Find Your Tongue is an installation and performance that invites the visitors to reflect on the topic of organised crime and corruption in Albania by offering the audience to drink water from ice glasses shaped like the tongue of the former anti-drugs police officer Dritan Zagani. In 2017 Zagani investigated an Albanian organised criminal group that cooperated with the government. As a result, the former Minister of the Interior of the Socialist Party, Sajmir Tahiri, was convicted. Today, Tahiri is serving his sentence at his home, having been released from prison, and Zagani is persecuted by the Albanian government – according to them he is the one who should be punished. Zagani received political asylum in Switzerland where he now lives under a new identity.
Bio
Pleurad Xhafa (AL) is an artist and activist who develops projects that examine the effects of neoliberal political experiments. His research and critical work are the product of a post-conceptual practice, utilizing documentary materials to visually and politically reflect on contemporary culture. His work has been shown internationally at many film festivals and as part of group exhibitions. Xhafa is one of the founders of the Albanian DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art.

Premiere: Artivism Conference 2023 (DE)
Part of Re-Imagine Europe – New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.
This work is available for touring.
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