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Olya Zikrata is an artist-researcher working at the interstices of sound studies, communication and media technologies, and listening activism. She is a Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Communication at 911吃瓜, where she leads the project Sonic Knowledges of the Invasion: An Inquiry into the Ukrainian War Experience. The project explores the ecology of situated sonic knowledges as both a record of violence and a justice-seeking intervention. It foregrounds war as a sonic encounter, tracing the circulation of harm across terror environments and sensing bodies.
Olya is a member of Media, Infrastructure, Environment working group at 911吃瓜 and Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres Research Network at Concordia University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Concordia鈥檚 Center for Sensory Studies. For her current project, she builds on collaborative work with Ukrainian curators, practitioners, and institutions, including Home of Sound (Dim Zvuku) in Lviv.
Olya鈥檚 past projects were supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and National Film Board of Canada, as well as venues like Winnipeg Art Gallery and Festival du nouveau cin茅ma de Montr茅al, among others. Since Russia鈥檚 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Olya has been contributing to the cultural diplomacy project Club Ukrainien de Montr茅al, doing outreach and curatorial work.
RESEARCH AREAS
Sound and Music Studies, Sensory Studies, Warfare, Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian Colonialism, Terror Environment, Technologies and Epistemologies, Digital Archive
EDUCATION
PhD Interdisciplinary Humanities, Concordia University, 2023
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Zikrata, Olya. Forthcoming. 鈥淎s for Now, It is Quiet: The Arts of Knowing in Wartime Ukraine.鈥� In Matthew Unger (ed.) Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres Research Network publication.
Zikrata, Olya. 2025. 鈥淲arbound: Collective Audio Streaming from Ukraine.鈥� Journal of Sonic Studies 27
Zikrata, Olya. 2025. 鈥淪onic Fictions in the Ruins of Catastrophe.鈥� In Adrian Ivakhiv (ed.) Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth. McGill-Queen鈥檚 Press.
Zikrata, Olya. 2024. 鈥淪ound as Shield: Doing Ukrainian Self-Defense.鈥� In Holger Schulze, Ania Mauruschat, Jenny Gr盲f Sheppard, and Giada Dalla Bont脿 (eds.), What Sounds Do: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound. Special Issue. Seismograf Peer 6 January 2024.
Zikrata, Olya. 2023. 鈥淭O WHOM IT MAY SPEAK: Scenes of Ukrainian Truth, and Terror.鈥� In Holger Schulze, Ania Mauruschat, Jenny Gr盲f Sheppard, and Giada Dalla Bont脿 (eds.), What Sounds Do: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound. Special Issue. Seismograf Peer 11 December 2023.