Bloodlands 20/22 Belarus/Ukraine

Bloodlands 20/22 Belarus/Ukraine — кніга вершаў і фотаздымкаў пра падзеі на «крывавых землях», што праходзяць пакутліва розны шлях дэкаланізацыі. Кадры і субтытры незнятага кінафільма. Book consists of about 20 verses/texts dedicated to Belarusan revolution of 2020 and Russian military aggression against Ukraine in 2022. The second part includes also translation to Belarusan of prominent Ukrainian literators: Vyacheslav Levytskyi, Lesyk Panasiuk, Angie Siveria, Ivan Semesyuk, Tanya Rodionova. Photo part of the book consists about 40 photos about both Belarusan revolution and war in Ukraine. Photos from Belarus – Ales Piletski (TutBy, Free Belarus Centre) and his captures from mass protests in Viciebsk (Eastern Belarus). Photos from Ukraine – Stanislav Krupař (Czech war journalist, working for Die Zeit, Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, The New York Times, Time, De Standaard, NZZ, Reportérmagazín and others). Ales Plotka is an independent Belarusan artist from Ukraine (temporarily a war refugee in Europe). One of active translators of Ukrainian literature to Belarusan language and promoter of decolonial dialogue between two nations. Being an Ukrainian resident, who is a citizen of Belarus, which territory is used for aggression against Ukraine, Ales’ represents this dramatic self-ifentity situation in his literature. His poetry and translations give a precise and painful look at a complicated collective trauma and at controversial dialogue which happens between two nations who pass their decolonial way via different paths.