The project "Blood and Sweat" is an open-ended (freely updated without time or other restrictions) series of short stories in collaboration, united by a secondary character - beet broth.

Each short story most often focuses on the protagonist's traumatic experience, but it can also be the result of research on a given topic or fiction.

The action itself has a reference to ritual, and can also be associated with vocal or physical and psychotherapeutic practices, statements on socio-political topics or the personal story of the protagonist.

This can also take any form, the main ones being performance art, performance art for a film camera, video documentation, video art, experimental cinema, sound art, music in general, actionism, etc.

The works are not direct art therapeutic acts, since they are not aimed at influencing the psycho-emotional state of a person, but are partially used as a technique and part of the project’s tools.

The main task is artistic presentation.

Stories and characters may be real or fictional.

The essence of the story is exaggerated, brought to the level of maximum hyperbolization, or, conversely, can be of a documentary nature.

Each short story has its own main character or protagonists, and for each of them the possibility of artistic expression is provided not only by the action in the frame, but also, for example, by artistic expression in text form. This could be the title of the performance or the accompanying poetic text.

The heroes of the short stories are co-authors and full participants in each other separately.

Beetroot broth is one of the main characters in every story. It is prepared with her own hands for each new performance and is directly related to women's practices and feminist art.

The broth has animistic origins. In this context, it is also noteworthy that beets are traditionally widely used in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian cuisine.

The author's personal allusion to the project is a reference to the films of Giallo.

Beetroot broth is not a direct translation of the association with blood, but has several other references, for example to Viennese Actionism. In this context, the broth takes the form of "bloodless" vegan blood.

Viennese Actionism is very important here in terms of the historical-cultural basis and point of reference for the entire project, as it is based in the field of trauma work, including post-traumatic war syndrome, the Cold War, various forms of abusive behavior and other psychological and physical aspects of violence.

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Text by Kirill Masheka:

"beet

Beetroot

Tree cutting

without documents.

There's blood on my hands.

Resolution:

the tree has no scientific or environmental value.

Civil helplessness.

I am a citizen of my country

I'm a citizen of the world

Civil position

Position

Write in first person

I.

I don't

I know what I'm doing when I commit crimes -

I thirst for evil and only evil.

Analogy with the absence of power and its artificial endowment with it

I am politically helpless.

Helpless.

Long time member.

Well, where are you?

leaky gypsies.

Dull eyes

interest of youth, old people and women.

Against the backdrop of politics

Let's rise through protest.

penetrates the brain of the average Belarusian,

Rusa.

political aesthetics of death

My people are dead

Your people are alive.

I can not any more.

I just fucking can't

Stupid cunt

Stupid cunt

People believe their king, but as long as torture is used in court against common sense, we will not allow the rich to violate the sanctity of the temple.

Activism

Head over heels

Aggression

Youth

The desire to change everything

Achieve justice

Apathy.

Stages of awareness of an incurable disease

Negation

...

Adoption.

The clash of interests of the individual and society

Guilt and Initiative

Motivation, victory of the loser,

Search for identity

A man shows a copy of himself

It's okay that I don't have bread

Nothing that I don't have

It's okay that I don't have you

It's okay that I have nothing.

VASNIGDENET"