Choreography of Utopia, Movement #2Tin Dožić (HR), Sonja Pregrad (HR)

14/8/2019

21—22 h

Korčula Home of Culture (Korčula)

Intermedial performance, 2018

Dance artist Sonja Pregrad, designer and musician Andro Giunio and new media artist Tin Dožić coauthor this synesthetic work about touch, which is simultaneously a concert, an audiovisual performance and a dance piece. Choreography of Utopia, Movement #2 is a moving image, a hum and a perception of the frequencies emitted by different media coming in contact with each other, that is, touching the sensory and affective body of the viewers. For the festival Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Love they offer an iteration of the work adapted to the specific space of the Cinema Korčula.

Choreography of Utopia, Movement #2 shapes interdependency as a utopian orga(ni)sm; it is a performance that arises from the immediate experience of touch. In the performance we look for the intersections in which movement, sound and light touch one another, where friction between them becomes a set of oscillations. We observe them as one, a body of minerals made up of different pulsating textures and intensities, a body of an animal with various limbs in motion, the body of utopia of different consistencies. The viewer’s immersion into the experience of viewing, listening and touching actively vibrates, becoming a part of this synesthetic body. “By posing the question of freedom, Choreography enters an intriguing paradox, drawing the boundaries and limitations of body, space and time and touching the membranes of materiality within which it pulsates. The impression prompted by the synesthetic nature of the performance, lends room for both a sense of freedom and a feeling of entrapment, absolute openness and claustrophobic fullness…”, Ana Fazekaš, Kulturpunkt.hr

Tin Dožić (HR)

Tin Dožić graduated in Psychology from the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb and in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His work Songs for the Anthropocene (Pjesme za antropocen) received the Golden Watermelon Award at the Media Mediterranea Festival in 2018. He was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award in 2019 and is an alumnus of the 2019/2020 WHW Academy. As a member of the collaborative team comprising Sven Sorić, Hrvoje Spudić, Sara Salamon, and himself, Dožić received the Young Artists Award at the 55th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the visual identity of the 30th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ). As one half of the artistic duo Dožić & Udovčić, he received the same award at the 58th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design for the project Forest Cabin (Šumska koliba).

Sonja Pregrad (HR)

Sonja Pregrad (1980) is a dance and intermedial author, performer and teacher and holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her work focuses on the interdependency of media, reappropriation of performative formats, the (non)materiality of dance and the choreography of relationships. In her work, movement is always conceived as the contextualized and relational gesture. During the last 15 years, she has authored numerous performance pieces and collaborations presented in Croatia and abroad. She won the Croatian Association of Drama Artists Award in 2018, as well as the Croatian Association of Dance Artists
Award for directing the Improspections festival and the collective performance Glacier, and she was also awarded a special recognition at the 26 th Slavonian Biennale for the exhibition/performance Carnival tent rusts in the Evening Breeze. She teaches at the Department of Animation and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and runs the arts organization Fourhanded.