The more I stay, the more territorial I become

"Psychotherapeutic" sessions, whereby the inner conversations are made visible and public, are broadcasted through a moving van (kamionçinë) which goes en route to the center and peripheral parts of Prishtina. In trying to amend the dissonance between the artist's personal truth and society's vestiges of shame and honor bonds - the ego, superego and collective consciousness speak through her.
A slight reappropriation of a familiar scenario in cities all over Kosovo - men going around town driving a van shouting "hekura, hekura" into a speaker attached on top of it, as a way of inviting people to sell their unused home devices to collect steel and iron parts.
Provoking the dulled consciousness of passersby the performance is an intuitive sight, a message or signal for the passive recipients, acting as the voice of their unconscious. Whereas these men's call to buy valuable metals is a bid to recycle in the most impoverished understanding of it, such are the psychotherapeutic sessions too (the artist’s monologue voiced for live public broadcast) - a call to purge in face of a society which just binges.

This project was produced as part of the collaborative transborder transdisciplinary research and socially engaged art project Some Call us Balkans.