Let's skip it. Let's keep it.
Lecture-performance, 60 min.
In collaboration with Jeanna Kolesova, Kira Shmyreva.
This lecture-performance is a creation of verbal, visual and movement divergences from russian state policy and linear culture of remembrance. The tactic of this policy is to exploit and correct the bodies and minds of indigenous, female, queer and disabled people.
We use documents, interviews, forgotten poetical texts and visual art to connect the hidden history of oppression with current tactics of human and non-human diversity erasure.
My contribution focuses on a document from my family archive—a record that chronicles my great-grandfather's property and reveals how it was progressively diminished, culminating in his family’s deportation in 1931. Using this document as a lens, I examine the historical events and political forces in Russia that led to this outcome, exploring the underlying mechanisms and their enduring relevance in the present day.
Presented in Berliner Ringtheater in June 2024.
