ERNST IM ERSTEN
performance, HD video, colour, sound, 23 min
In collaboration with Cyril Tuschi and Theater.doc (Moscow), Talgat Batalov, Igor Bychkov, Alexey Maslodudov, Olga Nikitina, Tatiana Parshina, Roman Sinitsyn, Dmitry Sobolev, Alexey Yudnikov
“Ernst im Ersten” is an artistic and social experiment in collaboration with the actors and directors of Theater.doc, a state-critical documentary theater in Moscow engaged in human rights activism, that combines film, theater and television. Within the collaboration the actors - themselves participants in the current social processes in Russia - develop a performance on social and political topics in a talk show format and setting. Thereby we wanted to approach what, sadly, became a utopia in the last decade in Russia - freedom of the press and speech and equal access to the mass media and state television of all social groups and political opposition - and, by using theatrical and filmic means, to at least partially realise what became impossible in reality: a direct cultural and political dialogue between different social groups. The project is also an experiment in self-organisation within a theater-filmic laboratory process.
© Dmitry Sobolev
© Dmitry Sobolev