Blog

On the beau­ti­ful, rad­i­cal, acces­si­ble, pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­for­mance and Yiddish. 

Nov 15, 2016

Anna Ele­na Tor­res talks with Yev­geniy Fiks about Inter­na­tion­al­ism, queer pol­i­tics, utopias and imag­i­nary map­ping, and Sovi­et Yiddish.

Apr 05, 2017

Erin Fai­gin asks utopi­an ques­tions in Clar­i­on, Utah, the site of a for­mer Yid­dish agri­cul­tur­al colony.

Dec 27, 2017

Yev­geniy Fiks vis­its Biro­bidzhan, and refus­es nos­tal­gia and mourn­ing on his return. 

May 07, 2018

Yev­geniy Fiks and Laris­sa Bab­ji invit­ed artists to engage with Kalman Zingman’s 1918 Yid­dish-lan­guage utopi­an novel­la In der tsukun­ft-shtot ede­nia (In Ede­nia, a City of the Future), pub­lished in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They dis­played the results in an exhi­bi­tion at Yer­milov Cen­ter in Kharkiv, Ukraine in June 2017. Here they dis­cuss the nov­el, the process that led to the exhi­bi­tion, and the polit­i­cal and social real­i­ties that their project sought to address.

Nov 01, 2018

Lipsker reviews Yev­geniy Fik­s’s exhi­bi­tion Himl un Erd, a project that bold­ly probes the con­nec­tions between Russ­ian-Jew­ish his­to­ry and the Sovi­et space-explo­ration projects. 

Dec 14, 2018