Between Two. Choosing the Womb

AKHE

Russia

---

This meditative-media laterna magica is a complex bacchanalia for the senses, assailing the eye, banishing reason and opening the viewer’s consciousness at a Beckettian slow pace. Two people on a quest walk a fine line between drama, film, painting and photography, and fight with space and matter. Despite its striking playfulness and comical desperation, it poses the powerful dramatic question: How far is man willing to go to see the light of salvation?

AKHE is one of the most notable artists’ collectives in Russia. They mockingly refer to their performances, which are chock-full of strange objects and quotations from art, as “Engineering Theatre”. In past years, several works were commissioned and co-productions were organised by acclaimed event organisers (including the Berliner Festspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg and FIDENA Bochum). UNIDRAM has presented nearly all the ensemble’s productions to date. After some years of absence, the group presents its epic performance cycle Between Two based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead for the first time outside St. Petersburg at the Potsdam festival.