Disturbed Ground

Disturbed Ground is a collaboration between Kyiv’s ∄ and CTM Festival that brings together Ukrainian and European artists to examine the ecological impact of russia’s full-scale invasion. Co-curated by ∄, CTM, Mariana Berezovska, and alen hast (u2203), and supported by the Goethe-Institut, the project builds on the earlier research programme Echoes of the Earth. In June 2025, artists worked on-site at ∄’s u2203 studio in Kyiv, engaging with researchers studying environmental damage across Ukraine.

Two new audiovisual performances form the core of the project. Heavy Waters by undo despot, Zeynep Schilling, and alen hast + myk rudik traces the layered life of rivers as carriers of memory, sediment, and wartime violence. The Core by Khrystyna Kirik and Mark Bain creates an embodied listening encounter with land and infrastructures under siege. Together, these works seek new sensorial and affective ways of relating to ecocide, insisting that damaged environments remain living systems still speaking to us.


2204 (known as ∄ or K41) is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based community-driven cultural space for multidisciplinary explorations.