Aleksei Borisionok is a 2022–2023 ArtsLink International Fellow.

Digital Residency: October–November 2022
New York City residency: October–November 2023

Borisionok’s fellowship project investigates notions of temporalities of post-socialism, or how how time is stretched, deformed and queered in the unsettled political configuration that came after the collapse of state socialisms. This research is focused on museums, libraries and prisons, social movements and strikes and the disciplinary and emancipatory logics of education and self-organization. In the context of massive social and labor unrest in Belarus since 2020, these multiple spaces and temporalities reveal tensions in the ways how histories are cemented in museum displays, how subjects are disciplined through the apparatus of surveillance and incarceration, and how narrations of post-socialism are re-written, dismissed or weaponized.

Aleksei Borisionok is a curator, writer, and organizer currently based in Minsk, Belarus, and Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the artistic-research group Problem Collective and the Work Hard! Play Hard! working group. Alexei focuses on art and politics in Eastern Europe during the socialist and post-socialist periods. His work has been published in various magazines, catalogues, and online platforms including L’Internationale Online, Partisan, Moscow Art Magazine, Springerin, Hjärnstorm, Paletten, and syg.ma, among many others. Aleksei has written and curated exhibitions on education and unlearning, workers’ movements and strikes, the history of artistic practices, museum displays, and social movements. His current research investigates the temporalities of post-socialism. Borisionok is an ArtsLink International Fellow at the Vera List Center.