„Archaeology of Progress. Elista“ by Vika Sarangova Victoria Sarangova is a multimedia artist from Kalmykia, Russia, currently based in Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martins London and Kunst in Context at UdK, Berlin. Through media of sound, documentary film, installation, hand embroidery, radio art and performance - among others - her practice aims to elaborate her personal experience of in-between position through the prism of the present cultural and political context. Memory and affects, identity, and ideas of 'progress' are among the topics she currently engages with. ------- Victoria Sarangova — Archaeology of Progress. Elista (2023) ------- „Archaeology of Progress. Elista“ is the third part of the series of the site specific sound works focusing on the ideas of progress and their colonial nature. This part of the project is the most personal as it is rooted in the site of Victoria's birthplace and involves affects, promises, memories, tensions and flips associated with spatiality and resonated in artist's body.