Sven Vabar (b. 1977) has a bachelor’s (2005) and master’s degree (2007) in semiotics and cultural studies from the University of Tartu. He is currently a doctoral student of the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His thesis deals with any-spaces-whatever (a concept by Gilles Deleuze) in Estonian experimental art and literature in 2000s. Sven Vabar has edited the collections of articles on Mehis Heinsaar (2011) and by Estonian scholars of science fiction (2013), and also the multi-author collection of experimental prose Mitte-Tartu (‘Non-Tartu’, 2012). Vabar has published two prose collections Ribadeks tõmmatud linn. Jutud vms 2001-2014 (‘Shredded City. Stories from 2001-2014’, 2023) and 2013-2024 (2025, under the pseudonym Kivivalgel).
Publications
Articles in English
Valdur Mikita and the return of the real: In search of any-spaces-whatever in Estonian forests. – Sign Systems Studies, vol 53, no 1, 2025, pp 72-98.