сhronofest
28.05—07.06.2026

Michael Craig Martin's Oak

Chronotope, Ilya Moschitsky

A loving father has lost a daughter: while returning home and listening to music in headphones, she was hit by a car. The father is sure: his deceased daughter has now become a tree on the side of that road.

Language:Russian with English subtitles

Love radio

Alexander Plotnikov, Maral Kasbarian, Manvel Sargsyan

The performance turns to this history to ask what a radio of solidarity might mean today.

Language:English with Armenian and Russian Subtitles

Magda Toffler or an Essay on Silence

Boris Nikitin

Author delves into the forgotten memories of the twentieth century in a biographical text that evokes the silence of the centuries, and in which personal and collective history, reflection and emotion, intersect.

Language:English with Armenian and Russian subtitles

Anna's Garden

Chronotope

A performance about the chaos of the world around us, about beauty and danger, crime, war, about the opportunity to choose one's place in the surrounding reality.

Language:English, Armenian, Russian

It's a Performance

Blue Pencil, Alexey Kiselev

The audience will watch a performance featuring a constantly changing, random person from Chatroulette—on the screen in real time.

Language:Russian

100 men

Hadas Neuman

“100 Men” is a hybrid video performance where cinema and stage intertwine in a personal exploration of memory, fatherhood, and absence.

Language:Hebrew, with English and Armenian subtitles

Gorky / Tolstoy. Reminiscences

Dmitriy Volkostrelov

What if Tolstoy were remembered by road dust and leaves, ash and poplar fluff? Things that usually remain outside our field of attention, objects we encounter every day without ever considering that they might possess memory — and the ability to articulate it.

Language:Russian, with Armenian and English subtitles

The Universe Out of Format

Chronotope

An evening of poetry for those who don’t like poetry evenings.

Language:Russian

Time to Smile

Chronotope

The performance is based on the monologue from Infrared by Ester Bol [Asya Voloshina] and is built around a single female monologue, voiced by three women from three different cultures, in three different languages.

Language:Armenian, English, Persian, Russian with English, Armenian and Russian subtitles

The Book of Lamentation

Alexander Plotnikov, Shahen Khandkaryan

Author reflects on Christian faith as a way of prosthetically replacing what has been lost: lost lands, a lost past, an utopia.

Language:Armenian, with Russian and English subtitles

I'm still here

Chronotope

I'm Still Here is a performance that the audience watches from the windows of the art gallery. Passers-by become actors and actors become passers-by.

Language:Armenian, Russian with English subtitles

doc flow

Artem Tomilov

"doc flow" immerses participants in the metamorphoses of art, in the free flow of being, which sometimes brings us to a point of pure experience with no possibility of immediate definition

Birch Sap

Anton Gusakovsky

Confronted with the military system, Anton chose to treat his service as a space for acquiring new bodily experience — often difficult and traumatic.

A performance in memory of Yuri Butusov

This will be an evening, a performance in which Yuri Nikolaevich reads the text of the play Mother by Esther Bol [Asya Voloshina]. And we — listen.

Language:Russian

Proposed circumstances

hosq × chronotope

A performance created as the result of a contemporary theatre workshop, conceived and led by hosq in collaboration with the theatre company Сhronotope

Language:Armenian with English and Russian subtitles

Ashtarak Fringe

Hrach's Art Space × chronofest

A fringe programme at the residency of Hrach's Art Space with Tsolak Mlké-Galstyan

doc flow

Artem Tomilov

"doc flow" immerses participants in the metamorphoses of art, in the free flow of being, which sometimes brings us to a point of pure experience with no possibility of immediate definition

It is a man’s, man’s, man’s world

Chronotope

A performance in which three actresses portray around twenty male characters, transforming their makeup and physicality in full view of the audience.

Language:Armenian, with Russian and English subtitles