Mari Bastashevski: Facing secrecy

Mari Bastashevski's work deliberately blurs the line between art, research, writing and investigation. She focuses on issues of systemic failure and international conflict profiteering and the information vacuum that surrounds these issues.

Mari Bastashevski is an artist, researcher, a writer and an investigator. Her work blurs the line between these fields deliberately. She focuses on issues of systemic failure and international conflict profiteering and the information vacuum that surrounds these issues.

In these four interviews, which come with both a written and video interview, we cover her processes and practices in Modes of Operating, sorting through data dumps and finding the stories and context within them in From Gigabytes to Stories, _her use of photography in her work in _Observe the Unobservable and lastly her dissatisfaction with the results of her work but enjoying the labour nonetheless in "Enjoy the Labour, Never the Fruits."