Each video and live episode of Surreal Tale Experience focuses on the interplay between reality and dreams, exploring the depths of the unconscious.
Our experience is like a collage of event fragments, distorted by memory and time, forming its own unique universe.
The project’s multimedia form becomes a tool for expressing the richness of this universe, combining sound, scents, video, and live performance under atmospheric lighting.
Conceptually, the work draws on the ideas of Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan, and is inspired by the unique experiences described in the books of Carlos Castaneda.

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During her performances, Jenia crafts “sonic fairytale landscapes” that merge her own compositions with works by queer and feminist artists from the international experimental scene, enriched by fragments of vintage recordings of fairy tales, films, and classical works on vinyl. This approach comes to life in the first episode, which weaves a continuous narrative where modern music flows seamlessly into vintage material — text, vocal, and instrumental lines — creating an interplay of contrasts that carries the listener into a dreamlike journey. At its core, the mix intertwines the opera The Queen of Spades with the timeless fairy tale Alice in Wonderland, and was recorded live using two vinyl records and two CDJs.

for video performance ¡¡¡ Surreal Tale Experience ¡¡¡ (experimental mix)

Jenя ( Jenia ) Gatash is a queer feminist DJ, music producer, and art director from Odessa ( Ukraine ), currently based in Marseille. Her every mix is a story of sensations where a sound collage becomes a single metaphysical space drawn up with strokes of contrasting music genres: instrumental music, jazz, opera, techno, electro, dark disco, electroclash, acid, experimental, with touches of ambient textures and surrealist lyrics. 

Jenя works as a sound producer with galleries and theatre projects, performs as a DJ. She was a curator of art and performance events at the AWAZ music festival. Jenia organized the first open queer events Q'paradise in the muslim capital of Tatarstan, currently she continues this project in France.

She experiments extensively with the representation of opera and baroque music in contemporary contexts. She defines her artistic, performative, and musical works within this framework as meta-opera / experimental opera and post-rave

for video performance ¡¡¡ Surreal Tale Experience ¡¡¡ (experimental mix)

JENЯ GATASH