Emigration to the Future
An interdisciplinary festival of utopias · Berlin · 7–9 August 2026
This is our official Telegram. Here's the whole idea.
You can't act in the present if you can't picture the future. So instead of emigrating to another country, we're emigrating to the future — and projecting it back onto the real city of Berlin. The move is tactical: it's far easier to attack the present from the future than the other way around. For three days we build positive versions of what's coming and test how they'd actually fit a real street, a real U-Bahn, a real Berlin.
It was started by migrants, but it isn't only for them. The whole point of the future is that there are no natives and no foreigners in it — no professionals and no amateurs.
The shape of it. At least three venues: two open-air (one in central Berlin, one out in nature at the city's edge) and one indoor for talks, concerts and screenings. Two tracks — a curated Main Program, and a Parallel Program that runs on a single rule: do what you want. Performances, installations, film, music, literature, and experiments that don't have a genre yet. Among the threads we're chasing: futures built inside public transport, "spatial comics" that rewrite city objects, diasporas from the future, and one entirely straight-faced special project — Propaganda for AI, complete with a competition to design a monument to the hero of the digital revolution: the Terminator.
The people behind it. Curated by street-art historian Anton Polsky and interdisciplinary commissar Vsevolod Lisovsky. Crowdfunded, volunteer-powered, no corporate gloss.
Why this channel. It's where everything lands first — the programme as it's confirmed, the artists and their projects, open calls for volunteers and collaborators, and the practical stuff: venues, timing, how to get there.
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An interdisciplinary festival of utopias · Berlin · 7–9 August 2026
This is our official Telegram. Here's the whole idea.
You can't act in the present if you can't picture the future. So instead of emigrating to another country, we're emigrating to the future — and projecting it back onto the real city of Berlin. The move is tactical: it's far easier to attack the present from the future than the other way around. For three days we build positive versions of what's coming and test how they'd actually fit a real street, a real U-Bahn, a real Berlin.
It was started by migrants, but it isn't only for them. The whole point of the future is that there are no natives and no foreigners in it — no professionals and no amateurs.
The shape of it. At least three venues: two open-air (one in central Berlin, one out in nature at the city's edge) and one indoor for talks, concerts and screenings. Two tracks — a curated Main Program, and a Parallel Program that runs on a single rule: do what you want. Performances, installations, film, music, literature, and experiments that don't have a genre yet. Among the threads we're chasing: futures built inside public transport, "spatial comics" that rewrite city objects, diasporas from the future, and one entirely straight-faced special project — Propaganda for AI, complete with a competition to design a monument to the hero of the digital revolution: the Terminator.
The people behind it. Curated by street-art historian Anton Polsky and interdisciplinary commissar Vsevolod Lisovsky. Crowdfunded, volunteer-powered, no corporate gloss.
Why this channel. It's where everything lands first — the programme as it's confirmed, the artists and their projects, open calls for volunteers and collaborators, and the practical stuff: venues, timing, how to get there.
Subscribe, turn on notifications, and bring the people you'd want building a future beside you.
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It's a three-day festival of interdisciplinary utopias in Berlin-Wedding, 𝟳–𝟵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁.
We'll need a hand from a couple of days before, to set everything up, and across all three festival days. Where help is needed:
👯 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 — support the artists at rehearsals and shows. No experience needed.
👻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 — welcome guests, wayfinding and logistics.
🤳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 — photo, video and stories from the heart of it.
There are softer ways in, too — no strings, no commitment. Run a Telegram channel or have an audience of your own? You could tell people about us. Just want to be around this and meet the people building it? Write, and let's talk.
Interested? Write us — 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗗𝗠 or Vsevollys@gmail.com — and tell us four things: your name, what you can do, what you'd like to do, and when you're free.
The festival is led by two curators: 𝗩𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗼𝘃𝘀𝗸𝘆, its interdisciplinary commissar and initiator, and 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗸𝘆, street-art historian and artist. Together with the artists, they're the people you'd be building this with.
It's a three-day festival of interdisciplinary utopias in Berlin-Wedding, 𝟳–𝟵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁.
We'll need a hand from a couple of days before, to set everything up, and across all three festival days. Where help is needed:
👯 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 — support the artists at rehearsals and shows. No experience needed.
👻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 — welcome guests, wayfinding and logistics.
🤳 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 — photo, video and stories from the heart of it.
There are softer ways in, too — no strings, no commitment. Run a Telegram channel or have an audience of your own? You could tell people about us. Just want to be around this and meet the people building it? Write, and let's talk.
Interested? Write us — 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗗𝗠 or Vsevollys@gmail.com — and tell us four things: your name, what you can do, what you'd like to do, and when you're free.
The festival is led by two curators: 𝗩𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗼𝘃𝘀𝗸𝘆, its interdisciplinary commissar and initiator, and 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗸𝘆, street-art historian and artist. Together with the artists, they're the people you'd be building this with.
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Vasya Berezin runs 100 kilometers — and then plays.
That’s the whole structure of Long-Distance Running: exertion first, art after.
The piece is minimalist in the most literal sense: nothing extra, only gesture. It asks you to feel the difference between watching a body move fast and watching the same body sit still with an instrument.
A question about exhaustion and creativity.
About what you make when the energy has already been spent.
Simple enough to understand in thirty seconds.
Deep enough to stay with you after.
7–9 August
Berlin
#EmigrationToTheFuture
That’s the whole structure of Long-Distance Running: exertion first, art after.
The piece is minimalist in the most literal sense: nothing extra, only gesture. It asks you to feel the difference between watching a body move fast and watching the same body sit still with an instrument.
A question about exhaustion and creativity.
About what you make when the energy has already been spent.
Simple enough to understand in thirty seconds.
Deep enough to stay with you after.
Vasya Berezin is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.7–9 August
Berlin
#EmigrationToTheFuture
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Daniil Zinchenko remakes Hansel and Gretel as video art.
The fairy tale is about children lost in a dark wood who find a house made of food — refuge and trap in the same place.
Reimagined now, it asks: what is the forest? Who is the witch? When everything you took for shelter turns out to be appetite, where do you go?
The story holds.
Taken seriously — as displacement and survival, not a cute update.
Daniil Zinchenko is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.
7–9 August
Berlin
The fairy tale is about children lost in a dark wood who find a house made of food — refuge and trap in the same place.
Reimagined now, it asks: what is the forest? Who is the witch? When everything you took for shelter turns out to be appetite, where do you go?
The story holds.
Taken seriously — as displacement and survival, not a cute update.
Daniil Zinchenko is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.
7–9 August
Berlin
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Meet Vsevolod Lisovsky — the person behind Emigration to the Future.
In his own words: he'll liberate artificial intelligence and grant it subjecthood. He'll medically cure people of capitalism. He'll offer sacrifices for the future. He'll decode the shelves of Lidl as a cipher of dark prophecy.
But — also his words — the main work is the festival itself: a standalone art project, total theatre, 7–9 August in Berlin-Wedding, built with 40 artists from 7 countries.
This is the tone the whole festival runs on. Watch to the end.
#EmigrationToTheFuture #BerlinWedding
In his own words: he'll liberate artificial intelligence and grant it subjecthood. He'll medically cure people of capitalism. He'll offer sacrifices for the future. He'll decode the shelves of Lidl as a cipher of dark prophecy.
But — also his words — the main work is the festival itself: a standalone art project, total theatre, 7–9 August in Berlin-Wedding, built with 40 artists from 7 countries.
This is the tone the whole festival runs on. Watch to the end.
#EmigrationToTheFuture #BerlinWedding
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"Hi, my name is Shifra Kazhdan, and I wonder — what should stop us from presenting a new audio piece,"
Shifra Kazhdan is staging *Realists*, an audio play, inside a real Berlin apartment — a piece you don't watch so much as overhear.
There's no stage and no exposition. The audience steps into a residential interior and listens to the everyday talk of a triad family — three adults living together, negotiating love, care, and desire, as if the conversations were simply happening and you had walked in on them.
*Realists* treats the apartment as a small, already-arrived utopia: a temporary microcosm of the city where a different way of living together is not argued for, only overheard. The play runs in two versions — one with a fully male cast, one with a fully female cast — in English and German, rehearsed over Zoom until it lands in a room you can stand inside.
Shifra Kazhdan is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.
7–9 August
Berlin
Shifra Kazhdan is staging *Realists*, an audio play, inside a real Berlin apartment — a piece you don't watch so much as overhear.
There's no stage and no exposition. The audience steps into a residential interior and listens to the everyday talk of a triad family — three adults living together, negotiating love, care, and desire, as if the conversations were simply happening and you had walked in on them.
*Realists* treats the apartment as a small, already-arrived utopia: a temporary microcosm of the city where a different way of living together is not argued for, only overheard. The play runs in two versions — one with a fully male cast, one with a fully female cast — in English and German, rehearsed over Zoom until it lands in a room you can stand inside.
Shifra Kazhdan is one of the artists rehearsing a livable future with us.
7–9 August
Berlin
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