INFORMALITY OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LIFE AS THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO SURVIVE IN THE FRONTLINE CITY KHERSON
KHERSON REGION: STEPPE AND WILL/FREEDOM. Abstract for the Global Informality in the Arts conference, to be held at University College London (UCL) and Pushkin House, London, 15-16 January 2026 Introduction How to overcome our powerlessness before the system? How to create our own powerful system of self-determination - individual and group? In Ukraine, a unique situation of unification has developed significantly: individual and national, state and non-state (NGO), all-Ukrainian and local (city, village), personal and social, systemic and informal for the sake of one great goal - Independence of Ukraine in all senses: freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights, resistance, decolonization, "away from Moscow", etc. The war with russian fascist invaders is a real game changer, in a split second everything changed. I will talk about my city - unbreakable Kherson, about its unique Kherson cultural intellectual underground, which gives us strength and joy to ...