The movement of Russian cosmism developed around the next to last turn of the century from the spirituality of 19^th century Russia. It combined ideas on physical immortality, waking the dead and trips to space with almost inexhaustible enthusiasm for science and technology. Oleg Soulimenko’s artistic project Immortality Day draws on such thought experiments as he creates a space within brut nordwest where we might begin to sense a possible new order of things. Old knowledge, different subjectivities, speaking bodies and gestures combine into a possible utopian community and cosmology.

Oleg Soulimenko is a Russian performance artist and choreographer who lives and works in Vienna. In 1990, he founded Saira Blanche Theatre and began to tour the world with provocative performances. In 2010, he devised the Austrian–Russian exchange project Music Here, Music There: Vienna–Moscow with brut Wien, presenting shows in both capitals. His performances were presented at different venues and international festivals, such as the Wiener Festwochen, brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, Performa 07 in New York, Theaterfestival Impulse in Germany, Kaaitheater in Brussels, Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, Baltic Circle in Helsinki, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and Kunsthalle Wien.