RECREATION OF THE SOLO JA EST BI EST BI EST BI 

Created between 2017 and 2020, Céline Bellut’s solo explores the norms, productivity, and forms of virtuosity imposed on bodies by neoliberalism. Now transmitted to Danijel Sesar, the piece is rewritten through his personal history, political struggles, and cultural heritage. Inspired by the dissenting punk scene of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the performance celebrates fragility, fatigue, and error as acts of resistance. It proposes a radical redefinition of virtuosity, liberated from ableist standards, while paying tribute to the erased memory of Yugoslavia’s dissolution.

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The work becomes a meditation on bodies and their ability to resist forces of control by embracing chaos, instability, and imperfection. The installation draws on the cultural legacy of punk pioneers while directly challenging contemporary political and aesthetic demands, offering an explicit critique of neoliberalism and its logic of overproduction. It exposes the ways capitalism shapes bodies into standardized, profitable machines, sacrificing their singularity and vulnerability in the name of efficiency. By weaving together past and present forms of resistance, the piece invites the audience to reconsider the value of bodies outside the imperatives of performance and exploitation.

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