Please join us at the Ethnography Lab on Friday, December 5th, 5-6 pm, for a presentation of a work in progress by Eugene Slonimerov. 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Room 330 or online.
The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi, Georgia as a non-human subject, a green heterotopia on the wrong side of the tracks, a staging ground for “uncanny elsewheres” in a city where green space is seen as scarce. A hill with an iconic past, unclear present and future: what does it see? “Where is Arsenali Hill?” is part of the research project An Anthropology of Gardens “Otherwise and Elsewhere”. Principal Investigator Paul Manning (Trent University, Canada); Collaborators Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Muehlfried (Ilia State University). The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (2022-2027).
Eugene Slonimerov holds an MA in Eurasian and European Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA in Theatre Production from Toronto Metropolitan University. He has taught Urban Studies at Caucasus University (Tbilisi) and War and Violence Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, speaks and writes about buildings, green space, and displaced people and holds the position of Research Chair with the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, an affordable housing advocate and operator in Toronto, Canada. He leads memory mapping workshops and walks through his ongoing project best_hole_in_fence and is a door person at one of Toronto’s underground techno clubs.
Ethnography Lab 