Dana Kavelina

In her new work, Kavelina presents a science fiction video that shows a utopian future world.
without commodity-money relations and unfree labour, where people dedicate themselves to
gaining knowledge and pondering the events of the past. In their studies, they try to
understand why acts of violence took place before and create a comprehensive model of
history, employing the molecular tracing technology. The result they end up with is a general
computer model of the past that is transparent and open to everyone. Subsequently, they
decide to resurrect all of those who had died in Russia’s war against Ukraine in order to
restore the lost equality of the past and the present. Members of the future society realise
that the way to heal wounds of the people they have brought back to life is through
prolonged collective grief. Thus, they start collecting traumatic memories, rewriting them and
sharing these experiences throughout the society.

The citizens of the future reconsider the notion of equality, concluding that its true form can
only be achieved through equality between the living and the dead. The video is projected
onto sheets hanging in a place that looks like headquarters of future activists: the room is full
of banners and placards, one of which reads, “Resurrection for everyone”.