Anastasia Lukomskaya

 
 

"Drive out the dark forces from Kremlin" is a performance in support of the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev. Alexander declared that he was going to walk from Yakutia to Moscow to expel Putin from Kremlin. However, the authorities were afraid of the shaman. Gabyshev was arrested on his way and sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital, where he remains to this day.

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We decided to continue the work he started. Dressed in shamanic clothes, we went around the Kremlin counterclockwise, playing the jew's harps and tambourines and reciting a spell that exorcises dark forces, and burned

wormwood, which is also used in ritual practices to exorcise evil spirits.