A cosmic and personal travel of a pioneer of experimental vocal and performance art
Katalin Ladik: Foreign Substance: The Transformation of Remembering
In a neutral zone — a No Man’s Land — Katalin Ladik stands before a vast projection screen. Around her, a Solar System unfolds: planets orbit the Sun, each embodying a facet of her artistic language.
The performance takes place inside her mind — a live act of remembering. Images appear, leap across time, contradict themselves. Ladik argues with her own memories, reshaping them, inventing what never happened, confronting thoughts that seem to have strayed from reality.
Two parallel worlds emerge: one of recalled life episodes, the other a cosmic dance of celestial bodies. Gradually, they entwine.
From this fusion, Ladik isolates and amplifies the Foreign Substance — the most ancient matter — within her own universe. With its resonances, she begins to compose what she calls Einstein’s unfinished acoustic symphony.
Inspired by the discovery of gravitational waves — Foreign Substance born from the collision of two neutron stars — this performance follows Katalin Ladik as she rides the gravitational currents of her own life and vocal universe. Like a wave rider, she confronts the foreign matter that has shaped her existence.
A pioneer in experimental vocal and performance art, Ladik continually questions gender norms and female archetypes, using her body and voice as both instrument and medium. Transformation and substitution shape her work, dissolving boundaries and dualities — a universe where human, object, and nature speak in a shared, timeless language.
Live on stage, Ladik’s voice and movements weave with vast video projections and the natural sounds of stars, drawing the audience into a hypnotic space where art and science meet. The journey is as much cosmic as it is personal.
Sajeta 2026
- SWAI (SLO)
- ABOP (CRO)
- JOŠ GORI (CRO/SRB)
- IRENA TOMAŽIN (SLO)
- SAMO KUTIN & VID DRAŠLER (SLO)
- NIKA PRUSNIK & ROK ZALOKAR (SLO)
- BOA BÉRES (SRB)
- SUJEVERA (SLO)
- BITOI (SE/DK)
- ETCETERAL (SLO)
- FILAMENTS OF EXISTENCE (ITA)
- GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE (JPN)
- WAQWAQ KINGDOM (JPN/GB)
- WIYAALA & YAGA YAGAS (GHA/SLO)
- KATALIN LADIK (HUN)
- GRUNT (SLO)
- BALMAINJEANS (GBR)