Fellow 2024

INDEX-IWM - Autumn 2024 4 November – 4 December 2024

Project: The White Cliffs of Vinnytsia

Karolina Uskakovych is a Ukrainian designer, artist, and photographer. She is a co-founder of the Uzvar Collective and Art Director for the magazine Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review. She is also artist-in-residence with the Digital Ecologies research group and one of the founding members of the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network. At INDEX, Karolina will research the cultural appearances of the toxic phosphogypsum stack left at the site of the bankrupt Vinnytsia Chemical Plant.

During her INDEX Fellowship, she delved deeper into the project, developing it into a publication and/or film. The White Cliffs of Vinnytsia explores the distinctly Ukrainian post-industrial urban ecology through film, ethnographic research, archival materials, and collaborations with experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. It offers an ecological entry point into Ukraine’s Soviet past, spectral present, and decolonial futures.

Karolina Uskakovych

Karolina Uskakovych is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, designer, and artist. She graduated from the Non-Linear Narrative master's course at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague. Her art examines the entanglement of nature, culture and technology.

Since 2021 she has worked as the art director of the Anthroposphere: Oxford Climate Review magazine and has been a member of the Digital Ecologies research group. Karolina co-founded the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network, an interdisciplinary space for the academics, practitioners and artists who define this emerging field.