BRUTALLY HONEST
Exploring misinformation in relation to Putin’s war on Ukraine
An MA Narrative Environments (MANE) radio broadcast in solidarity with Ukraine featuring conversation, music and sounds from Eastern Europe and its diaspora.
The broadcast streamed live 28 February 2022 as an emergent response to war actions that started in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Set in motion by Central Saint Martins MANE students Margo Lazarenkova (Minsk-born) and Edit Kruk (Moscow-born), BRUTALLY HONEST connects the voices of the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian diasporas in Europe with the global creative community. The show takes a critical perspective on mainstream media narratives and is punctuated with interviews conducted online, live at CSM and on-site at London’s Barbican Estate.
Brutally Honest, 2022
Live broadcast in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Student-led production
__technical operations, programming, communications
Photos Yichi Duan
Production and Programming
Margo Lazarenkova, Edit Kruk, Jessica Sammut,
Special Thanks
Charles Lambert, Rey Wauer, Alexander Collinson, Chris Mademtzis, Mariella Hilton and Lucy McCullough.
Poster
Margo Lazarenkova
Guests
Ben Ditto (Creative Director); Diana Olifirova (Ukrainian filmmaker based in London), Liza Mikhaleva (Moscaow-based feminist activist and DJ), Alina Rozanova (Ukrainian startup founder and conference organiser based in Georgia), Anna Holub (LCC student, Public Relations), Dana and Denisa (Russian and Romanian students from Camberwell College of Art), Anastasiya Katliarskaya and Ilya Kotlarsky (Belarusian students from Architectural Association School of Architecture). Accompanied by DJ-set by Zlata Mechetina.