Viktorija is an interactive installation consisting of a single player video game, projected on a LED screen on a football goal with a hand-made net in a reinvented penalty area setting.
The idea behind this work was to produce a game that changes the rules of a football game and focuses on the new forms of influence on society through game. Through innovating the concept of a football game, Viktorija tries to critically examine video games and football in their different historical and social contexts, while focusing on overcoming boundaries and stereotypes and creating an artistic game using new technologies in a co-creative, inclusive way.
Thinking about the amateur-professional debate, both in sport, art and other areas, the artists try to talk about the role and significance of amateurism, characterised by participation for the love of it. That is why digital avatars who play the role of a goalkeeper are in fact 3D scanned volunteers, put in the role of “stars” from football games, with limited skills, but great love for the experiment, game, fun and art.
The installation is accompanied by a 3D live performance (with the participation of the sound designer and the professional commentator), where the visitors are invited to play the game themselves.

Željko and Rebecca collaborated in 2022 on the project Truth Is a Forgotten Memory, which was produced during the residency Ignorance Is Strength, organized by the European Union of Academies.