMIT X
Can speaking truth to power unravel the age of disillusion we find ourselves in?
As fierce debates about the nature of truth rage on globally, Speaking Truth | Summit X explores radical truth-telling and its implications, manifestations, potentialities, and challenges across disparate yet interconnected fields. Join the conversation using the #CTSummit tag on Instagram & Twitter!
ABOUT THIS SECTION
Speakers in this section analyze how we can offset the political effects that shape our present condition by re-imagining various forms of institutional, physical, and mental decolonization through empowering fictions and future utopias of togetherness. We address the effects of fiction that are critical in drawing attention to the framing mechanisms of deception and explore how art and culture have the capacity to experiment with strategies of deception and fiction that catalyze change.
ABOUT VICTORIA LOMASKO
“I felt the need to complete my drawings on the spot, to serve as a conductor for the energy generated by events as they happened.”
Describing her work as accurate, rather than political, Victoria Lomasko’s practice explores contemporary Russian society, especially the inner workings of the country’s diverse subcultures, such as Russian Orthodox believers, LGBT activists, migrant workers, sex workers, prisoners, and so on. Victoria Lomasko’s most recent book Other Russias (n+1 and Penguin, 2017), is a collection of ‘graphic reportages,’ a self-described style of art making and record keeping.