Interview with Alexander Sekatsky, associate professor at the Saint Petersburg University at the faculty of philosophy and political sciences. He is the Chair of social philosophy and the philosophy of history.

His special focus is: phenomenology, existentialism and social philosophy.

His publications and books include

• The ontology of life
• The danger of reality
• Applied Metaphysics
• Investigations
• The mission of the proletariat

Alexander Sekatsky is the recipient of the famous Andrej Bely prize, 2008

The interview was recorded by Barbara Imhof in Antarctica during the Antarctic Biennale Expedition in March 2017. The Antarctic Biennale with their Venice pavilion shows and the expedition was conceived by the Russian artist and commissioner Alexander Ponomarev and the expedition was curated by Nadim Samman.

Translations: Sofya Gavrilova, Olesya Kleymenova

Speakers: Barbara Imhof, Lucas Wisniewski

Production: Barbara Imhof

Music by Shama Rahman and Lou Sheppard