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Zagreb Edition

Homesick Festival presents a series of performances that will take place in private homes. Led by Vienna-based Japanese artist Michikazu Matsune, the Zagreb Edition is presented by Ganz New Perforations and features artists Bruno Isakovic, Vedrana Klepica and Nina Kurtela. Upon booking, a pair of artists visit your home to perform in person – exploring the environment of private homes as a stage for unique encounters and shared experiences!

Artists present performances inspired by their own history, childhood, everyday life, wishes and dreams. Interventions vary from dancing in the living room, to protesting in the kitchen, and to philosophising in the bedroom among others. Homesick Festival offers opportunities to (re)connect with our own experience of home, our current location, life situation and our state of being. Book us, and invite your friends, family and neighbours to make it as a shared experience!

Artists

Michikazu Matsune

grew up in the seaside town of Kobe, Japan. Much of his time as a child was spent with his brothers and friends at a nearby beach. After graduating from High School, Michikazu travelled to Europe and eventually moved to Vienna, Austria, where he has lived for the past 20 years. Being a foreigner, people repeatedly ask if he has ever been homesick, a question which he always used to answer with “no”, until recently. Michikazu is a performance-artist who works in various formats, contexts and spaces such as stage, museums, public and private spaces. His work, often containing poetic absurdity, reflects our globalized society playfully and critically. Ever since he was little, his favourite fruit has been watermelon. Website

Nina Kurtela

was born in Yugoslavia and now lives in the same place – in Croatia. For the last 15 years she spent lengthy periods of time in Vienna, Paris, Helsinki, Tbilisi, Taipei, Portland, Brno and also lived for almost a decade in Berlin. At times she felt excited, inspired, curious, overwhelmed, dislocated, lonely, nostalgic, happy and sad. Her experience of displacement and the precarious life of an artist, led her to question notions of identity and belonging within her work. Through years of practice, living between Berlin and Zagreb and working with both dance and visual arts, the material and immaterial, she realised that home is not only a physical place. She started to feel more and more at ease in those in-between-spaces, creating her own personal imaginary space of existence. Website

Vedrana Klepica

was born in a small working-class town in continental Croatia, where the sunsets often had an aurora-borealis type of quality. This is mainly due to the phenomena of sunrays fractioning and crashing with cloud-like formations of smoke and sulphur coming from the local petrochemical industry. She quickly understood how there is always poetry to be found, even in the gloomiest and toxic of contexts, and she decided to note it down on paper. This was mostly done in radical formats of performative text which she would energetically perform later for herself - simultaneously being both the performer of the text and its only audience. A couple of years later, she decided to study dramaturgy, and since then has been continually depressing audiences at home and abroad with her plays and performances. Wikipedia

Bruno Isaković

is a performer and choreographer who grew up on the edge of the Balkan Peninsula where people first act and then think, a place where inconsistency is the only thing that is consistent. As a young boy he disassembled AA battery driven mini-fans on which he placed the body parts of his sister's Barbie dolls. He watched them spin and shoot across space. Eager to understand how this all works, he made his first crucial life-error, which was to study at an Electrical Engineering High School where he learned nothing about spinning body parts. The future did not seem bright, but good luck found Bruno at his first electro party in the 90s’ where he successfully split the atoms in his head and discharged his body through jumps and turns on the dance floor. Since then, Bruno graduated with Contemporary Dance from the Amsterdam School of the Arts and has been creating body/dance performance works since. In these performances he is often searching, finding and losing sense in his quest to answer questions like how we manage to get where we are and become who we are. His performances have been presented at festivals in New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo and Hobart. Website

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Credits

Homesick Festival Zagreb Edition is realised within Ganz New Perforations Festival with the support of Croatian Ministry of Culture, Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport as well as DANCE ON TOUR AUSTRIA – a project by Tanzquartier Wien in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.