Belarusian culture exists not only in Belarus. A lots of Belarusian authors today live outside the country. Many of them come here often, but they are known for his projects better ‘there’. However, each of them help to build of our common system of Belarusian culture.

Who are they? What do they live about and what places of Minsk remember?

Heroes of the issue ‘pARTisan’ #24: Andrei Dureika, Vicka Mitrichenko, Dmitri Plax, Irina Anufrieva, Alexander Komarov, Andrei Liankevich, Valzhyna Mort, Uladzimer Łappo, Lena Prents etc.

‘35 grams is the weight of a passport, non-essential, it would seem a thing. But on the emotional, spiritual state, which, in particular, affects the physical well-being, it is very much… But ‘35 Grams’ is this project is not about how Belarusians or eastern people find it difficult to travel.

Rather, the objective was to show that my time as an artist and plan these bureaucracies, the countries that sign the agreement on the identity and nationality…’

From the interview of Alexander Komarov

Also in this issue :

Interview with Uladzimir Parfianok (a person of the issue), the exhibition ‘Europe (to the power of) n’ rreview, Tania Siacko about Minsk wave of a documentary theatre, Pavał Sviardlou about the history of the Belarusian music video making, interviews with Moldovan artist Tatiana Fiodorova, translations of Vaclav Havel’s and Samuel Beckett’s texts and others.

Look for in-store ‘Y’ and the bookstore ‘LohvinaU’ (Independence Avenue, 37a , Minsk)!