Die sowjetische Vergangenheit ist nicht vergangen

A conversation on the occasion of “Museum of Uncounted Voices”

With Marina Davydova, Valery Tscheplanowa, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat) and Chulpan Khamatova. Moderation: Vladimir Balzer. 

 

  • Dialogue
German /  with simultaneous translation /  Russian / 
Photograph of an exhibition situation. A person is in a room with partition walls from the 1920s. Lettering in Cyrillic and Hebrew is projected onto these. The emblem of the Soviet Union with hammer and sickle in a wreath of corn and the number "23 70000" and the lettering "Soviet Union" are projected between them.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre on 30 December 1922. 100 years later, the critic, curator, and theatre maker Marina Davydova has conceptualised the “Museum of Uncounted Voices”. She shows how the borders of the national republics within the USSR came into being, why those borders today have proved to be time bombs, and to what extent the cultures of the countries that once made up the Soviet Union have always differed. As an open opponent of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Marina Davydova lives in exile in Berlin. After the celebrated premiere at the Wiener Festwochen, the HAU commissioned work is shown for the first time in Berlin. On the occasion of the Berlin premiere, Davydova, the actress Valery Tscheplanowa, Dmitry Vilensky from the collective Chto Delat and Chulpan Khamatova discuss the present of the Soviet past under the moderation of Vladimir Balzer. 

Dates

Past
Fri 29.9.2023, 19:30 / HAU2

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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