Residence week 8 / 2025

During their research at DansiT, Asya Ashman and Konstantin Koryagin aim to hybridize their recent explorations of conspiracy and post-truth, approaching these themes from a choreographic and cinematic perspective.

We are at a moment in history where media, AI, and algorithms are reshaping the relationship between people and information. Images and narratives emerge in a constant feedback loop between hallucination and truth, leading to an increase in the number of conspiracy theory adherents. In this context, the paranoid idea of “Revelation of the Method,” which combines a modern media context with occultism, is born. This idea states that elites reveal their hidden plans through the media to reduce ‘karmic responsibility’ by making them known.

In this research, using the body and camera, Asya and Konstantin explore conspiratorial thinking and investigative methods, working between manipulation and revelation.

About the artists

Asya Ashman is a dance artist and performer whose work delves into themes of attention hierarchies, deconstructed entertainment and the eerie. These explorations inform both her artistic practice and her work with young people. Asya holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from HZT Berlin and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Hertfordshire. Currently, she develops the project for children with refugee experience Play!Berlin e.V. that she had co-founded. In her practice, she creates performances, games, and workshops that emphasize interdisciplinarity and collaboration.

Konstantin Koryagin holds a MA in Philosophy and BA in Political Science. Since 2018 he is the editor of syg.ma – community-run media on philosophy, society and contemporary art. In 2021 he graduated from the Moscow School of New Cinema. In 2022 he was a guest student at the Art and Media programme at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since then he has been making video essays and short films that combine research into historical memory and conspiracy thinking with a surrealist and post-doc cinematic approach. He was born in Moscow and currently lives in Berlin.

Supported by

This residency is supported by the LKV AiR program and the “Culture Moves Europe” grant from the European Union and the Goethe Institute.