Stream Cube

Live performance is a dialogue and exchange of invisible energy. Try watching a prerecorded concert or stand in the first row at a crowded venue. Feel the difference? Evgeny Goman and Torbjørn T. Sandnes will introduce Stream Cube as a way of opening up this topic.

Russia has experienced an artistic lockdown since March 2020, when all public events were closed. And even at the end of the year when almost everything else reopened, including restaurants, shopping malls, gyms and swimming pools, schools and universities, and at the time when political and business conferences can take place, performative culture remains restricted. 

All across the country artists continue to lose their jobs, struggle to make a living, and are making public statements to draw attention to the fact that the performing arts need a live audience just as much as the audience need their live performers. Culture becomes the sacrifice on the altar in the fight against COVID-19.

Bedroom concerts for many performers are not any way to make a living but they provide a means of keeping up competences and they help artists stay remembered. Stream Cube will provide a live international audience and a safe, central venue for Russian artists in Norway . The platform will teleport artists from Murmansk bedrooms to the centre of Kirkenes for short talks and live performances screened each day ‘to all four sides of the world’