the vvill festival

Festival of Gentle Influences co-curated with Nu Simakina, Belgrade, 2023


«The VviLL» festival is 2 days of improvisational sets where music, video and performance directly interact with each other and create an overall picture. Every day is an artistic ritual. Can it change reality?


«The VVILL» had the idea of changing the reality through music, contemporary art and magic as its concept. It consisted of two main positions:

- a horizontal discussion of disturbing topics, issues that we identify as something we would like to change;
- a concentration on one of the most important for the participants topic through improvisational interdisciplinary sets: “musician - performer”, “musician - video artist” and others.

Interesting thing, that the participants didn’t manage to come up with one clear statement of what they would
like to change. So the disability to make a wish, a missed opportunity became the starting point for improvisation.
This also was the magical formula for performative ritual that ended the festival up.

4th of January, Dim bar
- Ilya Kruchinin live set
- endlea (music), Ksenia Timofeeva (video), Olga Uzikaeva (performance) improvisation set
8th of January, Novi Bioscope Zvezda
- Ksenia Bakhtina (music), Anton Chizhenok (video), Zukhra Yannikova (text), Nu Simakina & Katya Davydova & Olga Uzikaeva (performance) improvisation set
- Pasha Surkov live set
- Zhenya Pyankov (music), Fedor Gladilin (video), Kotya Davydova and Nyu Simakina (performance) improvisation set
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