“Ne сутулься” (literally: “don't slouch”) is how the acting teacher in Moscow corrected Julia and her fellow students' posture. When social media is blocked, this reminder becomes the name of her Telegram channel, where Julia documents her everyday life as a student in Moscow and later from exile in Germany.

This channel becomes the central theme of a media art performance that deals with a life in constant confrontation with war, state regime, and propaganda. In doing so, the performer Julia combines personal material with media images of the war between Russia and Ukraine. She navigates live through Moscows streets, Telegram posts, state news, and private recordings. What does it mean when private everyday life and political catastrophe become inseparable, and how is it possible to continue living? Amid media contradictions, overlaps, and translations, Julia finds herself between growing overload and resistance.

Content Note: Loud volume and intense visual stimuli are used. Physical and psychological violence, nationalist language, war, and trauma are addressed and partially depicted.

Direction, performance: Julia Chaplygina
Dramaturgy: Eva Stallbaum