Grantees

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Marked Words: An Eccentric Dictionary of War	Oksana Maksymchuk
A part authorial, part curatorial exploration of how senses of temporality, mortality and responsibility adapt to a world undergoing extreme change
FACE: TO: FACE	Aleksandr Eltsin
An audio installation featuring recordings of people’s lives that last for the duration of the wartime curfew in force between 11pm and 5am each day
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Life During Wartime: An Audiovisual Experience	Yevhen Vorozheikin
Researching the audiovisual environment of war as a form of affective intrusion into the mind through personality centred ethnography
Language and War in Ukraine: The Vocabulary of Everyday Life in 2022	Halyna Matsyuk
A project to systematize lexical units that entered public life and trace the interaction of language and war through the changing semantics of words
Dictionary of War (Словник війни)	Ostap Slyvynsky
A book filled with short texts based on monologues from victims and witnesses of the Russian invasion with each entry focused on an important word
Testimony of Times	Yelizaveta Smith
Two filmmakers are documenting the war at a series of key moments for Ukraine’s cities, from refugees arriving in Lviv to the mass graves of Chernihiv
Kharkiv - My Favorite City	Yevhenii Telukha
Preserving the memories of Kharkiv’s citizens by charting their favourite places on an interactive digital map
Symbolic Space of Russian Military Aggression against Ukraine: From Symbols and Emblems to Symbolic and Ritual Practices	Yevhen Rachkov
Applying Barthesian and Baudrillardian theories of communication and symbol exchange to the slogans and emblems of the 2022 War.
Staying Within the War, a Topology of Experience	Iryna Kostyshyna
A series of essays engaging with the conceptual underpinnings of the war within a postcolonial intellectual framework.