Basically
2020-ongoingBasically is an ongoing live project. It utilizes the exhibition space as a hybrid production space and playground; a context to practice and perform within. Basically is structured as a choreographic game in which eight performers hold the rules of the game constant, incorporating visitors in visible and invisible ways. The work is governed by the formal rules as well as by the subjective interpretations that occur in interactions with and between the participating artists and visitors. The creation and re-creation of the environment is central in Basically. Each presentation is one moment in a long-term long-form megawork. Visitors are invited to experience how the works’ characters write the world of Basically into existence – and to become a part of this open-world, role playing game.
Shows
2026
- Basically - Performance, Charleroi dans - It takes a city festival, Brussels, Belgium Visit link: Basically
2025
- Basically - Performance, Scuola Piccola Zattere, Venice, Italy Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Solo exhibition, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Performance, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland Visit link: Basically
2024
- Basically - Solo exhibition, mumok, Vienna, Austria Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Solo exhibition, Accelerator, Stockholm, Sweden Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Performance, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands Visit link: Basically
2023
- Basically - Performance, Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Performance, KAAP, Oostende, Belgium Visit link: Basically
- Basically - Performance, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium Visit link: Basically
2022
- Basically - Group exhibition, Shedhalle - PROTOZONE 6: Are you coming?, Zurich, Switzerland Visit link: Basically
2021
- Basically - Group exhibition, Shedhalle - PROTOZONE 3: You're So Busy, Zurich, Switzerland Visit link: Basically
2020
- Basically - Solo exhibition, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Visit link: Basically
Press
- Hier wird man unbemerkt teil van Kunst Frankfurter Allgemeine | FAZ (2025) Read article: Hier wird man unbemerkt teil van Kunst
- Something Like Impulse Magazine (2025) Read article: Something Like
- Cosmos Under Construction PW-Magazine (2024) Read article: Cosmos Under Construction
- EMOZIONI SCOPERTE O SEGRETE: ilgioco della vita di Nikima Jagudajev Vanity Fair Italia (2024) View PDF: EMOZIONI SCOPERTE O SEGRETE: ilgioco della vita di Nikima Jagudajev
- Basically. At Accelerator, we get to play with time Svenska Dagbladet (2024) Read article: Basically. At Accelerator, we get to play with time
- I-Am-Controller Spike Art Magazine (2022) Read article: I-Am-Controller
- Nikima Jagudajev: Getting To Know Each Other in Public Art Papers (2021) Read article: Nikima Jagudajev: Getting To Know Each Other in Public
Credits
The Class of the 21st Century: Concept, Direction & Choreography: Nikima Jagudajev Musical Collaboration and Technical Direction: Jordan Balaber & Lester St. Louis Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart
With: Bård Aarvik (music, movement), Matti Aikio (video), Laurel Atwell (dance), Samuel Baidoo (dance, textile, light), Jordan Balaber (music), Matilda Cobanli (dance, elixirs, food), Lara Dâmaso (dance, music), Emmanuel Diela Nkita (dance), Emmanuel Edoror (dance), Ezra Fieremans (dance, music), Nimia Gracious (dance), Yevheniya Kravets (dance), Ama Kyei (dance), Kalle Lähde (dance), Lucas Lopez Pereira (dance), Vilja Mihalovsky (dance), Ashley Morgan (music, movement), Yoh Morishita (dance), Maria Muehombo (MIMI) (music, movement), Mona Namer (dance, textile), Shelmith Oseth (dance), Salomon Leonard Poutsma (music, movement, light), Camilla Schielin (dance), Laura Stellacci (textile design, dance), Lester St. Louis (music, movement), Julie Silset (music), Ellen Söderhult (dance), Magnus Håland Sunde (textile), Amina Szecsödy (dance, music), Gry Tingskog (dance, textile), Louise Trueheart (dance, still lifes), Alexandra Tveit (dance), Marie Ursin (dance), Niko Ursin (music), nick von kleist (food, celestial ferryman), Amalia Wiatr Lewis (dance), Minna Kaaronen (dance)
Musical Contribution: Amina Szecsödy, June Jenkins Graphic Design: Laurel Atwell, Zöe Field Powder Deck Contribution: Ayomoy Arrono, Laurel Atwell, Samuel Baidoo, Sanne Dodier, Nina Emge, Olivia Erlanger, Che Go Eun, Zoë Field, Polina Filipova, Padyn Humble, Melanie Matthieu, Abigail McNamara, Hana Miletić, Saye Oyama, Salomon Leonard Poutsma, Lester St. Louis, Ra Tack, Wes Taylor, nick von kleist (nvk), Maïra Villena, Petra Webb, Amalia Wiatr Lewis, Joanna Zabielska Photography: Zoë Field, Melanie Matthieu, Marcella Ruiz Cruz, Stine Sampers, Giacomo Bianco, Thorsten Arendt Video: Saye Oyama, Salomon Leonard Poutsma Mix and Master: Chris Pawlusek Production: Hiros