Pasternak. The Unleashed Voice

It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.

It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.

It – this voice of mine – floats out of the murk on a callous leash...
Boris Pasternak

The joint project of the Horizons D programme and the Peredelkino Art Centre is dedicated to one of the most famous Peredelkino residents, poet and writer Boris Pasternak. The two-part composition, consisting of a prologue and a poetic one-woman show, allows us to trace the relationship between the poet's life and work – how Pasternak changed and how the language of his poems followed.

The audio prologue, created by Egor Zaitsev, a resident of the Peredelkino Art Centre, based on Pasternak's letters, becomes the entry point to the production. The drama unfolds in the field of Boris Pasternak's imaginary telephone conversations, which he conducted or could have conducted during his stay in the Urals and Peredelkino.

In the stage part of the project, director Arseny Meshcheryakov transforms Pasternak's poetic texts from different periods into a unified score, finding unexpected similarities and bringing contradictions closer together, exploring the melody of words and the metamorphosis of feelings revealed in them. For the actress of the Brusnikin Workshop Sofia Petrova, poems become a vocal and dramatic part, forming a monolithic sound structure in interaction with the electronic and noise environment created by Ivan Yerofeyev. The artistic framework of the stage action is a video installation by Mikhail Zaikanov.

 Peredelkino is a legendary village for writers that appeared near Moscow in the 1930s. Outstanding Russian literary workers of the twentieth century lived and worked here. Today, Peredelkino is a vibrant creative centre with residences, a large public programme, and spaces for work and recreation.

The Choral Promenade is a performative experience of listening to choral music in the joint movement of the audience and performers through the halls of the Perm State Art Gallery new building opened in 2026. The promenades are routed through the exhibition spaces: there, the works of world musical culture enter into a dialogue with canvases from collections of Western European and Russian paintings of the 16th–20th centuries. The audience moves from hall to hall, following the choir. The concert presupposes a willingness to watch, listen, and at the same time move forward — towards the Perm wooden gods, to which each route of the promenade leads.