First video presentation of current scholars
Coming Easter-Saturday, 19.4.2025, we will present 2 Videos of Anna Potyomkina and 1 video of, Juan Bermudez, two of our current scholars.
Anna Potyomkina:
- Once I Got a Sleeping Sickness
in coauthorship with Diana Derii and Kris Voitkiv
sound: Maks Yos
2023
This work emerged from family history research during the Memory Lab residency. It weaves together two storylines: Anna’s childhood summers at a dacha in Mykolaiv, still growing tomatoes despite russian shelling, and family deaths during the Holodomor in 1930-s. Through themes of body, land, and food as tools of terror, she reflects on how inherited trauma echoes through illness, memory, and sexuality.
- The Tale of the Girl Who Remembered Everything
sound: Maks Yos, Svitlana Nianio
2023
The video is about a trip to Anna’s home city Mykolaiv, about returning to landscapes and memories from childhood, which today are often damaged or destroyed because of russian invasion. In this constant returning home, she was interested in working with fairy- tale and mythological forms, finding them in her own memory, and constructing a narrative, where help in danger does not come from outside, but is born from within.
Juan Bermudez:
- Bells should be ringing
2023 – 2024
At midday in Reykjavik, the city’s oldest clock marks 1:25 pm—revealing the dissonance between man-made time systems and natural rhythms. Situated between documentary, essay, and sound poem, the video explores temporal asynchronicity in contemporary life. Through the absence of bell sounds, it invites viewers to reflect on what is heard, what is missing, and how time is shaped by the systems we follow and the environment