Rovinj- public space of the city

2019

The installation and performance refer to a person’s ability to raise their environmental consciousness so as to think differently and accept responsibility for their actions. The work consists of soil heaped at the point of passage, and papers with ecological terms such as “environmental justice,” “simplicity of life,” “local environmental care,” “clean technology,” “waste minimisation,” etc. There is a microphone in close proximity of the soil, which amplifies the internal vibrations and the external sounds-reactions of viewers. The sounds I am making are directed towards the soil; their intensity varies from very quiet ones, to loud sounds of pain and grief. I am inviting the viewers to join me – two children and an adult come from the audience and make sounds with me. At the end, I give each of them one of the ecological terms with written date and location, as a material performative artefact. Event: Grisia Youth , summer 2019.

Cultural Center of Peščenica (Zagreb)

2018

The concept of this work is the question of presenting today’s educational system through the eyes of children. I wonder as to how and where the pupils experience and practice in everyday life the following educational achievements: appropriateness, regularity, vigorous proof, restriction, appointment keeping, empowerment?

In the performance, I instruct the audience to read the Pupils’ Rights from the Act on Education in Primary Schools of the Republic of Croatia.

I repeat the statements after audience members, all the while tightening a bushy branch around my neck. When the audience are done reading the seven rights of pupils, I tell them to invent a new right based on their experience at school, be it good or bad. Afterwards, as materialised memory of that moment, I give out corn seeds to the audience, to be planted somewhere in the yard of the Cultural Centre of Peščenica (Zagreb).

Pupils’ Rights:

1. * the right to be informed of all matters pertaining to them.

2. * the right to counselling and assistance in solving the problem in accordance with their best interests.
3. * the right to have their opinion respected.
4. * the right to assist other pupils at school.
5. * the right to make a complaint that can be referred to teachers, the Director, and the School Board.
6. * the right to participate in the work of the School Council of Pupils.
7. * the right to suggest improvements in the educational process and work.

A recipe for noticing the city’s living elements: Go to the city centre. While walking, try to notice plants in front of people’s houses. Remember the places at which you saw these plants.

The performance was presented in Krk in 2017.

City Museum of Umag

2016

The work consists of a series of performances before an audience, in which my collaborator Darko Brajković and I lie down covered in a mixture of bay leaves, sage, lavender and lemongrass. Our breathing is slowing down, we are sinking into a dream and focusing on the smell of herbs. The herbs cover our heads, chests, torsos, and legs. We are relaxing and waiting for a particular memory to be awakened by the smell of herbs. We are lying in this position for 15-20 minutes. Then we get up and write down our experience in a blank book, while also inviting the audience to do the same.

I found inspiration for this work in Proust’s reflections on time and memory; he said that time relived is not lost forever and can be summoned through our senses. In this performance, we recall our memories with the sense of smell.

City of Opatija

2014

Feeling shame, showing signs of shyness, shame.
Description of the intervention:
The basic idea of the project is a space installation on the Walk of Fame in the city of Opatija. The installation consists of plants forming the word “shame” or “sram” in Croatian. With this word, I ask myself and the public: “What does it mean to feel shame?” “We were ashamed of something in puberty and while growing up, but is shame a virtue or a flaw of an adult human being? If it is a virtue, shouldn’t every person have a dose of shame in themselves?” Surrounded by the media and politicians that constantly lie without a shred of shame, this question seeks to encourage passers-by to define by themselves as to what the word shame means to them at present.

Gallery Prozori, Library S.S.Kranjčevića, Zagreb

2010

The starting point of the exhibition Intertwining was the joint space of the gallery and the neighborhood library, specific situation that required a solution: to recognize the reasons, opportunities and methods of intervention. The Gallery, which is minimized on a series of windows, is prone to things sliding in or out. Based on the statistics, which indicate that young Croatian literature is not being read enough, I am doing a performance piece of writing out texts taken from Croatian literature on the windows.
The public life of the neighborhood pulsates around the library so texts are firstly intended for the people living there.