Roman Tkachenko is a visual artist and researcher. Born in Rostov on Don, Russia, he lives and works in Amsterdam for over 10 years. His practice is based on investigating the political and social implications of the built environment. To do so, he looks closely at the vulnerabilities, mis/uses and il/legal re/developments of (institutional and/or domestic) architecture and public space. He calls himself an architectural dramaturg. He explores the soft borders between factual data and storytelling — how do they affect and inform one- another? He is interested in a narrative of the built environment which exists between reality and fiction, history and present. In the art of Roman, these stories can be deployed to establish a new meaningful relationship with our environment, to engage in playful resistance against the use and design of the built environment, or to employ our imagination for alternatives.
Roman is also part of a collective Timeis.capital. Which is an online platform for audio-visual research on self-organisation. It consists of interviews with people who self-organise and the 3D scans of the spaces from which they do this — project spaces, squats and living rooms. It’s aim is to collect practice-based knowledge and strategies that are produced in the ephemeral landscape of artist-run initiatives in order to strengthen the non-institutional art world and generate new energy for self-organisation.