Elena Rabkina is  an interdisciplinary artist who works with visual and participatory art, and loves using the essence of play to explore and talk about serious topics. Her work often responds to current events and focuses around the themes of migration, social justice and de-anthropocentrism. She strongly supports the idea that humans are not the center of everything and invites people to imagine what reality looks like when we include the perspectives of other beings, objects, and forces. Elena wants to create experiences that remind us we are not alone here, that we share this world with many forms of life and matter and that they have their own stories to tell. 

On board Godzilla Elena will work on her project Sea Worries One, following her childhood game and creating an artistic collaboration with the sea. Elena will bring trays, paper and ink, and use the boat’s movement driven by the sea to roll ink-covered metal balls across paper, this way allowing the sea to express its worries. She will also collect seaweed and other organic materials to make natural ink, allowing the sea not only to shape the artwork but to form it physically. 

“My relationship with the Baltic Sea is still quite new, but it’s one I would really like to deepen. I grew up in Belarus, where we have no sea, yet the sea has always fascinated me and feels to me pretty much alive, with its own character and strong presence.”