LUSCINIA (2025) out now! ✦
LUSCINIA is an audiovisual performance created by visual artist Olesya Vashchenko
@stololesya and composer Simona Markevich
@simulya__kr
The piece explores the human capacity to engage in dialogue with nature, attempting to recreate its fragile harmony through sound, light, and space. Inspired by biomimicry principles, LUSCINIA unfolds like a living ecosystem, where each element transforms and responds to the other.
Alongside the 40-minute live premiere at Praktika Theatre
@praktika_friends (April 2025), a short version was created as a standalone videoart piece.
This 6-minute format required a complete reimagining of the musical structure and intricate editing work, blending cinematic language with the raw energy of a live performance.
Full version linked in bio 🔗
Director, visual artist, set & costume designer — Olesya Vashchenko
@stololesya
Composer, co-author, vocal performer — Simona Markevich
@simulya__kr
Sound engineer — Danila Botyaev
@keikatunn
Thunder sheet, waterphone — Georgiy Ibragimov
@gosha.ibragimov
DIY electroacoustic Instrument «Lacrima» — Sergei Skurtu
@sskurtu_
Synthesizers — Dmitriy Nenadyshin
@ptichkasoe
DOP — Alexey Gorlachev
@gorlacheview
1st Assistant director, DOP assistant — Maxim Bondarenko
@vimesttok
Gaffer — Viktor Bahmet
@vector3k13
Light assistants — Alexandr Udalov
@welesgod , Nikita
Chigishov
@phenibrood
Focus puller — Bella Budnitsky
@bellisimobudnitsky
Colorist — Kirill Chekmakovsky
@chekmaque.color
Camera assistant — Pavel Goliaev
Makeup artist - Ksenia llyina
@_sunstroke
Coat&pants designer —
@elizaveta_zimovets
Production assistants — Arina Vasilieva
@novydryg , Nikolay
Pryazhentsev
@kolyapryazhentsev , Alina Ulbasheva
@alinaliiiiiiii , Alexandra Yakamseva
@ykmsv
Backstage photographer - Anton Khaev
@kadji_kun
Praktika theatre technical team - Stanislav Gunko (sound), Vladislav Sukhorukov (light)
Branding by dearest
@llapleiade
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