mue is a lullaby for grieving a home, an archive-based performance. Just like us, Alik enters a room bigger than himself. A ghost is troubling him with stories hidden under his skin.
Since it full-scale invaded Ukraine, I never returned home to Russia. Instead, I have been looking for home within community: co – remembering, grieving, telling, listening, writing, collecting, sewing, recording, composing, building, assembling, editing, performing and sharing, traveling backwards; to find ourselves back here and now.
Together, we investigate into our family stories and politics of intimacy in the context of authoritarian state violence.
direction – Anastasiia Sharoshkina
performance – Absolem Loroch
sound and codirection – luz
cowriting – Vladislava Kuz & Lilia Raikhline
costumes – Lyly Letzer
production, voice & music – Andrey Sharoshkin
music – Sasha Steenhoudt
voice – Anastasiia Sharoshkina, luz, Vladislava Kuz, Micha Kirillov & Eren Aycik
images – Emma Reyes Leon