‘A celebration of the impossible’ – a review of the Baltic Circle theatre festival by Aleksandra Dunaeva, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen – is now available on TINFO.
“For the last seven years, before the war, I made socially engaged art in Russia. We built utopias, an alternative space of freedom and equality in conditions of Putin’s thickening authoritarianism. The war showed that art won’t stop people who have access to the red button. The experience of Yellowcake allowed me to understand that there are too few utopias today. Art has the power and instruments to become a real facilitator between civil society and powerful institutions in the battle for a fairer future. As a minimum, it can give the experience of revealing oneself as an actor in history, and the desire to make that experience last.”
Image: Venus by Janina Rajakangas with a working group. Baltic Circle, 2022. Photo by Tani Simberg.
