The Informals/Неформалы is partly an autobiographical work, as well as a universal statement on the notions of decentralization, collectivism and non-conformist ways of living among the youth in the digital age. The audiovisual collaboration between Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne researches the improvisation technique in the medium documentary and in its methodology resembles the patterns of the digital natives of Murmansk, who in order to escape the norms and social constructs of the Northern Region of Russia navigate to deserted spaces in their area, and through their collective presence improvise with the space, adding a new layer to its genealogy. Medvedeva and Kuhne travel back to the former military zone Medvedeva was born in and through documentation and field improvisation, much like the youths of Murmansk region, by resonating with this now abandoned area temporarily transfer it into the present. The collected data, divided into separate interchangeable contextual elements and prepared for live triggering and processing, resembles an audiovisual instrument which, when played by the artist duo, produces and exports new unscripted versions with each live performance, with narrations, connections and interpretations emerging through the presence of the audience.