Rituals in Transfigured Time

At 9:40am this morning – Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović sift through the vestiges of Yugoslavian culture…

“The body of culture we were born into lost all its limbs, and since then we are repeatedly reminded that such a body never really existed. The places where we spent our childhood were contaminated with borders and harsh memories of war. Our original cultural identity is undesired, we are encouraged to redefine ourselves and identify with the necropolitics of new nationalisms. The country crumbled into bits, many lost their loved ones and their homes, the land was intoxicated and the death count never ceased. The Yugoslavian culture was proclaimed extinct. Strangely, we can still feel it deep inside us, it consists of many textures of belonging.”

‘Rituals in Transfigured Time’ is made of field recordings from across Yugoslavia, from pristine nature to intoxicated lands and waters, from memorial sites to abandoned factories; analog instruments, radio appropriations; found sounds, voices long gone and forgotten.