As part of an evening of audio-visual art, Manja Ristić will present significant collaborations in the field of ambient installations, inspired by the exploration of the soundscapes of the underwater and above-water environments of the islands of Korčula, Mljet, and Silba, as well as other regions like the Atlantic Ocean. During the one-hour program, we will listen to and watch the installations: "Synaptic Reveries" (co-author Mario Kolarić), "Good Water" (co-author Aleksandar Lazar), "Calypso's Dream" (co-author Mark Vernon), and "Patient Love" (co-author Aleksandar Lazar).
November 25th, 2024 at 19:00
Free entrance
The program is supported by the Centre for Culture Korčula and the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Department of Education, Culture, and Sports.
Program:
Synaptic Reveries (premiere) —— Manja Ristić & Mario Kolarić (11')
Dobra Voda —— Manja Ristić & Aleksandar Lazar (19')
Calypso's Dream —— Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon (15')
Patient Love —— Manja Ristić & Aleksandar Lazar (25')
About the work "Synaptic Reveries"
Manja Ristić and Mario Kolarić have collaborated several times in the field of experimental audio-visual arts, including performative interventions, exhibition works, and digital releases. The new collaboration involves the production of a digital release, symbolically inspired by the synaptic space – a scientific model of synapse function where the "communication" between two neurons takes place, a space where information exchange occurs, which is a process any subsequent psychophysical action depends on.
The creative approach of Manja and Mario meets in synesthetic minimalism, her almost organic need to "sound" his drawings, and his deep dedication to the resonant nature of the image. Observing Mario's works, Manja perceives them without hesitation as graphic and/or abstract scores; listening to Manja's music, Mario effortlessly creates illustrations.
Ultimately, the context in which the work is created relies on the concept of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who extensively studied the state of ataraxia – a state of lucid calmness. This complex ancient philosophical concept has various meanings, and "Synaptic Reveries" will adhere to those that bring mental-emotional balance and support sensory ecologies that oppose the cacophony of everyday life, informational saturation, and the commercialization of human perception and attention.
"Synaptic Reveries" is our contribution to the anxious discourse of the Anthropocene and the "noise of the world" due to rapid technological evolution, which alludes to the importance of spatial ecology and raises not only the question of what a human or interspecies interaction, even further, human-technological interactivity based on artificial intelligence, actually brings into the "space" of exchange but, above all, what it leaves behind.
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