performance lecture / installation / conversation

Three speculations for a “fourth world”. Against nostalgia, beyond hauntings. Foundations – hauntings of Non-Alignment. Foundations – hauntings of socialist Yugoslavia. And partisans. Of the East. Of the South. The parallax – the void. Of the East. Of the South. Universality – intersectionality. Decolonize, deorientalize, debalkanize. And queer. The rest is history. Or worse: futurity. Or worse: methodology. Or worse: ontology. Or worse. Such as Rivers with Non responds to Constellations of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon and echoes Such as Rhymes with Non, a performance essay / installation by NAM ChoreoLab (Sonja Pregrad, Croatia, Ana Dubljević, Serbia, Viktorija Ilioska, North Macedonia, and Dražen Dragojević, Slovenia), exploring stagings of non-alignment and non-aligned choreography, and dealing with the historical and personal lineages – “days of future past” – of the Non-Aligned Movement, its rejection of Cold War bipolarity by challenging (neo)imperialism and (neo)colonialism, through an intersectional turn.