SERGEANT KOSOV - PEACEMAKER
German Vinogradov
Concept: Theatricality and masquerade dealing with the theme of war in the result of which we may witness death of the main character
Sergeant Kosov: Peacemaker – this is a presentation of a conceptual personage, a warrior, a simpleton who lives in his own world which is still being shaped by grand cosmic forces. He innocently imitates aggression, appropriates some recognizable signs and gestures of war performing this in a ritualized, game-like manner (he plays football with bricks and uses musical instruments as dumbbells. He storms into somebody’s bathroom and imitates a shooting). This is a stage-adaptation, a masquerade. But our character follows his role till the end. Up till the moment where he in a game-like (or not?) manner is being executed himself. And in that moment it seems that dream intersects with reality. And we become witnesses of someone’s death, that suddenly became very close.