Risk Lab is a series of performances about risk in art and artists at risk that theatre director Ada Mukhina (based in Berlin) started in 2018 in London. For each performance of the series, Ada invites a new risk-taking artist from a different context to join her online in a theatre.

Elina joined her and the audience in Washington DC online from Tbilisi, Georgia when she left Moscow in March 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Together two artists took the audience on the journey dedicated to reflection on the war in Ukraine from:

— protest methods of Feminist Antiwar Resistance, an arrest of a peaceful artist & activist Sasha Skochilenko in St.Petersburg, current political emigration from Russia whose numbers vary from 300 000 to 3 Mio.

— to the US-Mexican border where hundreds of Ukrainian, as well as Russian citizens, are waiting to apply for asylum.

— and asked the audience what they are ready to risk to change their position from consumers of online suffering to active allies.

Our performance was part of The Gathering, organized by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics.

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