Parasites of the Brain

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Marat Raiymkulov’s lecture-performance is an innovative monologue play that voices the artist’s conjoined philosophical reactions living through multiplepolitical revolutions, the appearance of horror films after the collapse of the Soviet era, a former physicist’s eager desire to scientifically approach his presidency in Kyrgyzstan, meeting with personal demons during the inglorious times of Kafka and Gogol, and the space of time when Lenin’s house of Culture became the church of Jesus Christ.