Projects

》》》The Future of Feminist Performance

The Future of Feminist Performance presents and re-contextualizes the artistic and activist legacy of internationally renowned poet, performer, and sound artist Katalin Ladik (Hungary).
Her experimental voice poetry, body art, and feminist interventions have left a profound mark on avant-garde culture in Central and South-Eastern Europe, while her artistic legacy continues to inspire new research and interpretations across different cultural contexts.
Through her multimedia practice, Ladik challenges the existing social symbolic order. She explores female experience, body, routines, and sexuality, questioning the position of women artists within a predominantly male art world.
Engaging in dialogue with her legacy are contemporary artists including Bojana (S) Knežević, Kinga Tóth, Irena Tomažin, Nina Dragičević, among others, expanding the field of feminist performance today.
Bringing together artists from Austria, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia, the project fosters intercultural dialogue, empowers a new generation and highlights the ongoing relevance of feminist artistic practices in addressing contemporary social challenges.
 May 29 — Slowmotion Festival, Opatija (Croatia)
Katalin Ladik
 July 17 — Sajeta Festival, Breginj (Slovenia)
Katalin Ladik, Bojana (S) Knežević in Irena Tomažin

 Autumn — Klagenfurt, Novi Sad & Trieste (TBA)
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Supported by Alps-Adriatic Alliance
https://alps-adriatic-alliance.org/
Project partners: lead Zveza Mink Tolmin, Klanhaus (Aut), (Re)Konekcija (Srb), SlowMotion Festival (Cro) in Hangar teatri (Ita).

》》》hydraHacks (hHx)

by Peter Purg

Six site-specific performances spanning two years. A distributed myth-tech ecology hacking across different vulnerable or wounded waterscapes of the Adriatic region.
hHx works with the Hydra* as a posthuman figure of multiplicity: not a monster to be slain (in hu-man domination), but an insurgent sensorium for damaged waters, contested access, extractive histories, and the fragile politics of care. In Greek mythology, the Hydra is a serpent-like water monster from the marshes of Lerna whose heads regenerate when cut off; Heracles defeats it by cauterizing the neck-stumps, then dips his arrows in its poisonous blood and buries its immortal head beneath a rock.
Each performance iteration is developed for one site only and grows from a few days of focused, on-location research (a short visit or embedded). The hexalogy series operates as a set of hacks against normalized environmental harm: embodied interventions that do not “illustrate” ecological crisis, they rather make its tensions felt: the leakages, thresholds, drownings, survivals, re-emergences.