2-channel video installation

director Neda Kovinić

camera Marko Tošić

editor Arion Asllani

dancers: Syv Bruzeau, Danijela Vuckovic, Ezgi Durak, Marija Maletić, Neda Kovinić

musicion: Milan Bukejlović

Gellery Podroom, CCB Belgrade

2020.

Shared Spaces, LAF Pforzheim, Germany, 2023.

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While we work for our daily fee, through linked natural, animal and human resources for the accumulation of the capital for the few, everything else vanishes. Referring to Pasolini’s 1975 essay The Disappearance of the fireflies, this video talks about the world after man. Humane values, organic, biological, organic limits are under attack. As Pasolini had spoken of the world after the fireflies, so today we are talking about the world after man. The group of performers explored this topic in the urban landscape at the Student City Culture Center in Belgrade, Serbia.

Moving images are in dialogue with the spatial-utopian paradigms of socialist modernism embodied in the architecture of the Student City in Belgrade (1960), built at a time when students and education were in the focus of social ideals.

 “The firefly is a tiny animal, so sensitive, that when the air becomes too heavy, it dies. In some ways, we are these fireflies destroyed by the system. The fireflies are representatives of the way of life that had begun to vanish, because we had become infected by the system, the consumerism, which all affected us and ruined us ... " (Ninetto Davoli)