About the Project:
Soviefy is a verb/noun neologism for the audio-visual performance activity practiced by Daniil Cherkasskiy and Galina Shevchenko, that simulates nostalgia for non-existent yet vaguely recognizable, Soviet-rooted aesthetics through radical collaborative improvisation. We sing & animate sequences of forgotten soviet songs, too obscure or ideological to be remembered in the present day in a manner that fuses contemporary multi-media performative modes with meticulously honed elements and techniques specific to the Soviet school of state-sponsored art production. We indulge in, re-contextualize, experiment with & question utopias.