THEATRUM 2020 laboratory will open in Kazan on August 25

The THEATRUM 2020 laboratory is part of a joint project of the Theater Institute (educational project of the Golden Mask Festival) and the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation.

THEATRUM  has been  launched in 2019. The project is intended to update and draw the attention of the professional community, cultural managers and the general public to stage and performative practices in museums, galleries, reserves, as well as to installation and exhibition forms of the theater.

THEATRUM consists of three parts: a laboratory for researching ways to create museum and theater projects; a festival of regional and metropolitan projects already created at the intersection of museum and theater formats; business program.

The main goal of the laboratory is to contribute to the expansion of opportunities for both theatrical and museum affairs, and to create conditions for new expression in the framework of traditional activities. THEATRUM 2020 will provide participants with a unique opportunity to conceive and create their own projects based on the city's museums.

The laboratory is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The curators of the laboratory are artists Alexander Barmenkov and Vanya Bowden.

The laboratory participants were selected by the curators following an open call from more than 90 applications. Practitioners from Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Kirov, Perm, Kemerovo, Chelyabinsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow will come to Kazan, representing different areas of artistic activity and profession.

The THEATRUM 2020 project involves the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan, the Museum of E.A. Boratynsky, National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan, Museum-apartment of the composer Nazib Zhiganov, House-Museum of Academicians Arbuzov, House-Museum of V.I. Lenin. The Center for Contemporary Culture "Smena" became the headquarters of the laboratory.

The laboratory program is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. Within the framework of the theoretical block, the participants of the laboratory will listen to lectures on the tools and principles of working with a museum, exhibition or other public space. Lectures and seminars will be delivered by Kirill Mayevsky, Alexey Tregubov, Mikhail Kolchin, Elizaveta Spivakovskaya, Anton Khitrov, Daria Ionova, Elena Kovalskaya. The practical part of the laboratory makes it possible to interact with the space and the team of one of the museums in Kazan, as a result of which a new museum and theater project will be developed for a specific museum and its content - from formulating an idea to its defense. Throughout the course, the participants are consulted by a group of tutors, theater and contemporary art professionals with various specializations - director and playwright Andrei Stadnikov, artists Valentina Ostankovich and Shifra Kazhdan, researcher Daria Deryugina, producer Daria Verner.