Azra and Vuk’s performative practice operates at the unstable intersection of archive, body, and ideology. Their work navigates the afterlives of war, the sedimentation of generational trauma, and the invisible infrastructures of neoliberal governance that continue to shape the region’s social and affective realities. Refusing both moral simplification and aestheticization of suffering, they approach performance not as representation, but as a site of embodied research where testimony, historical documentation, and lived memory are compressed into a shared temporal experience.
This interview traces the methodological and ethical tensions that underpin their practice: What emerges is a sustained reflection on performance as micro-political intervention, an act that may not overturn systems, but can destabilize perception, activate memory, and accumulate subtle yet consequential shifts in collective imagination….
