Fellows


Ania Zorh
ifk Junior Fellow


Duration of fellowship
01. October 2024 bis 30. June 2025

Invisible work. Female work in Rural Ukraine during Collectivization



PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Invisible work. Productive and reproductive labor of women in rural areas in Ukraine before and after the collectivization in the USSR. How did collectivization influence individual and collective work of women, their cooperation, and property rights in rural Ukraine. Women, their bodies, powers and lives have been subjected to state control at various places and times throughout history. The 20th century and the Soviet Union were no exception. The period of collectivization in Ukraine (1928–1937) had an immense impact on the life of rural areas and all of its (not only human) inhabitants. The goal of this work is to research female labor, cooperation and self-organization before, during and after the establishment of kolkhoz, and to review phenomena of collectivization from a feminist point of view. Feminism has been understood in some areas as resistance to patriarchal capitalism. In this discussion, I examine feminism as the history of women’s resistance against socialism and communism.

 



CV

Ania Zorh is an artist and researcher. Born in Kyiv 1986. In 2009, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv with a diploma in painting. In 2017, she began her doctoral thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in the class of Prof. Elisabeth von Samsonow. She is a founder and board member of the feminist art associations »lapanterarosa« (2018) and »prolet.AIR« (2021), both based in Vienna. In her work, Ania Zorh deals with questions of reproductive and unpaid labor, individual and communal value systems, accumulation and distribution of land and capital, hierarchy and cooperation in feminist and ecological discourse.



Publications

mit Elizaveta Oliinyk, »traum.at/ enttäuschung/dis_appointment/ розчарування/ раз_очарование«, in: Ent_täuschung, zine zum klangfestival #remote 2020, Gallneukirchen 2020, S. 36–37.

»Between liminality and crisis«, in: Ella Felber, Stepan Nest, Sebastian Seib, Martin Sturz, Lisa Penz, Carla Veltman (Hg.), Crisis (= Blank Magazine #2), Wien 2020, S. 92–93.

»Studying in Akademie«, in: Iklim Dogan, Ella Felber, Paul Knopf, Sebastian Seib, Martin Sturz, Lisa Penz, Carla Veltman (Hg.), this is blank (= Blank Magazine #1), Wien 2019, S. 55.