Participant is proud to present Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Two Russians in the Free World, a multi-channel video installation that maps the interconnections between artistic inspiration, love, and the marketplace. As in their previous collaborative works, music and song are key elements, conveying a narrative derived from actual interviews; in this case, five hours of interview footage with Sasha Jampolsky, who plays the character Sasha, detailing his stories about being an artist in 1970s Soviet Union. The environment created for Two Russians in the Free World is centered around a 75-minute video projection, synched with two flatscreens representing the main characters, Manni, a Russian billionaire, and Sasha, a moneyless artist. The inclusion of sculpture made of shopping carts, blocks of text from the script, beanbag chairs, and a theatrical scrim of an 18th Century British Period Room furthers the artists’ orchestration of a multiplicitous chorus that simultaneously plays out on screen and in the gallery space.