BETWEEN HERE AND THERE
In her durational performances, Katrin Nenasheva inhabits states of alterity and disempowerment and inserts them into the rhythms of everyday life and control in Moscow’s urban landscapes and public imaginaries. Interested in the possibilities of bodily transformation and the potential of one being many, she uses her body as a site of knowledge and as a portal to connect different dimensions of time and space.
Between Here and There is the third in a series of performative exercises in political corpofiction. These performances last for 21 days – the time humans take to develop a habit – or longer. Here, the artist becomes a public avatar for those subjectivities kept behind walls in the institutions of post-Soviet biopolitics.
CARGO 300
There is a body in this cage. A body that was tortured. Torture in Russia happens every day, behind the closed doors of prisons, police stations, psychoneurological institutions, psychiatric hospitals. When I was tortured, I felt like I was in a cage—alone, powerless, lost, compressed. I was absolutely helpless, and most importantly—invisible. There are hundreds of such "invisible" people in Russia. After the trauma of torture it is very difficult to fit into reality, torture becomes a burden that you carry inside yourself, on yourself, with yourself. Right now, at this moment and second in Russia someone is being tortured.
