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Overview

  • 5 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning French
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • contemporary art
  • MA in Critical & Curatorial Studies
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Transversal researcher and passionate contemplator that implies critical approach towards reality.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking for unexpected experiences and always ready for the Biggest Adventure Ever -- and this is certainly something to share.

Interests

I am not the most outgoing person in the world, but I do love thoughtful interactions, long walks, nature and revolution as state of mind, exploring cultures far and wide.

  • poetry
  • folklore
  • contemporary art
  • education
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • philosophy
  • mountains
  • film photography
  • feminism
  • queer
  • antropology
  • anarchism
  • revolution
  • psychoanalysis
  • moomins
  • clay
  • deconstruction
  • shizoanalysis
  • margins

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: An Angel at my Table of Jane Campion, the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Gattaca, Art. Woman. Revolution, Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July, Patterson by Jim Jarmush, Mistress America. Directors: Harun Farocki, Bergman, Jarmush, Chris Marker, Miyadzaki, n-1
Music: Alice Coltrain, Autechre, Fleetwood Mac, Sigur Ros, Mum, Arcade Fire, Vivien Goldman, Throbbing Gristle and more
Books: scandinavian children literature (Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jannson, Rune Belsvik, Maria Parr etc), XX & XXI century philosophy (postsructuralism, speculative realism, psychoanalysis) like Lacan, Guattari, Deleuze, Villem Flusser, Foucaut, Ranciere and many many more), Henry David Thoreau "Life in Forest", Bjork Vik, Denis Osokin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am still leaving on this planet

What I Can Share with Hosts

conversations on art and politics/ feminism / cultural history of photography

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Russian Federation

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