Birch √0

Two speculative performances, played simultaneously in the Birch Grove and the Assembly Hall, are a cognition of the archaic and an attempt to transcode it. Two stories, related to each other and unrelated at all: a site-specific performance - a mystery, directed and guided by three mermaids, where the audience participates in a ritual, completing a series of tasks in attempt to perceive the past in the other way, and the the experiment of the "stump scientist," who learned the algorithm of data mining ("Birch") and organized a secret laboratory to derive a new code through the preparation of balalaika, gusli, birches and mermaids to decode and transcode Russian imperial past and national idea.