Written at the intersection of documentary practice, generative fiction, and experimental drama, Sixty Seconds to Swallow brings together the voices of Asia Pavlenko (writer and researcher), Olha Marusyn (artist and chore-ographer), and Vsevolod Kazarin (photographer and editor of Solomiya). Through a collective experimental writing process, the authors reflect on the ritual of Ukraine's daily minute of silence. They examine this shared practice of mourning not merely as a moment of remem brance, but as a nation-building "grief-ordering machine" - a profound, collective process of processing loss, reshaping power dynamics, and forging national identity amid war.