Marina Vinnik - global dis:connect

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- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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research
- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
  Our research is structured around six key areas – absences, detours, interruptions, laboratories, cultural infrastructures and temporalities – which foster interdisciplinary dialogue without normative assumptions or claims of completeness.
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fellows
- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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outreach
- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
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  - gd:c blog
  - static
  - podcast
- global dis:connect publishes innovative interventions on dis:connectivity across a range of media, from the blog, which covers the latest news, research and art at gd:c, to static, a periodical containing the best work from within and beyond global dis:connect, in addition to traditional scholarly formats.
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Marina Vinnik

Marina is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in the intersections of gender studies, art history and feminist theory. Her recent project, Object-Oriented Ontology and Bauhaus, explored the integration of textiles in modernist architecture and their sensory and structural contributions. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Leipzig, and her dissertation focussed on the roles of women artists in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia. Marina’s current research highlights the in:visible networks and maps the practices of Russian-born feminist artists in exile and inside of Russia.

Marina joined global dis:connect as an artist fellow.

Group portrait in exile

In her project Group portrait in exile, Marina is crafting a narrative about feminist artists and activists with whom she worked in Russia in the 2010s, most of whom have been living in exile since 2022. She connects footage of the artists filmed in Moscow in 2018 with the new realities of their lives today, in which the cities and spaces around them have been transformed. Marina is also producing a video that contributes to broader understandings of the global feminist movement and its transformations, foregrounding the experiences of exile.

Have a look at Marina’s research poster about her project.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Marina and HERE for a list of her works.