A heroine from the future is once again coming to this year’s BELEF to reconsider, with us – together, the most recent phenomena stemming from the world of mass media, loneliness of homo sapiens in a megalopolis and brutal technology – all of this wrapped up in her latest expert undertaking entitled Songs and Stories with Nikola Tesla as its point of departure, of course! On his birthday, July 10, at the opening of our Festival, Laurie Anderson, the unique pop icon, and her band will perform on the stage of Dom Sindikata a miracle of facing up to the real life and simulation of reality, sincere feelings and pseudo-intimacy. The truth is that no one in the world knows what may happen at this show. So be there, or you may regret it.

DANCE OF ELECTRICITY (For Nikola Tesla)

A while ago, I got a call from the Tesla Institute in Belgrade, long distance. The voice was very faint and it said, “understand do we that much of your work has been dedicated to Nikola Tesla and do we know the blackout of information about this man in the U.S, of A. And so we would like to invite you to the Institute as a free citizen of the world…as a free speaker on American Imperialist Blackout of Information…Capitalist resistance to Technological Progress…the Western World’s obstruction of Innovation. So think about it.” He hung up. I thought: Gee, really a chance to speak my mind, and I started doing some research on Tesla, whose life is actually really sad.

At any rate, I decided to open the series of talks in Belgrade with a song called “The Dance of Electricity” and its beat is derived from an actual dance -- an involuntary dance – and it’s the dance you would do when one of your fingers gets wedged in a live socket and your arms start pumping up and down and your mouth is slowly opening and closing and you can feel the power but no words will come out.

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!