How Sweet It Is That We Don’t Understand Each Other

National identity is not an immutable and authentic truth, but an imagined construct of communities often created by repeating ritualistic practices and symbols that eventually turn into traditions. Situated in Eastern Europe, Jonė Miškinytė’s research is presented in a performance and scenography that observes how even an everyday object loses its innocence once harnessed as a symbol, and that symbols can have multiple interpretations. Looking at objects as processes, as witnesses of miscellaneous narratives that sink in the past, present and future, and as memorials of different political mechanisms, the project depicts the paradoxes arising from belonging to multiple groups.