In 2016 I finalised production of ‘Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke’ video, which was the first work in which I looked into potentialities of Eastern European queer utopias, while investigating the relationship between history, ‘national values’ and power structures.
Through the work I revisited Eastern European folk traditions and whilst employing feminist and queer reading I questioned why queer love has never been preserved and celebrated in the folk history. I reclaimed these stories by subverting the narrative of ‘straight’ love songs to represent queer love stories instead.
My aim was to problematize how history is written and tradition is represented, often only to sustain the power structures that claim it ‘objective’. I intended to encourage the viewer to consider and experience history as a discourse made out of multiple, overlapping and contesting narratives rather than a single, fixed entity.
