climate & socially engaged artist
nikolina butorac
Portfolio
How I see the world
Within recent histories of decolonization, women’s rights, socialism, animal rights, and labor policies, I’m reshaping shame, failure, and melancholy into activism and participation.
My motivation
My art practice comes from inviting participation and rediscovering ways of living (not just surviving) in a time characterized by political, economic, and climate crises, including the destruction and extinction of the world as we know it.
Gentle resistances
With gentle resistance, through a personal lens, I’m searching for tactics and methods to communicate system change.
Moving Horizons, Mental State of Time;
mobile self-empowerment workshops and poster action
The topic is mental health and the lack of mental health care for adolescents and young people in Croatia. The project is divided into three separate stages:
1. Journalistic research on the increase in self-harm and suicide among young people.
2. Multimedia art workshops with high school art students focused on empowerment and raising self-confidence.
3. Transferring students’ pieces in the form of city light posters to four places in Zagreb.
1. Journalistic research on the increase in self-harm and suicide among young people.
2. Multimedia art workshops with high school art students focused on empowerment and raising self-confidence.
3. Transferring students’ pieces in the form of city light posters to four places in Zagreb.
“My art practice comes from inviting participation and rediscovering ways of living (not just surviving) in a time characterized by political, economic, and climate crises, including the destruction and extinction of the world as we know it. Deliberated through the social and political prism, my works are aimed at the void left by incompetent and corrupt authorities.”
“The medium of performance, eat-art & prose poetry, which I use in my work, has a lively, activist, revolutionary momentum, the momentum of transferring the mimetic changes in mentality. This energy is a trigger with which I decode the space and the visitor, since the audience – particularly the accidental one – is the seed of reality that processes the artistic act, thereby growing together with the artist.”
About Nikolina
Winner of the G w a e r t l e r grant for the multimedia, socially engaged research project on mental health and assertiveness among young people; Moving Horizons-Mental State of Time