Performance

Libera Me - excerpts and conversation

Libera Me is a project by Maja Zećo and her friend, musician and composer Roman Stolyar, born over the past three years and out of a deep need for peace and mutual understanding.

Roman, a Russian dissident, has been living in exile in Berlin for the past three years because he refuses to be part of Putin’s politics and does not support the invasion of Ukraine. Maja Zećo, on the other hand, has been a refugee for 30 years from the country she once proudly called Yugoslavia (and today Bosnia and Herzegovina). In her own words, the first time she left was because of the civil war, and the second time because of the post-war situation.

The artists created the performance collaboratively, including the interviews with people dear to them, from Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Russia. They also tell their own stories and try to leave a mark in these complicated times we live in.

Catch these excerpts and a conversation in our intimate setting of the Pionirfläche Otto at Haus der Statistik before the full 50-minute audiovisual performance is presented as part of 100° Diaspora at the Berliner Festspiele on June 28 at 9pm.