BIRCH 0
2022
Director, Visual Artist, DramaturgNadia Bakhshi
Composer
Anna Pospelova
Set / Costume designer
Vasilisa Kutuzova
Performers
Ivan Markov, Alexei Savin, Dilara Turyanskaya,
Ekaterina Palagina, Maria Deeva
Photos by Anna Todich
Composer
Anna Pospelova
Set / Costume designer
Vasilisa Kutuzova
Performers
Ivan Markov, Alexei Savin, Dilara Turyanskaya,
Ekaterina Palagina, Maria Deeva
Photos by Anna Todich
“Birch 0” consists of two parts: a performative installation and a participatory performance, played simultaneously as a cognition of the archaic and an attempt to transcode it.
Two stories, related to each other and unrelated at all: a site-specific performance - a mystery, directed and guided by three mermaids, where the audience participates in a ritual, completing a series of tasks in attempt to perceive the past in the other way, and the the experiment of the “stump scientist”, who learned the algorithm of data mining (“Birch”) and organized a secret laboratory to derive a new code through the preparation of balalaika, gusli, birches and mermaids to decode and transcode Russian imperial past and national idea.
Two stories, related to each other and unrelated at all: a site-specific performance - a mystery, directed and guided by three mermaids, where the audience participates in a ritual, completing a series of tasks in attempt to perceive the past in the other way, and the the experiment of the “stump scientist”, who learned the algorithm of data mining (“Birch”) and organized a secret laboratory to derive a new code through the preparation of balalaika, gusli, birches and mermaids to decode and transcode Russian imperial past and national idea.