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
Choreography of Utopia, Movement #2Tin Dožić (HR), Andro Giunio (HR), Sonja Pregrad (HR)
Intermedial performance, 2018
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.
Andro Giunio (HR)
Andro Giunio is a freelance graphic designer, Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Design at the University North in Koprivnica, and an artist. He graduated in Design from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb and has been working independently since 2012, primarily in the field of culture. He is the author of numerous publications, catalogues, posters, music releases and visual identities. Among other projects, he designed the visual identities of the music festivals ŽednoUho and SuperUho (2013–2015), the Croatian exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale "Horizon of Expectations", and co-authored the identity of the Croatian exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial Ivan Marušić Klif: "Sliding into the Unknown" (2019). He has been the resident designer of the experimental film and video festival 25 FPS. He has also created visual identities for festivals and exhibitions organised by the association Kontejner, including "Extravagant Love" (2019), "Touch Me Festival" (2020) and "Device Art" (2021). He received the award for Best Music Album Design at the TRESK #6 festival in Ljubljana for "Wanda & Nova Deivator: ARP 339", and a special commendation at the Croatian Design Exhibition 19/20 for the visual identity of the 14th 25 FPS Festival. He is the author of the publications "Time To Listen, Space To Experiment — Perspectives from Re-Imagine Europe 2017–2021" and "Arc-Hive — Case Studies and Life as an Object". Since 2019 he has been a member of the informal collective M28, collaborating with designers and artists including Sven Sorić, Tin Dožić, Lana Grahek, Sara Salamon, Hrvoje Spudić, Luana Lojić, Vanda Kreutz and Jason Mullhausen.
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.
