Interrogating Imperial Pasts – Artistic and Academic Perspectives
A collaborative conversation between CHTO DELAT and REVENANT
One principal goal of the REVENANT research group is to comprehend how former empires spark debate and inspire emotion today. Artistic practices and media, including film, dance, and plastic arts, are potent resources for rethinking imperial legacies. Through films, texts, and multimedia exhibitions, the artistic collective CHTO DELAT has interrogated dominant memories of bygone empires, especially the Romanov Empire and the Soviet Union. We are honored to welcome CHTO DELAT to Rijeka and to compare our academic and artistic perspective on collective memory and imperial legacies. We will frame our discussion with clips from both REVENANT’s film, “The Revenant Project—Persons, Places, Things” (directed by Tomislav Žaja), and CHTO DELAT’s film “Palace Square 100 Years After – a Film-Lecture: 4 Seasons of Zombie.” Jeremy F. Walton, the group leader for REVENANT, will moderate an open-ended conversation among members of CHTO DELAT and REVENANT, including Dmitry Vilensky, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Kevin Kenjar, and Lilit Dabagian. Our event will take place at 19:00 on Friday, 25 September 2026 at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (MMSU, Zagrebačka 21, 51000, Rijeka). Please join us! Find out more details about the event at the official Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art webpage announcement.
The premiere to our documentary film will happen on Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 20:00 h, at the Art-kino Cinema, Krešimirova st. 2, Rijeka! More about the film and cinema here!
