YARAT, the centre of modern art, featured an exhibition project by artist Taus Makhacheva, exploring the phenomenon of the Soviet circus, with the circus of Baku inter alia. In collaboration with an architect, an author and a costume designer, emerged the work of art fusing an installation and an audio play.

Charivari is a type of traditional circus entertainment where each artist performs his one signature act. As the show proceeds, the rhythm of the music revs up, the performers’ movements accelerate, finally merging them all into one kaleidoscope ensemble.

Placed on a circular podium, the size of a circus ring in diameter, the installation illustrates scenes of the audio play whose phantasmagoric characters (the ring leader, an acrobat, a zebra, a lion and others) have either already left the stage of an imaginary circus or haven’t stepped into it yet.