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Studio Pangolin
studio.pangolin@gmail.com
Mlinarska 21
10000 Zagreb
foto: Zoe Šarlija, KONTEJNER
The land owner breeds plants in the sea of plastic in Spain.
From the family of night shade plants.
The crops are picked by other men.
As we know, the crops are toxic.
When consumed they induce dreams and hallucinations.
The land owner hallucinates processions of undead and distributed selves.
Her eyes change from compound to simple and she no longer perceives complex
images, instead her simple photo receptors detect only movement.
Her eyes change again and spread all over her skin.
Now her skin sees through its many pores.
She eats the men.
She looks for their souls.
They migrate.
This is a field of multiple destructions.
Taking a field trip to Spain’s Sea of Plastic in 2025 as its starting point, the project She Cries Human Tears imagines a narrative where the hallucinogenic toxins of nightshade plants contaminate the collective unconscious of tomato consumers. Using field recordings, fabulations and moving images, we follow several different strands – from 16th century polychrome sculpture, to spaghetti westerns, migrant fruit pickers, landowners and industrial agriculture, to think about energy, surplus, consumption, the sacred and horror. In their work artists use spoken word, sound and video.
Vida Guzmić is a visual artist working in video, sound and text. She completed her MA in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with Summa Cum Laude in 2012 and completed Women’s Studies at the Center for Women’s Studies as well as the Curatorial Platform programe in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in Croatia and Europe and she has held residencies at V2_Summersessions Test Lab, V2_Institute for unstable media in Rotterdam, KulturKontakt Austria in Vienna and fellowships at WHW academy in Zagreb and Ashkal Alwan, HWP, Beirut. Her work explores the relations between objects and subjects, gendered geography and representation through screen technologies. She works both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborations and engaged practices. From 2012-2018 she has been a member of the multidisciplinary art collective Space is Tactics. She organizes numerous audio/video workshops for young women, Roma and non-Roma school children through Studio Pangolin and is part of the collective Soundspiels with Nicole Hewitt and Ivan Slipčević.
Nicole Hewitt is a visual artist working in film, video, installation, performance and text. Hewitt completed her MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School and gained her PhD in Fine Art also at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2013. Her work has recently been concerned with memory, history and narrative as mediated through technologies of representation and preservation. She has recently completed a long tem episodic series of performance/texts ‘This woman is called Jasna’ and is now continuing her research into history and forms of archaeology in a project called Women Minor Speculations. Hewitt is a member of the sound collective Soundspiels.
Hewitt teaches in the New Media Department of Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb..
Lives and works in Zagreb and London.
Ivan Slipčević is a visual and sound artist working primarily in film, photography, video and sound. Slipčević completed his MA in Cinematography at the Academy of Dramatic Art of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has been an active member of the Multimedia Institute MAMA in Zagreb since 2000 and started the studio for sound and image zvukbroda with Tomislav Domes. He has been involved in numerous multimedia perfromances, produced electronic video scenography at numerous festivals (Videolux, Ljubljana; media.mediteranea, Pula; Urbani Festival, Platforma 981, Sloboda stvaralaštvu, Illectric funk, Zagreb; Festival Vizualnih komunikacija, Maribor; Contact Europe, Austrija; clubtransmediale, Berlin, etc.) He has been director of photography on a number of independent productions (Deturs, Galeb Vekić, Plac, A. Hušman; Booksa this is the way step inside; K. Rubinstain, Ručak, A. Hušman; In time, Nicole Hewitt, Zagrebačke priče, I.Ramljak. M.Škobalj, Sve je povezano, Lala Raščić, Oslobođenje u 26 slika, I.Ramljak. M.Škobalj …). Slipčević teaches photography and new media technology at the Department of New Media and Animation at the Academy of Fine Art University of Zagreb. Slipčević is a member of the sound collective Soundspiels.
2026_ She Cries Human Tears
Festival Gibanja, Kontejner 20/05/2026
2024_ Lovespells
Studio Pangolin installation for headphones 28/12/2024
2022_I used to be a table
performance/installation Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 27 –30/04/2022
2020_Sightings-Siteings
performance, Ganz of the New Perforation festival, Dance Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Island connect, residency program, Birca, Bornholm, Denmark
http://www.pangolin.hr/sightings-siteings/
2019_Sleepwalkers
performance at group exhibition We’re Not Like Them, Risk Change project, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia
http://www.pangolin.hr/soundwords/
https://soundcloud.com/user-912848131/sleepwalkers-mjesecarke-mmsu-rijeka-live-04102019
2018 Moonwalkers/Womanators
performance at Performance Marathon, 10th Curatorial Platform Program at KNAP
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.pangolin.hr/soundwords/hrvatski-moonwalkers/
2017_Kronoskop
broadcast on Croatian Radio Sound Images
http://www.pangolin.hr/hrvatski-zrake-kronosnop-slika-od-zvuka/
https://soundcloud.com/user-912848131/zrake-slikaodzvuka-final
2017_Dreamfish
moonlit performance on the tourist boat Kristina with audience in tow in small boats in the bay of Žuljana, Pelješac, 17. Festival Vizura Aperta- Connections, Croatia
http://www.pangolin.hr/hrvatski-o/hrvatski-dreamfish/ https://soundcloud.com/user-912848131/dreamfish-excerpt-live-zuljana-vizura-aperta-2017
2017_Witchgrass
performace at Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Student center, Zagreb,Croatia
http://www.pangolin.hr/hrvatski-o/hrvatski-witchgrass/ https://vimeo.com/233234109
2015_It shines
performance at Indefinite Articles, Studio Pangolin group exhibition, MM center, Student Center Zagreb, Croatia