Pogolina is the first collaborative performance by Nasanin Dahaghin and Julius Pristauz. Treating personal experience and fiction as equals, the work blends collective cultural memories with imagined narratives to construct a fictional character that unfolds through voice, music, and performance.

Developed during their residency at soft power the piece combines self-written texts with original compositions, recordings, and reworked musical material. Text, voice, sampling, CDJs, and sound production are used to create an embodied soundscape in which memory, projection, and fabrication continuously overlap.

Drawing from their distinct artistic backgrounds, the two create a work situated somewhere between a live concert, DJ set, and enacted sound installation. At its core, Pogolina offers a camp take on authenticity: questioning the authority and singularity of the voice, the construction of identity through sound, and the tension between what is lived, performed, borrowed, and reproduced. Existing and original material circulate on equal terms, blurring the boundaries between personal testimony, ambitions, dreams and their manifestation.

Nasanin Dahaghin and Julius Pristauz were selected for this year’s super soft summer residency (15.7.–15.8.2026), a format, through which soft powerregularly welcomes artists, musicians or performers to take over our space for a period of time to pursue, rehearse, explore their current research, projects and ideas. For the summer iteration of the residency programme, an Open Call was published in May 2026, addressing artists and art collectives of all disciplines based in Berlin who are facing space constraints.