Onset

Anna Engelhardt (1996, Rostov-on-Don) is an alias of a research-based media artist. Her practice examines war as a technology, looking into the hardware and software behind Russian invasions. Her film "Adversarial Infrastructure" (2020), an investigation of infrastructural warfare used by Russia in the Crimean annexation, was screened at Kyiv Biennial, Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Ars Electronica, Vancouver International Film Festival, DEMO Moving Image Festival. Her most recent film, "Onset" (2023), co-directed with Mark Cinkevich, uses an unholy alliance of medieval demonology, open-source intelligence and CGI animation to uncover the hidden life of Russian military outposts.

Mark Cinkevich (1994, Lahoysk) is a Belarus-born interdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Warsaw. Having received his master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Helsinki, he now pursues a PhD at the Department of Anthropology, University of Warsaw. In his practice, he is interested in critical, speculative and experimental aspects of art that operate at the intersection of fact and fiction. His work focuses on the post-Soviet infrastructural and social landscape, through which he explores, in particular, the concepts of nuclear colonialism, infrastructural colonialism, extractivism and monstrosity.