Svetoprestavleniye Sergey Kalmykov
New Drama Festival, Meyerhold Center, Moscow, RU, 2018
A large-scale performative device in the form of a technological mystery.
An experimental performance-portal to a higher dimension—later identified as the Universal Composition. The work integrates theatre, performance, electrical and mechanical engineering, electronic and live music, and alternative scientific-technological inventions assembled from discarded materials—rusted metal, old motors, used cardboard boxes, branches, bones, video cameras, and obsolete televisions.
Among its elements were a six-legged, 300-kilogram walking refrigerator; a 200-square-meter cardboard light display composed of 900 cells; a quartet of robotized self-playing Kazakh instruments dombra; and electrical discharges generated by a supercharged Tesla coil.
The central aim of the experiment was to construct a device based on Sergey Kalmykov’s Eight Laws of Composition, designed to enable direct human contact with a dimension presumed to be omnipresent and demonstrably accessible to Kalmykov. Alexandra Morozova acted as the operator of this contact. Contact was established.
The project premiered in Almaty and was later presented as a headliner of the New Drama International Theatre Festival in Moscow, where it was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award.
Produced by ORTA.
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