Shivers

Installation

“Shivers” is an invitation to experience sound as a distant touch, an electric current through the spine, a shiver on the skin. In search of intimacy with voices and presences inaudible to human ears, we uncover conversations in the immediate environment. Collected infrasound, ultrasound, and electromagnetic waves surrounding the landscape of river Rhine are transformed into an auditory and sculptural composition. Through tweaks and experiments with acoustic data, we have captured the perceptions of living beings around us: a fish, a bat, a bird.

Exhibited at RichCake, Bad Ems.
Curated by Dr. Katharina FInk.
The project was created in collaboration with Hyewon Suk and with the support of Théa Haug, Nadja Tobias, Vinicius Jatobà, Valentina Butumović and Irena Đurkesac.

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Plastic Drift: Chemical Messengers

Installation

Plastic Drift: Chemical Messengers, explores endocrine disruptors in plastic and its queering effects on human bodies. The chemical flows between materials indicate their transformative power to imagine posthuman bodies beyond the purity myths, organic and inorganic. We explore plastic contamination of waters and altered human bodies. By melting, soaking and scratching plastics, we provoke the extraction of chemicals to discover their disruptive processes. We use latex, similar to skin, as a porous material to render these changes visible. Wearables and sculptures allow us to engage with disruptive flows sensually and conscientiously, situated between bodily fact and bodily fiction.

In collaboration with Valentina Butumović

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Sea Soma

Installation

Sea squirt swims freely in the sea until it finds a permanent place on the rock and swallows the nervous system. This creature provoked a theory that the brain evolved in parallel to the complexity of bodily movement.

Sea Soma is a fictional ecosystem exploring screen-dependent life in contrast to the immersive experience of seawater. While diving into embodied cognition, it opposes the mind-oriented perception of intelligence. The installation encompasses cycles of media transformations between analog and digital, capturing the dancer’s explorations of touch, skin, and the sea creature. It consists of a video projected through transparent screen sculptures, bioplastic “skin”, mobile phones on neck holders, and algorithmic sounds and images.

The project is presented at Centrum, Berlin. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media 2021/2022.

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‘Garden Manifesto’ exists in-between collective poetry and contemplative drawings. Inspired by natural processes it forms metaphors for new relations between human and natural structures. It strives for visions of the future of art and important little things that can be found in the garden.

Garden Manifesto is part of the dynamic publication ‘Everything is New’ initiated by Nikolay Alutin.

The project is supported by Framed Berlin, De Appel Amsterdam and Goethe Institute Netherlands.

‘Documenting Self - Loops of Digital Mediation’ is a research of relations between the digital documents, social media platforms and the activities.

Mediated experiences, skills and their documents appear as a byproducts of different media, internet and technology. Results are new modes of behaviour and movement ensued from changed daily habits and existing platforms for presentation and sharing experiences. The effects of the virtual knowledge and documented reality create new physical reactions within the mediated body-movement-space relations.

Collected internet materials are translated into speculative drawings and serve as an analytical research of those relations.

Presented within the project Dia:Forme, Goethe Institut Croatia.