Diona Kusari

Biography

Diona Kusari is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher, cultural and arts mediator based in Kosovo. She creates performances, video and sound art, installations, short films, digital art and participatory events. Her work is concerned with illustrating the 'unseen' in terms of ideology and faith, folk practices, public expression of vulnerability, and challenging the apparent dichotomies and delineation of private space (the individual) and public space (the state, society). She's part of the Potpuri Collective, which focuses on experimental research, self-organised and decentralised knowledge production. She is also part of the first collective which creates and runs cultural and arts mediation programs for cultural institutions in Kosovo. 

Artistic project

Probability, Bias and Faith: Exercises in Quantum Entanglement is a multidisciplinary project that explores conditioned responses, selective memory, automatized behaviors, bias, and predictability. At its core, the project asks how our actions in public space are shaped and limited by conditioning. The work tests this idea by verbalizing, reversing, and unlearning the body’s automatic responses to being seen and witnessed in public. Through choreographic practices, scripting, the body-as-subject, community participation, personal memorabilia, and small-scale interventions, the artist creates situations that unsettle what feels natural or habitual.

The project unfolds in stages:
(a) exploring mobility (texture, form, speed, frequency) with objects in public space, and contrasting this with bringing domestic objects and actions into public;
(b) endurance acts in public space;
(c) negotiating visibility—being captured on hidden and public cameras versus seeking anonymity through masks, veiling, and coverage;
(d) mapping noise pollutants in public space and probing the limits of what sounds are permissible;
(e) planting prompts and scripts as “easter-eggs” or side-quests within the urban environment.

As part of this process, Diona is developing a modular set of acts—performative tools that can be indefinitely combined to mirror and respond to experiences of shame and hypervigilance. The project documents how the body navigates exposure and retreat in the form of an autoethnographic research, a performative body of work, and an archive.

Format: time-based performance, endurance act, intervention in public space 

Size of audience: from 100 to 200 people

Specific location: main square, abandoned site, residential building, park

Timing / duration: 2-4 hours