Cooperative presents its own version of an historical battle reenactment in 7 parts with a prologue and epilogue.
Concept: Reenactments are a popular pastime among patriotically-minded Russians today: the war against Napoleon in 1812 or the Battle of Stalingrad or something else. But Russian are too busy playing in a reconstruction, that they aren't noticed as they escalated into actual fighting.
"History repeats itself the first time as tragedy, the second as farce"
"... new commission to reenact the annexation of Crimea with tanks, sexy prosecutors, and Russian passports for all, offering the Cologne audience a trip down memory lane to the “bloodlands” of Russian imperialism..." (c)
An event in the frame of PLURIVERSALE III. Performance at the exhibition opening of the exhibition Phone Calls from the Cemetery and Other Stories.
The full video is available here. The libretto is here.
