Soft Power: Dionysian Socialism

Unbreak My Radio and Vorspiel/transmediale/ctm Berlin 2024.

 

Soft power is a performance resulting from Neda Kovinic’s research into the legacy of FKK culture (Freikörperkultur) in the former Yugoslavia, as well from the notions of »naturist paradise« and »social nudity« and their entanglements with contemporaneous political, economic and ecological thinking.

The performance merges narration and sound material from the field, and body gestures and actions abstracted from direct experiences and sensory memories.

At it's radio premiere within the Unbreak My Radio and Vorspiel series of events at bar and radio D59B, it will combine live performing with performers Neda Kovinic and Lucija Grgic with the sound recordings from the performance that had happened at Kunstraum 34 (Stuttgart 2023) in collaboration with the dancers and sound artists Nevena Radulovic, Simonida Zarkovic, Ana Dragic and Lukatoyboy.