performance, 2. 10. 2026, Minoriti church + installation-exhibition
The work Parallel Flows begins with an intermedial performance that transforms into an installation.
The interdisciplinary work Parallel Flows explores the intertwining of our senses and processes that we cannot control, yet are constantly present within and around us, examining various materials in their transformation, duration and shaping, unfolding before the audience’s eyes. Through the performance, the artists draw attention to usually hidden creative processes that visitors encounter upon entering the space. The live event activates the installation in the gallery, transforming it into a space of immersive experience. The artists process materials live, amplifying their sounds and performing a concert with them. During material processing, Knez simultaneously reads a text referring to the processes the audience is witnessing.
DIY solar panels are used to generate sound with candles, which Knez moves around the space. At a certain moment, we smell and hear the crackling of resin melting on a hot plate, while on the screen we see the artist pouring the molten resin into water, forming uncontrolled objects that she then arranges around the space. The artists light up analogue projectors and slide projectors containing the very materials they are working with. In the last twenty minutes, the artists perform a concert with wax. Knez melts wax live in three pots, each amplified with contact microphones. The uncontrolled melting produces sounds that Dožić manipulates live.
Neža Knez is a multimedia artist whose practice combines visual art, performance art, experimental film and analogue techniques. Through artistic research, exhibitions and film productions, she actively collaborates with artists from Slovenia and abroad. She leads workshops and regularly collaborates with the Zagreb-based film collectives Studio Pangolin and Klubvizija. Knez has received several awards, and her works have been presented both in Slovenia and abroad, including at OffScreen Paris, Škuc, +MSUM and Kunsthalle Graz.
Tin Dožić is a multimedia artist based in Zagreb. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Zagreb (2016) and in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2016). His practice is often rooted in sound, DIY practices and multimedia installations. He has exhibited and performed in Croatia and internationally, both independently and collaboratively, and has won multiple awards for his work. He runs the ongoing “Sound Art Lab” knowledge-sharing program at Multimedia Institute MaMa and is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association.
Narration: Neža Knez
Music: Tin Dožić
Sound: Tin Dožič, Neža Knez
Many thanks to: Studio Pangolin, Ivan Slipčević, Tatiana Kocmur
Production: Studio Pangolin
Co-production: Cirkulacija2, 2023
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