All four presented video art pieces represent different images of ritual death. Death as a folklore image - short experimental animation film "Ukrainian Folk Tale About the Murdered Sister"; death as a metaphysical transformation - performative video act "Fuck my black holes, they are bottomless"; death as the destruction of the material - performative video-art "THE SUN OMOPHAGOUS AND HIS CHILDREN"; death and its proximity to the act of healing - performative video essay "Uzdrawianie" (Healing).

Name: Darja-Kazimira Zimina
Born — Location: Latvia - Georgia

I left my homeland 13 years ago, having since followed the winding path of relocation that brought me to Georgia 6 years ago. Today, my main workshop is located here, which serves both my musical and visual ideas. It was in Georgia that I discovered the endless wealth of garbage dumps, which serve as the main material for my sets, costumes, musical instruments and other objects, thus becoming a material core in the implementation of my projects.

Darja-Kazimira Zimina (Darja Kazimira; Kazimir Zimin) is an improvisational musician and artist who works mainly with the theme of ritual, the concept of sacred violence, and taboo. The artist's methodology is based on the principle of constructing a sacred space in which musical and visual cycles are realized, often consisting of performative body practices, as well as extreme body practices, unfolding on the foundation of pseudo-mythological or pseudo-story-telling constructions, not implying open semantic access for the listener or viewer.