The Vibes Are Off
Talk & Book Promotion
12/06 20:00h
SKD Prosvjeta Gallery
Preradovićeva 21-23, Zagreb
With: Tihana Bertek, Barbara Gregov, Joanna Walsh, Günseli Yalcinkaya & Lana Pukanić
Participants: Tihana Bertek, Barbara Gregov, Joanna Walsh, Günseli Yalcinkaya
Moderator: Lana Pukanić
Vibes Are Off emerged from a vague sense of unease—the feeling that something is wrong, difficult to explain yet impossible to ignore. Gathering compulsive interpretations, manic oversharing, and intellectual spirals, the publication moves between paranoia and curiosity, critique and confession. Featuring essays by Al Hassan Elwan, Cem A., Tihana Bertek, Barbara Gregov, Maximilian Lehner, Lea Vene, Joanna Walsh, Steven Warwick, and Günseli Yalcinkaya, alongside a visual contribution by weecolors.
Joanna Walsh a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. The author of twelve books, her publishers include Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury and Verso. She is a 2020 Markievicz awardee in the Republic of Ireland, a 2017 UK Arts Foundation fellow, the 2018 Anthony Burgess Centenary Writer Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a 2024 DAAD Artists in Berlin awardee (refused in solidarity with Palestine).
Günseli Yalcinkaya is an artist, curator and writer based in London, whose work explores how technology shapes myth. As Contributing Editor at Dazed Magazine and former External Research Associate at Moth Quantum, Günseli investigates internet folklore, tracking how emerging technologies – from AI to quantum computing – give rise to new ideologies, digital superstitions and collective fantasies. Her writing has appeared in publications for Aksioma, Ars Electronica, Julia Stoschek Foundation, LAS Art Foundation, HEK Basel among others.
Tihana Bertek is a critic, writer, editor, and curator based in Zagreb. She studied English and Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. She has collaborated with Organ Vida as a translator for many years; she was an editor-in-chief of the online magazine Voxfeminae.net; and she facilitates a feminist photography reading group at Spot Gallery in Zagreb. In her free time, she watches dog videos on Instagram.
Barbara Gregov is a curator, writer, and editor based in Zagreb, Croatia. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She is part of the curatorial team of Organ Vida Festival, where she focuses on image-based practices, particularly at the intersection of visual art, digital culture, and popular culture. As a writer and editor, she has contributed to feminist media platforms including Vox Feminae and Krilo, writing mostly on film and pop culture.
Lana Pukanić (Zagreb) studied Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature, and graduated with a thesis on girlhood. She was one of the founders and editors of the feminist website Muf, and, after its demise, the feminist website Krilo. A selection of her texts and essays entitled “Teenage Girls and Other Monsters” (Fraktura) was published in 2020. She works at the Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, and cooperates with the club Močvara. She’s trying to write her first novel.