Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula
Location: Trg Pomirenja, Spomenik/Monument, Korčula
December 6, 2023
from 9 am
sound installation "Škvar/Shipyard" by Manja Ristić and Marko Vernon in collaboration with Matea Šabić Sabljić
December 7, 2023
9-12 h
sound installation "Škvar/Shipyard"
12-4 pm
Spatial installation of collected hammers, by Matea Šabić Sabljić
Support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Organization: Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, Association for the Promotion of Human Rights and Civic Activism KAP
The work of the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research is institutionally supported by the Endowment Kultura nova.
Acknowledgments: City Library "Ivan Vidali," Korčula City Museum, Vojko Tabain's Shipmodeling Workshop in Vela Luka, Club of Sailors and Friends of the Sea Miho Pracat, Lazareti Art Workshop in Dubrovnik, Croatian Maritime Museum Split in Split, Museum of Betina Wooden Shipbuilding in Betina, Technical Nikola Tesla Museum, Marica Njegovan (Kostrena).
This is how the hammers were collected in the "Ivan Vidali" City Library, the City Museum of Korčula, but also outside the city of Korčula: in the Shipmodel Workshop of Vojko Tabain in Vela Luka, the Club of Sailors and Friends of the Sea Miho Pracat and the Lazareti Art Workshop in Dubrovnik, the Croatian Maritime Museum in Split in Split, the Betina Wooden Shipbuilding Museum in Betina, the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum and the RADI/ONA studio of the artist herself in Zagreb, and at Marica Njegovan's in Kostrena.
About authors
Matea Šabić Sabljić
Born December 7, 1982 in Split, grew up in Trogir. In 2012 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Dept for Animatiion and New Media (mentor: Nicole Hewitt). She lives and works in Zagreb, sometimes in Dubrovnik, too. As she says: "With her art, I intervene in public space, with desire to impact the city, "writing the city", use it as a medium, as a place of (random) encounters, dialogues, interaction of art and every day in opposition to the reality which is oversaturated with functional and consumers' iconography of contemporary society, sometimes camouflaging her work into the language of that reality, with a goal to make, to contest, or test the communication via a poetic gesture of media transformation and language codes, an experiment of opening towards the world which I share with others, as a "longing for an estheticized dialogue".
Manja Ristić
Graduated from the Faculty of Music, University of Belgrade (2001), and then completed postgraduate studies at the Royal College in London in 2004. As a solo and chamber performer of classical music, she performed across Europe, including collaborating with world-acclaimed mentors, conductors, and performers. After her postgraduate studies, she turned to multimedia performance and research in the domain of instrumental electro-acoustic. With the group ERUPTION, as well as via innumerable cooperations with composers, visual and conceptual artists, and theatre and cinema directors, Manja Ristić performed in the USA, UK, France, Denmark, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, etc. She founded the Association of Multimedia Artists AUROPOLIS, which, thanks to her work in the fields of production, activism, and art that spanned over a decade, presented large series of cultural events, artistic productions, and international projects. She lives and works in Korčula where she manages the production house Electric Ladyland.
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda and Entr’acte. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia.
