kresnik, 2023
After a multitude of wars in the middle east in the last decades, with refugees coming to Slovenia, a small Slavic country in Europe, people here, as an excuse of sending them back, are trying to identify themselves as the true Europeans. But who is really a true Slovenian? With massive migrations of nations during the centuries it is hard to speak about indigenous people in Europe. Using music and video as a medium, I am trying to discover, if there exists an indigenous Slovenia, as we have in fact very interesting ancestors and a rich pagan history, that was sadly destroyed a millennia ago by Christianity. The question, I am asking, with this piece is, whether losing a culture could also mean losing ones roots, your indigenousness? The name of the video, kresnik, who was one of our most important deities, is the god fire, which is a powerful symbol of our ancestors, but, in the end, fire also symbolizes their demise and succumbence to the new religion. The accompanying music is a jam in ableton, using also some of our traditional instruments.