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Letters Home. Acedia

Performance|by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo) with music by Dmitry Vlasik

  • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Price free entrance

Performance Acedia square © aliveduo

Performance Acedia 2300x1000 © aliveduo

Acedia (Latin for "apathy" or "lethargy") reflects the emotional state of the artists following their forced departure, as well as the general mood in Russian society in recent years.
Over the course of 49 minutes - the time it takes to develop 35mm positive film - the artists recreate the daily actions they performed in their apartment in St. Petersburg. These seemingly mundane gestures, based on familiar micro-trajectories, shape and define our lives. Using photo and video materials, repetitive movements, and a floor plan of their apartment, the artists invite the audience to reconstruct their final hours in Russia together.

Artists

aliveduo (Alena Starostina & Ivan Nikolaev)

aliveduo is the collaborative artistic partnership of Alena Starostina and Ivan Nikolaev, focusing on performative and visual art.
In their projects, they work with the concept of “time” in performative practice and are interested in searching for a non-standard approach to the chosen material. 
Combining their extensive backgrounds in acting, directing, and performance, they create experimental works that explore the intersections of theater, modern art, and multimedia.
 

Dmitry Vlasik

Dmitry Vlasik was born in 1981. He completed Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a percussionist and performed since then numerous world and Russian premiers of works by Xenakis, Stockhausen, Feldman, Cardew, Cage, Billone, Ferneyhough, Sysoev, Khubeev, Gorlinsky, etc. Vlasik composed and designed music as well as sound for more than 45 spectacles in Russia, Latvia, Germany, Austria, France, Spain. He also scored 5 films. Since 2022 he lives in Paris, France.

Agenda

  • GroovRoots

    Happening & Procession | with ZIP Group and Serhiy Demchuk

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • The Cradle (Installation's Activation)

    Installation | by ZIP Group

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Opening of the festival

    Opening event |

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Run Fast, Bite Hard

    Performance | by Elisabete Finger | only with registration

    • ACUD Theater, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Mutus

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo)

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Zeyo Mann

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Radio Jaguar

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Amado León

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • All my Best Deaths

    Performance | by Dante Buu

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • From Places to Traces

    Talking event | with Carmen Herold, Reihaneh Mehrad, Maik Müller, Nicole Vögele, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Birds in the Skies, Mycelium Under the Ground

    Talking event | with Ma Thida, Ali Abdollahi and Aya Sammani, moderated by Kholoud Bidak

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Acedia

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo) with music by Dmitry Vlasik

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Sarvenaz Mostofey

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • {un}Settled: A body between feathers

    Music Performance | by Pure

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Ludmila Pogodina

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Pure

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Flying Backward

    Film Screening | by Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Memory Jars

    Workshop & Performance | by Sujatro Ghosh

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • Film Screening & Extended Q&A

    Film Screening & Q&A | with Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Parham Alizadeh's trio JazzAvaa

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Soheil Soheili

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

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