I am going to Magadan

Igor Olinevich was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2011. Like many other anarchist and anti-fascist activists in Russia and Belarus, he became a victim of state power, which tends to use the anti-authoritarian movement as a deterrent whenever it needs to silence civil society and democratic opposition—whether through mass arrests and torture or the destruction of lives in fabricated trials.

The performance is poised between two worlds. Between the oppressive greyness of life in Lukashenko's Belarus (and the even more soul-crushing timelessness of a Minsk remand prison) and a fictional world full of heroic deeds in the struggle between good and evil, it fluctuates just like Olinevich himself—an “anarcho-partisan” by night, an electrical engineer and LARP player by day.

In his diary, he describes the practices of the Belarusian prison system, based not only on brutal physical violence, but above all on sophisticated psychological pressure, which forces prisoners to question their own will and conscience and to lose trust in their closest friends.

In December 2021, Igor Olinevich was again sentenced to twenty years in prison, along with fellow resistance members Sergey Romanov, Dmitry Dubovsky, and Dmitry Rezanovich.