[зек - Russian convict] is a series of events that will unfold in Stuttgart between May 2024 and April 2025. The series commemorates the fate of Masha Kalesnikava, Maxim Znak and other political prisoners. Musical reflections of texts written in prison form a thread from prisoners to freedom, self-determined communication and survival. zek actively stands in the way of forgetting and nourishes the public resonance space of memory, which can be their only possible protection.
zek #1 opens the series with a participatory installation by Carlos Gutiérrez and music by Nikola Lutz as well as improvisations by the trio encuentros musicales. zek is part of the event series black box_blank page.
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Carlos Gutiérrez [traditional bolivian instruments] Tatiana López [traditional bolivian instruments] Nikola Lutz [electronics, saxophone]