Author: Daniel Erlacher
Elevate Festival invited Irina Nalis, who is part of the Faces of We are Europe, to speak during their discourse programme earlier this year. This interview has been conducted during the event, which happened to take place on the weekend before the Austrian lockdown. It comes with a short statement sent 8 months after the interview, regarding the current situation of humanity in times of a global pandemic.
As the world is facing one of its most serious crises in recent history, her words — namely the necessity to work on knowing ourselves better and reconnect with everything that exists around us — only make more sense.
Irina Nalis in October 2020:
“Solve everything at once” — a lot of talk in the last months around Covid-19 revolved around an ostensible surprise voiced by some politicians, policy makers and media about how this virus is able to highlight so many societal crises of our times at once. The burning glass metaphor is and was used quite heavily. However, to many of us it was neither a surprise nor good news as it has been understood for quite some time: the interrelations and interdependenc...