Darja Kazimira & Zura Makharadze deliver an intense ritual sonic experience situated at the intersection of improvisation, archaic ceremony and contemporary experiment. The Darja Kazimira project, created by Darja-Kazimira Zimina of Latgalian-Ukrainian origin and currently based in Tbilisi, emerges from a long-term exploration of sacred space, transformation and corporeality. Through extended hypnotic improvisational cycles, a unique asemiotic language unfolds, balancing between meaning and its complete dissolution. The work draws on funerary and fertility rites, ancient tragedy and motifs of sacred brutality, with authentic ethnic and self-built instruments playing a central role.

Zura Makharadze is active within Georgia’s experimental and ritual music scene as a percussionist and improviser. Solo works explore motifs of trance, Dionysian mysteries, madness, sexuality, death and ecstasy, conveyed through the physical intensity of sound, layered percussion and voice.

Together, they create a dark and deeply immersive rite of sound and body, where archaic musical traditions are transformed into a radically contemporary and psychologically urgent expressive form.