Jelena Kuljić - Fundamental Interactions

Fundamental Interactions is a special project by musician and performer Jelena Kuljić, in which she brings together an international line-up with poets from the former Yugoslavia, combining improvisation, contemporary electronic music, jazz, progressive rock, poetry and avant-garde.

In addition to his own texts, Kuljić also uses poems by Marko Pogačar and Olja Savičević Jovančević from Croatia, Selma Asotić and Jasna Šamić from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dragana Mladenović from Serbia. The focus is on the things that connect us and make us similar, the tension between home, language and identity. Together with Olga Reznichenko (keyboard), Christian Lillinger (drums), Kalle Kalima (guitar) and Tim Dahl (bass), they have created an extraordinary music project that questions borders, both geographically and musically, and works on a common "home" in sound, music and words. A musical reminder of what a "we" can create when individuals are prepared to cross borders. Improvisation, contemporary electronic music, jazz, progressive rock, poetry and avant-garde come together in this unique project.

The album of the same name will be released in 2025 to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war in Bosnia.