BLAST ВЗРЫВ | ELINA KULIKOVA & DIMA EFREMOV

AS PART OF THE BELLUARD BOLLWERK FESTIVAL

Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian government has instrumentalised nuclear blackmail as a dominant political rhetoric, turning the anticipation of catastrophe into a daily condition. Nuclear threat operates not only as military strategy but as atmosphere – diffuse, persistent, embodied. Switzerland is the only country in Europe able to shelter its entire population in case of a nuclear strike. In their new site-specific creation, Elina Kulikova and Dima Efremov – Russian artists in exile – look at the inside of an operational bunker, where security becomes architecture: regulated, measured, materially enforced. BLAST examines how nuclear anxiety transcends geopolitics. The bunker becomes a dispositif where state power and private fear intersect, exposing the psychological and corporeal cost of living under the continuous possibility of annihilation. Text, concept, performance: Elina Kulikova & Dima Efremov

External view: Kamila Mamadnazarbekova

Production: Tina Hollard

Created thanks to Encouragement du Canton de Fribourg à la Culture

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