2023 PUBLISHED IN MASKA JOURNAL / ISSUE: SOMATICS
EDITED BY PIA BREZAVŠČEK & JASMINA ZALOŽNIK
2023 PREVIOUS VERSION PUBLISHED IN SPRINGERIN JOURNAL / ISSUE: QUEER POSTSOCIALIST DISAPORAS
EDITED BY MASHA GODOVANNAYA
Taking Samuel Delany’s SciFi novel ‘Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand’ as a point of departure, in a joint effort with other artists we’ve labored a work which is at once a dance, fantasy, and a queer road film. Its protagonists, animated by the weirdening landscape of the Dalmatian Hinterland and enraptured by the sound of the conch shell, partake in the melding tradition of Dragon Hunting. An exploration in somatics, media translation, mimicry, and the sensuous, Dragon Hunt is a result of mutual transformability exercised between fellow artist friends and different machine learning algorithms. READ HERE →
2023 PUBLISHED IN ROT / ISSUE 1: ON IMMUNITY
EDITED AND CURATED BY SARA MANENTE
Is a work in progress taken from a larger body of text is part of Marko Gutić Mižimakov’s current research on transgenerational affect and gayness. A narrative unfolds around an enigmatic plywood board adorned with glass plates, petri dishes housing nineteenth-century hepatitis samples. An exercise in autofiction, the text explores queer relationality, artistic artifacts, and the challenge of navigating history in a disorienting temporal landscape. READ HERE →
2022 PUBLISHED IN KRETANJA-MOVEMENTS JOURNAL / ISSUE: OFF-POP
EDITED BY ANA FAZEKAŠ
IN CROATIAN & ENGLISH
Tis text tries to assemble my current thoughts on the space oddities known as Black Holes and how they relate to my artistic thinking, interests and practices, dancing between the fields of choreography, animation, somatics and SciFy. READ HERE →
2021 PUBLISHED AS A LONGFORM BY INSTITUTE OF NETWORK CULTURES
EDITED BY: SEPP ECKENHAUSSEN
Bodies – photoshopped, facetuned, beautified, deepfaked, synthesized simulated, rendered, digitized. What do these impalpable figures on the surface of the screen want from our palpable fingers holding it? Do they want something? Puzzled by the idea that images might want something (as suggested by WJT Mitchell, 2005) I started exploring possible modes of relating to digital images through a performative frame. This became ‘Digital Golem, Gesticulating Hybrids, Affective Clones and Whatever They Want’, a body of artistic processes that took shape back in 2018, during my studies in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In the three years since, the digital landscape has undergone an accelerated transformation. Posing as influencers advertising fast fashion brands DAZ3D digital avatars have taken over Instagram. Meanwhile, everyone and their grandmother has turned into a 2D video by #distantdancing on TikTok inbetween ZOOM calls. Presented here is a text which served as a companion peace to ‘a performing site for affective clones & whatever they want’. Wanting to invert the (dominant) Gestalt of the animated figure, a specific type of digital image, the text maps the processes of imagemaking, animation, choreography and somatics. READ HERE →
Featured image — GRUMEN STUDY , 2022