Collision of Temporalities
Founder and Curator
2026 – Ongoing
2026 – Ongoing
Overview
Collision of Temporalities is an ongoing independent curatorial project developed in collaboration with my friend and colleague, Liliia Hladunova. Together, we are building a long-term research and curatorial platform that explores how memories, myths, folklore, and oral storytelling move across past, present, and future, continually shaping the ways we understand ourselves and the world around us.
Our research begins with two interconnected concerns. The first is the gradual disappearance of oral storytelling traditions. For generations, oral narratives have been more than a way of preserving history. They have transmitted knowledge, values, beliefs, and cultural memory while creating opportunities for people to gather, listen, imagine, and learn together.
The second concerns the stories that have survived. We are interested in how myths and folklore are continually rewritten, and how many of the versions that have become culturally dominant have been shaped by patriarchal perspectives. Figures who may once have embodied power, knowledge, resistance, or transformation have often been recast as monsters, villains, or cautionary tales.
Beyond the stories themselves, we question how the decline of oral traditions affects our capacity to connect with one another, to nurture imagination, and to envision alternative futures. Storytelling has long been a way of exercising creativity, strengthening memory, and passing knowledge across generations. As these collective rituals become less common, we risk losing not only cultural heritage but also spaces where imagination, empathy, and shared experience can flourish.
Rather than treating folklore as something fixed in the past, Collision of Temporalities invites artists and writers to reinterpret inherited narratives through contemporary perspectives. Through open calls, commissioned works, research, and future exhibitions, the project creates a space where ancient stories can be revisited, questioned, and transformed into new forms of cultural production.
We are developing a digital archive and exhibition, the project brings together writers and visual artists whose practices engage with cultural memory, inherited narratives, and speculative forms of storytelling.
The long-term aim is to develop the project into a physical exhibition while continuing to expand its online presence.
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