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24.01.2021
Theo Ilichenko is a visual artist from Russia, currently living in Berlin. In their hybrid video and performance practice and essayistic documentary forms they explore film, photo portraiture, and storytelling as an affective medium of care, engaged witnessing and cultural memory, and art as a grassroots survival and solidarity technology.
Theo’s work is motivated by the experiences of loss and gendered violence; politics and ethics of visual representation; self-organised communities and forms of togetherness; and grotesque, the erotic and celebration as a form of resistance.
A large part of their artistic work and personal commitment as an aspiring “funeral stripper”* in apprenticeship (a grief care worker for queer communities) is dedicated to mourning practices in the queer communities and to mutually learning and sharing unique ways of transforming social violence.
Website: http://www.tvilichenko.com/
ARCHIVE
Performance: 25.06.2020, 21:30
Doors open at 20:00