The workshop focuses on the different ways of dissemination of colonial narratives. Can culture be instrumentalized and used as a vehicle for implementing colonial views? Is it possible to use dishes from national cuisine as a tool of cultural superiority? Can a set of visual choices made by a photographer be understood as a colonial gaze? Together with the participants, we will discuss different visual cases from our surroundings (screenshots from media outlets, sculptures in urban

space, etc) and from Dostlievs' work with archives in order to find answers to those questions - or to pose other, even more complicated ones.

Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev are artists from Ukraine, currently based in Poznan, Poland. Lia is also cultural anthropologist and essayist. The primary areas of her research are trauma, post-memory and agency of vulnerable groups. She works in a wide range of media, including photography, installations and textile sculptures, and has exhibited her works in Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Austria and elsewhere. Andrii is also photography researcher and curator. He has degrees in IT and Graphic Design. His primary areas of interest are memory, trauma and identity-both personal and collective. He works in various media and has exhibited his works in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and elsewhere. Currently a work by Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev is shown at the exhibition "Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds" (29. 04. - 28. 08. 2022, National Gallery of Art).

The workshop is part of the project "From Complicated Past Towards Shared Future". It is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and European Union Programme "Creative Europe".

The workshop will be held in English. The event is free of charge. Registration by e-mail: edukacija@ndg.lt

Illustration: Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev. "Black on Prussian Blue", 2020