On Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 October 2025, at 5 pm, 7 pm and 9 pm, the artist Tin Dožić, in collaboration with Ivana Bojanić, Andro Giunio and Miodrag Gladović, will present the sound performance "Alkemija kristala".
The sound performance „Alchemy of Crystals“ is based on piezoelectricity – the property of certain materials to generate electrical energy under mechanical stress, and vice versa. At the centre of the art work are Rochelle salt crystals, or potassium sodium tartrate, a material discovered in the 17th century in the French city of La Rochelle. This very material later became crucial to the discovery of piezoelectricity, demonstrated in 1880 by brothers Pierre and Jacques Curie.
Dožić has cultivated crystalline resonators which, in performance, become a kind of geological-chemical speakers. By constructing such speakers, he refers to the historical use of Rochelle salt in the production of commercial tweeters. Through their sonic interventions, Bojanić, Dožić, Giunio and Gladović breathe in life into inanimate crystals – they vibrate at the threshold of audibility.
By reinterpreting obsolete sound technologies, the performers search for poetics at the intersection of science and fiction, silence and sound, hauntology and media archaeology. Inspired by the role of piezoelectricity in the work of Marie and Pierre Curie, as well as their fascination with spiritualist sessions, we invite the audience to experience listening of the crystals in small groups. The crystals become channels of communication between sound technologies and the supernatural.
Admission to the performance is free of charge. Booking is required via e-mail: kontejnerkontejner@gmail.com, specifying the preferred date and time. Each performance is limited to 10 visitors.
Project author: Tin Dožić
Sound collaborators and co-authors: Ivana Bojanić, Andro Giunio and Miodrag Gladović
Technical collaborator: Miodrag Gladović
Resonant box construction: Jakov Habjan
The programme is co-financed by the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.
Tin Dožić (HR)
Tin Dožić completed a degree in Psychology at the Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and a degree in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In his artistic practice, he often works with the medium of sound, engaging in field recording, radio, experimental music, and multimedia installations. His work is grounded in media research, with interests including the materiality of media, (dark) ecology, DIY culture, the Anthropocene and geology, the intersection of science and art, as well as sleep and dreams. He has exhibited and performed on various platforms in Croatia and abroad, both as a solo artist and in collaborative projects. His work "Songs for the Anthropocene" won Zlatna lubenica at the Media Mediterranea festival in 2018. He was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar award in 2019 and an alumnus of the WHW Academy, class of 2019/2020. As part of a creative team, Sven Sorić (visual identity), Hrvoje Spudić (visual identity), Sara Salamon (video animation) and Tin Dožić (sound design), he received the Young Author Award (up to 35 years old) at the 55th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the visual identity of the 30th MBZ. As part of the duo Dožić and Udovčić, he received the same award at the 58th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the work "Forest Cabin". He has participated in numerous national and international residencies, including Summer Sessions (V2_, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017), Voids 2021 (CultureHub Split, Croatia, 2021), and Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023). He is a member of CFAA.
Ivana Bojanić (HR)
Ivana Bojanić is a dance and multimedia artist. She graduated in contemporary dance from the Academy of Dramatic Art (2021) and spent part of her studies at the University of Arts Helsinki. She is currently pursuing a Master's in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts. As an author, she works at the intersection of performance, dance, voice, and materiality, with a focus on the voice as a material, affective, and socially shaped presence. She is the creator of the works "HIHI" and "We Were Not Here" (MSU, Antisezona), and has participated in performances such as "O" and "DOWL" (Sonja Pregrad, award 2021, MSU, Antisezona), "Oh, Mary Shelley" (Silvia Marchig, MSU, Antisezona), "AGENDA" (Saša Božić and Simone Aughterlony, ZPC), among others. She collaborated as a vocalist in musical performances including "Anti-ambient Ceremonial Cigarettes" (Niko Mihaljević, Galerija SC, 29th Slavonia Biennale – recognition) and "Singing Snake (Sometimes Staged)" (WHW), as well as in the performances "Untitled" (Croatian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, Tomo Savić-Gecan, production KONTEJNER). She is also co-creator of the online performance "Found Choreography" (2020, Antisezona). Ivana leads a vocal workshop as part of the Glasno pitanje / Body-Vocal Laboratory programme by Lana Hosni and has been a member of the Croatian Dance Artists Association PULS since 2020.
Andro Giunio (HR)
Andro Giunio is a graphic designer, assistant professor in the Department of Media Design at the University North in Koprivnica, and an artist. He graduated from the Design programme at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. He has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 2012, focusing exclusively on the cultural sector. In his artistic practice, he explores experimental music and sound performance, both independently and in collaborative projects with artists from the fields of new media art, music, and contemporary dance. His interests include composition and improvisation, electroacoustic manipulation, and the exploration of digital and analogue media for reproduction. He has participated in the SineLinea New Sound Platform (2012, 2013, 2016) and performs compositions for "A Picture from Sound" on the Third Programme of Croatian Radio, both as a solo artist (“Composition for Untuned Guitar”) and in collaboration with Miodrag Gladović (“Sound of Wall”). He took part in the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery residency programme “Open Studio” (2018), performed at A Showcase of Contemporary Sound in Student Centre (2018), and composed music for the BADco. collective’s performance/exhibition “Impossible Excavations”. He has been involved in collaborative projects and performances such as “Choreography of Utopia, Movement No. 2” and “Utopia of the Extended Here and Now”. He performed at the experimental sound event “Movements” at the Zagreb Dance Centre (2021) and Kontejner (2025). He is also the composer and performer of music for the play "Soma Diva" (author: Lana Hosni), and performs music for the audiovisual expanded cinema piece "Aiomena" (co-created with Tin Dožić and Hrvoje Spudić, 25 FPS Festival, 2023). Most recently, he performed the multichannel composition "Three Streams - Sound Psychogeography of Črnomerec" as part of the project "Sound Photo of Črnomerec", Kvartovski Objektiv, at Gallery VN (2025).
Miodrag Gladović (HR)
Miodrag Gladović is a multimedia artist, musician and composer. He graduated in Electroacoustics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. His work combines engineering knowledge, punk, contemporary artistic aesthetics and DIY ethics, which over the past two decades has established him as one of the most prominent figures in the Croatian contemporary art scene, both as a solo artist and as part of the artistic duo Lightune.G. Through numerous collaborations and innovative original projects in the field of sound art, Gladović has gained international recognition, creating significant installations and performances at the biennials in Kaunas and Wroclaw, at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His transdisciplinary projects and sound performances include works such as "Luminoakustika – Lighterature Reading", music-theatre works such as "Konačno mrtav", collaborations with the STICRI and Chimeres Orchestras, spatial resonant systems like "The Lymen Cycle", and various project works for the Music Salon, Kaunas and WRO Biennials, the Goethe Institute, and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival that have been regularly awarded and presented at international festivals and exhibitions. He received a special recognition at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture for the project "Intermundia", in collaboration with the author and curator Ana Dana Beroš. His innovations in sound and visual art have been acknowledged with numerous awards, including Third Prize at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, the Audience Award at the T-HT exhibition at MSU, and Second Prize for the conceptual design of the Croatian Pavilion for the EXPO.
