Bad Seeds

Foreword
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The revolutions of the past were inspired by faith in a better future. Today by contrast, a myth-shrouded notion of «history» and historical roots are often invoked in the attempts to topple existing orders. This is at any rate the opinion of the Ukrainian artist and author Oleksiy Radynski, who will speak at kunstraum lakeside in November on the current battles being waged in his country. In his «Cacophony of Donbas» he analyzes the Russian-Ukrainian war as a fundamentalist reaction to globalization and illuminates the double role of the media as commentator on and active participant in political and military conflicts.   >>