This episode features three voices from Central Asia and Ukraine whose practices center on memory, language, and the politics of knowledge.

Alima Tokmergenova works through research, education, and collective practice in Bishkek, developing new ways to speak about local art and building spaces where people can learn, read, and create together.

Katya Buchatska turns to sculpture, installation, and performance to navigate life during a full-scale war, using art as a form of witnessing, resilience, and connection.

Their stories intersect around the need to invent new languages for shared histories, and to imagine futures that resist erasure and isolation.

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