Timothy Williams teaches at the English Faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and translates books and articles from Polish and Russian, including essays by philosophers Oksana Timofeeva and Merab Mamardashvili and texts for the Chto Delat School of Engaged Art and artist Natalia “Gluklya” Pershina-Yakimanskaya. He wrote his Ph.D thesis at Columbia University (2015) on philosophical motifs in the poetry of Blok and Gumilyov. He lives with his wife, artist Joanna Arent-Williams, in Poznań.
The entangled artistic and activist contexts of these drawings reveal the complex political regime under which artists are working in Russia today.
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
