The performance **I TRUST YOU by Norpol** 

Director: Daniel Norback
Installation: Seimi Nørregaard
Sound design: Marina Karpova
Dramaturge: Jörn Burmeister
Technics and exhibition sound collage: Emil Vodder Kristensen
Artists: Sasha Skochilenko, Katya Muromtseva, 
Pavel Krisevich, Maria Morina, Marina Karpova

The performance **I TRUST YOU** starts after a stormy 
collaboration between director Daniel Norback and a 
Russian art activist. It has been years in the 
making but has suddenly collapsed. Out of the crises 
emerges a remarkable tale of trust.

**I TRUST YOU** takes you on a journey into a milieu of
Russian artists and activists who oppose the war in 
Ukraine and the regime in Russia. Through SMS 
correspondences, audio recordings, and letter exchanges 
with friends of imprisoned artists, the performance 
explores the courage needed to criticize the Russian rule. 
What gives the strength to continue when the 
repercussions are daunting, and who can be trusted?

Visual artist Seimi Nørregaard has created an 
installation that contains a reconstruction of an 
old St. Petersburg living room, which both serves 
as the performance scenography and an exhibition in 
its own right. The Russian cellist and noise artist 
Marina Karpova improvises the score for the performance.

**I TRUST YOU** is a documentary performance piece that 
explores the borderline between aesthetic statements 
and activism. Here, the crises of trust – the situation 
where people no longer trust or count on each other – 
is treated as something both deeply personal and 
urgently political.

10/11-25/11 2023
Dan Frie, Copenhagen

Photograph: Malle Madsen
Video: Helle Lyshøj

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