Director Ilya Sha­galov On Contemporary Theatre in Technology-Driven Society

Episode Summary:

'Art doesn’t owe you anything’, says our today’s guest speaker Ilya Shagalov, ‘It doesn’t have goals or objectives, just like coronavirus”. One of Russia’s most talented and emerging video artists and theatre directors, student of Kyril Serebrennikov, and member of Russia’s leading avant-guard theatre Gogol Centre, Shagalov, who finds himself in Berlin during the pandemic speaks to us about his deeply inspiring creation entitled Fairies, which was released just for a day in the mids of national lockdowns, with its existential yet romantic reaction to our crisis-ridden moment and the only universal solution - to love. In today’s episode Shagalov will talk us through the new forms of online theatre, the depth in the work of Bill Viola, the provocative manner of Frank Castorf’s theatre making, the aesthetics o ...