Spectacular Experiments on The Great Atomic Bombreflector​

Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, USA, 2024 

 

​​​A series of immersive performative events in the frame of a Planetary sci-fi project The Great Atomic Bombreflector​​

Guide-performer: Alexandra Morozova
Concept and directing: Rustem Begenov
Set-design: Rustem Begenov and Alexandr Bakanov
Music: Rustem Begenov
Creative producer: Alexandra Morozova

A series of immersive performative events designed by ORTA and conducted by ORTA in collaboration with CultureHub community at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club that tested the very first draft of the ritual part of the future device of the Great Atomic Bombreflector. The Experiments featured the Sacred Expositions, 3,000 square feet of aluminum foil and 10,000 artificial stones-genionites, unique Kazakh music instruments, collective practices of agitating everyone's Inner Genius, and Kazakh songs and Sergey Kalmykov's interworld texts performed by guide-performer Alexandra Morozova. Their successful completion marked the official start of the Planetary Program of The Great Atomic Bombreflector.


Articles

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Without Claims to Purity: The Great Atomic Bombreflector and Its Designers (en)

What does it mean to be a test subject for power, which, outside this concrete example, might actually name the catastrophic state of being a human-subject under state sovereignty generally? If the concept of a "state of emergency" can be applied to the Semipalatinsk nuclear tragedy, how can this trauma be turned into a "real" state of emergency, to borrow Walter Benjamin's encouragement to take up revolutionary activity? What does such a "real" state of emergency look like? Not a concrete emergency, but rather something that demonstrates the hidden paradigms of political space that are crucial to modernity.

In this essay I consider these questions through a discussion of a series of "Spectacular Experiments" that inspired the long-term artistic project Planetary Program of the Great Atomic Bombreflector, which was launched last spring at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. 

Nov 2024, Anna Gorskaya, e-flux Journal, Issue #149

 

The Great Atomic Bombreflector (ru)

В июне 2024 года в легендарном нью-йоркском театре La MaMa состоялись первые Спектакулярные Эксперименты арт-группы ORTA в рамках Планетарной Программы по созданию Великого Атомического Бомбоотражателя – большого международного научно-фантастического проекта, в котором Теория Новой Гениальности, разрабатываемая ORTA, применяется к ужасающему наследию атомных испытаний в Казахстане. В представленном тексте я описал предпосылки проекта и причины, по которым он возможен, его механизм и прогресс на сегодняшнюю дату – к 75-летию первого ядерного взрыва в Казахстане.

28 Sep 2024, Rustem Begenov, Vlast.kz

 

Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector (en)

In June, La MaMa ETC and CultureHub presented Kazakhstan's ORTA Collective for Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, with support from Goethe-Institut Kasachstan.

Jul 22, 2024, Maura Nguyen Donohue, CULTUREBOT

 

ORTA Collective: New York Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector (en)

Transdisciplinary art-group ORTA Collective (Alexandra Morozova, Rustem Begenov, Darya Jumelya, Alexandr Bakanov, Sabina Kuangaliyeva) from Almaty, Kazakhstan, CultureHub and LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Club present New York Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector.

5 Jun 2024, e-flux Agenda

 

New York Spectacular Experiments on The Great Atomic Bombreflector by ORTA Collective (en)

New York Spectacular Experiments on The Great Atomic Bombreflector by ORTA Collective are open performative experiments that will feature 30,000 artificial aluminium stones-genionites, unique Sci-Fi inventions, collective practices of agitating everyone's Inner Genius, and Kazakh songs and inter-world texts performed by Guide-Performer Alexandra Morozova.

5 Jun 2024, EASTEAST