Ep. 4 Bewilderment Archive — A Conversation with Olya / Olya Korsun / 31.05.2025 by Radio Robida

Bewilderment Archive

Over four episodes, this show will explore the concept of carnival as a territory of
perpetual crossing of social, political, gender and interspecies borders. We will start
from a rather broad outline of carnival as a phenomenon of European culture which
enables the two-world state and creates a parallel reality of an ‘upside down world’.
After, we will zoom into the carnivalesque crowd to focus our investigation first on the
grotesque bodies inhabiting carnivals and then, specifically, on the mystical figure of
Wild Man – frequent guest of European winter carnivals. We will finish with a series of
interviews in which Robida members and Topolòvians share their memories of the
distant and magical carnivals of their childhood.
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IV: A Conversation with Olya

Robida's Aljaž talked with Olya about her interest in the carnival, her other projects connected to the topics and the idea of the soul.
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Author: Olya Korsun
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The Other Radio project is part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia.