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Organ Vida presents 
Off year 2023

After the successful completion of the 12th edition of the Organ Vida festival, we present the program of the third festival’s off year, in which we continue to explore experimental artistic practices that, using various technologies and media, open up space for new interpretations and provide us with a deeper understanding of the role of the image.

This year’s program is dedicated to examining expanded cinema, or exploring the exhibition potential of moving images in the gallery context. The invited artists – Anni Puolakka, Teo Ala-Ruona, Tarren Johnson, Joel Cocks – start from their existing audiovisual works and expand them into gallery spaces through interaction with other media such as text, performance, and installation. The authors consciously play with lo-fi aesthetics and autofiction, becoming characters in their comically intricate and unconventional narratives. Mundane life situations and everyday experiences take on strange dimensions or acquire supernatural and fantastic characteristics.

At the Youth Center Ribnjak (September 25), we will present a film screening by Finnish artist Anni Puolakka, followed by a performance by the duo New Fam (Teo Ala-Ruona and Anni Puolakka). In the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery (September 26), we will present an exhibition of recent video works by Anni Puolakka and the performance/installation by Tarren Johnson and Joel Cocks.

The program is curated by Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić and Lea Vene.Design: Alma Šavar
Technical support: Marin Kovačević
Photography: Ive Trojanović

The program is supported by The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and City Office for Culture and Civil Society.