Ilostmylibrary

Verification of the Paranormal Phenomenon of Vampirism within the Dimension of Precarpathian Myth-Making

Verification of the Paranormal Phenomenon of Vampirism within the Dimension of Precarpathian Myth-Making is a zine by photographer and artist Olesia Saienko (Ukraine), presenting the findings of the eponymous project carried out in Ivano-Frankivsk between 2020 and 2023. The starting point for the work was a propaganda report on a Russian TV channel about a vampire from Ivano-Frankivsk. Using the tools of psychogeography, the artist managed to uncover traces of paranormal phenomena and beings.

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The Exercises on Female Exhibitionism

“The Exercises on Female Exhibitionism” is a zine researching interconnections between pornography in image and in text as well as manifesting women’s right to erotic and perverse. Alina Panasenko - film director. She works with the mediums of image and text and traces eroticism in local socio-political context.

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Matches

"Dear Sufferers, I wish you, my dear ones, good luck on the path of reading, acting out, parodying, criticising, mocking, feeling resentment and affection whileg to know these people. They are now in your trusted eyes. And I have only one request for you: while reading, please do not imagine yourself as scattered earth, and if you have already done, do not blow it away" - from the play "Matches" by Yevhenia Belorusets. Yevheniia Belorusets is a Ukrainian photographer, writer and translator. Her work lies at the intersection of visual art, literature, journalism and civic activism, between documentary and fiction. The theater play "Matches" was written and illustrated by the author in 2023.

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Ilostmylibrary is a publishing project by the NGO Asortymentna Kimnata and an (almost accidental) collection of books about the unreported, unpopular, and peripheral. It’s an unstructured library with plenty of gray areas and a lack of linearity. It is similar to the spontaneous libraries that still appear in our (temporary) homes, even if we have decided not to collect books anymore.