AWC Journal
Issue 1
Entanglement of infrastructures: Civilian systems under the pressures of militarization
December 2024
How do war and violence transform infrastructures designed for civilian life? What happens when homes, roads, digital networks, and ecological systems are absorbed into military strategies? Can artistic and forensic methodologies reclaim infrastructures from war’s logic?
The first issue of AWC Journal explores how war reshapes infrastructures across physical, social, digital, and ecological domains, exposing their deep entanglement with power, control, and survival. It examines the blurred boundaries between civilian and military systems, revealing how logistics, communication networks, housing, and even environmental landscapes are weaponized in times of conflict. At the same time, it looks at creative strategies that challenge these militarized structures — acts of sabotage, counter-mapping, and speculative storytelling that expose, disrupt, and reclaim infrastructures from the logic of war.
By making visible the hidden forces that shape our surroundings, this issue invites readers to critically rethink infrastructures as sites of contestation. Through a transdisciplinary lens, AWC Journal seeks to unravel these urgent questions, situating infrastructures as both battlegrounds and spaces of potential futures.
Contributors: Anonymous, Natasha Chychasova, Antonia Dika, eeefff, Nazar Golianych, Liza Goncharenko, Daria Hetmanova, Sonya Isupova, Aigerim Kapar, Tatiana Kochubinska, Maryna Konieva, Oleksii Minko, Oleksandr Osipov, Hanna Paniutsich, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
Editor-in-Chief: Antonina Stebur (European Humanities University)
Co-Editor: Tatiana Kochubinska (independent curator)
Copy Editor: Alana Felton (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University)
Designer: Andrei Stseburaka
Translator: lisa deikun
CONTENT
Antonina Stebur
Editorial
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Can Colonialism Be Encoded?
Oleksii Minko
The Temporal Occupation of Ukrainian Housing by russia
Nazar Golianych
Economies of the Aftermath
Sonya Isupova
Revealing the Landscape:
Mapping Cyclical History of Colonial Infrastructure of the Kakhovka Dam
Aigerim Kapar
Memories of Lake Balkhash
Liza Goncharenko
The Weaponization of Ecosystems: Historical and Contemporary Parallels
Anonymous
Guide “Planned Outage for russian Military”
Hanna Paniutsich
The Alienation Zone: Radioactive Entanglements of Past and Present
Tatiana Kochubinska
System of Dependency: “Druzhba” project by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas
Interview
Maryna Konieva
Community, Science, and Art: Mutual Support in Times of War
Based on the photo series by Oleksandr Osipov
Antonia Dika
Military on the Coast in Times of Peace
Natasha Chychasova
Adaptive Violence: How War Transformed Institutions and Art
The publication has become possible due to the Nordic Media Grant Programme for Belarus (NMGPB) supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania.