PAIN OPERA by Vsevolod Lisovsky / Brain-Computer-Interface & 8 Performers

Name: PAIN OPERA by Vsevolod Lisovsky / Brain-Computer-Interface & 8 Performers
Start: 2025-03-26T20:00:00+01:00
Location: ACUD Theater

Schedule

Wed, 26 Mar, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

ACUD Theater | Berlin, BE

IMPORTANT:
The play starts at 8pm [ 20:00 ] sharp.
So come on time, preferably a little earlier . . .
after the play has started, there is no more admission to the Acud Theater ! In the past, this was frustrating for all those who came too late .
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PAIN OPERA
"The aim of this project is to explore pain as a means of communication. Throughout the entire performance, the person on stage will be hurt. Music will be born from his pain with the help of a neural interface. The vocalists will sing the thoughts and feelings of the people involved in the process. : the one who hurts, the one who is hurt, the one who observes it all.. We all live in an empirical bubble that separates us from the ideal world, the world of true reality. It is possible that pain is the signal that the outside world sends us. But is it possible to decipher it? We will try to get an answer to these questions. But will we succeed?" Vsevolod Lisovsky
performer :
2 technicians: Nicolay Golikov, Antanas Jacinevicius
3 singers: Alexandra Pyatkova, Roman Stolyar, Ekaterina Podlesnaia
3 people: Vsevolod, Lisovsky, Uwe Moellhusen Julia Ahlert
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Vsevolod Lisovsky
was born in 1967. Theater director and performer (prefers to call himself Commissar). He claims that in his works he tries to create not an "image" but an "event" that affects reality. Due to a conflict with the authorities, he was forced to leave Russia. now he lives in Germany.
Julia Ahlert,
born 1987 in Irkutsk, graduate of the Leipzig Literature Institute,
writer, her essay “#kryptofiktion” was read at the 4 + 1 Treffen junger Autoren at Schauspiel Leipzig and was nominated for the Edit Essay Prize, both in 2020. She is currently preparing the publication of her trilogy.

Uwe Moellhusen [Berlin],
visual, sound, action and performance artist, composer and, on the side, organizer of exhibitions, events and performance festivals. International media activities and strategies that aim to subvert norms and trends in art.
Alexandra Pyatkova
is a Berlin-based actress, artist, opera singer with a vocal range of 3.5 octaves, feminist musician, performer and poet. She studied opera singing at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf and performed for several years as a classical singer with a string quintet. As a theater actress, she performed for many years in Moscow and Berlin. As a film actress, she received the German Short Film Award for the film “Hostel”, in which she played the leading role and wrote the screenplay.
In 2019, she began her career as an experimental opera singer, songwriter and performer. She performs under the name Salome von Berlin.
Ekaterina Podlesnaia
a professional actress since 2014. She has played more than 30 diverse roles in the theaters of Tyumen and Krasnoyarsk. She has worked with directors such as Roman Feodori, Alexander Andriyashkin, Daniil Chashin, Alexander Bargman, Nikita Betekhtin, Maxim Kalsin, and others. Participant in the festivals "Golden Mask," "Novosibirsk Transit," and "Territory." Winner of the "Hope of the Stage" award for her role as Juliet in the play "Romeo & Juliet." She teaches acting to children and has experience as a makeup artist. She loves cats, delicious food, and popular science literature.
Roman Stolyar
Berlin-based Russian composer and pianist Roman Stolyar is often described as one of the key figures in Russian improvised music. He has performed in 27 countries and collaborated with a number of internationally renowned improvisers, including Dominic Duval, William Parker, Vinny Golya, Oliver Lake, Susan Allen, Thomas Buckner, Weasel Walter, Assif Tsahar, Martin Kuchen, Glen Hall and many others. His improvisation workshops have earned him an international reputation and have led to numerous invitations to design and conduct workshops for organizations and universities around the world, including the University of Michigan, Mannes College NY, California Institute of the Arts, Musikakademie Basel, Chateu d'Oex Music School in Switzerland, Frescobaldi State Conservatory in Ferrara, Italy, and Versailles Conservatory, France. He is the author of the first Russian book on the teaching of free improvisation.
In 2022, Roman Stolyar was blacklisted by the Russian Ministry of Culture for his anti-war activities and had to flee Russia. He currently lives and works in Berlin and collaborates with numerous Berlin-based musicians. Together with the Argentinian saxophonist Camila Nebbia, he is co-founder of the IDENTITIES Quintet, which brings together Berlin-based improvisers from different nations.
Antanas Jacinevicius
is a media- and sound- artist. Based in Berlin, Germany.
He explores political processes, collective memory, and the traumatic past, working with installations, sound, and digital art. Educated in Rodchenko Art School. As a musician, Antanas regularly performs in various countries. His music is the intersection of noise, techno, and electroacoustics, combining a sense of fragility and anxiety. He prefers to characterize his compositions as suspense. Antanas is a participant in many exhibitions and residencies.
Nikolay Golikov
is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and engineer whose work explores the interplay between humans, nature, and technology. His performances and installations merge sound art, multimedia, and biometrics, creating immersive experiences that challenge perceptions of organic and technological fusion.
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ACUD THEATER
Veteranenstrasse 21
10119 Berlin
tickets:
https://www.acud-theater.de/programm/5593-pain-opera.html