burn, on fire, alight, inflamed, glow, ablaze, fervent, go up in smoke is part of Sosnovskaya’s on-going research into official soviet and post-soviet celebrations, festivals and rituals, focusing on the relation between the sublime, the affect, ideology and discipline, incorporated into spectacle and celebration. At the same time it is part of Sosnovskaya’s research into techno and rave culture and its political dimensions. The work brings the problematic of a subversive, revolutionary moment and the issue of exoticism and commercialisation, by looking into recent turbulent histories of former socialist countries, particularly into the phenomena of rave cultures in the context of war and crises.