Ecocide

Alex Fisher is a writer and curator from Buffalo, New York. In May 2023, he will graduate with a master's in Design Studies (Domain: Narratives; Trajectory: Power and Place) from Harvard University. His research interests are in (re)formations of legacy and the mutual associations of natural, built, and political environments in formerly socialist contexts. He received his bachelor's from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Economics and History of Art. In 2019-2020, he served as a Fulbright Student Research Fellow in Ukraine, during which he conducted fieldwork and organized artistic programs in cooperation with a wide range of public and private cultural platforms.

Natasha Chychasova is a curator and researcher from Donetsk, based in Kyiv. She works on post-Soviet legacy and on strategies for its deconstruction, and on feminist art practices. Chychasova graduated with a master's program in art history from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Currently, she works as a head of the contemporary art department at the National Art and Culture Museum Complex "Mystetskyi Arsenal", Kyiv. Her curatorial projects include: Finally, we're here! (Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2019); By memory (Odesa,Ukraine, 2019); This is not a museum, this is a plant (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020), Non-Human trilogy (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020); Letter To Mother (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020), Silence féminin (2020-2022), Ukraine Ablaze platform (2022), Heart of Earth (2022), Forms of presence (2023). Her articles were published at Your Art, ArtsLooker, SHUM magazine, Blok magazine, and Spaika media.

Kateryna Polianska is an environmental scientist in the International Charitable Organization «Environment-People-Law» based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kateryna gained a Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Geophysics and Geochemistry of Landscape from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University in Ukraine with a dissertation entitled: Landscapes of Desna River valley as environment and objects for conservation of nature. She is an expert on geo-ecological issues, landscape studies, conservation biology, writing analytical documents, research of the river valleys nature, protection of the wild animals, development of the Emerald Network - network of international protected areas, and ecological education. Her responsibilities: counseling citizens on issues of environmental protection, research of anthropogenic factors on the environment, scientific assistance to lawyers in handling EPL court cases, participation in the environmental impact assessment procedure and strategic environmental assessment, protection of valuable natural areas, study of the impact of hostilities on the environment, calculation of losses due to war and methods of restoration of natural areas.