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About Lavrenty Repin

Lavrenty Repin is an artist-researcher who identifies with multiple geographies and no country. He uses filmmaking, the written word and performance art to mediate between ancient and modern worlds. He is the co-founder of Hihiri Pipiri (NGO) and recently completed a Master's in Degrowth.

Culture • 22.08.2025

Walking backwards because the world is going in the wrong direction: An interview with performance artists

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Lavrenty Repin, Russ Cubrich, Sofia Kovarich

At the end of the Degrowth Cabaret at the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo, a handful of conference attendees started a backwards walk from Christiania, Oslo, to Christiania, Copenhagen. Degrowth.info talked to them to learn more about this peculiar feat.