{"id":4846,"date":"2024-04-08T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:31:21","slug":"hdlu-launches-creart-art-in-public-space-2024-karaskvart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2024\/04\/hdlu-launches-creart-art-in-public-space-2024-karaskvart\/","title":{"rendered":"HDLU LAUNCHES CREART ART IN PUBLIC SPACE 2024: KARAS+KVART"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karas Gallery<\/strong><\/a> is an exhibition space of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists<\/strong><\/a> (HDLU)<\/strong> with a long tradition of activity in the contemporary art scene. After many years of activity at Pra\u0161ka 4, since 2018, it has been operating at the address Kralja Zvonimira 58. Recognizing the need for redefining and creating a new cultural identity for the neighborhood where Karas Gallery is located, within the EU project CreART 3.0, a collaborative artistic program titled KARAS + KVART is organized, envisioned in a collaborative and co-creation model between one local artist and one artist from the network<\/strong>. Artists will explore the neighborhood for 2 weeks, and the final result will be an artistic work or initiative in the public space of the gallery neighborhood in October. As part of KARAS+KVART 2024<\/strong> project, Luana Loji\u0107 has been invited to participate, and an international artist will be selected through an Open call.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preference will be given to artists who are interested in and express themselves through innovative visual, auditory, multimedia, and research practices, or who contemplate the function and activation of public space, responding to the concept of the artist Luana Loji\u0107, which is envisioned as a series of performative actions in the neighborhood in the format of a con-event, simulating cultural content. In its absence, the concept compensates with temporary and exaggerated performances in the form of film projections, spoken word poetry, parties (VJ\/DJ session), podcasts, and dances that convince viewers that they are really happening (e.g., projection on a factory, podcast at the market, contemporary dance around and through the square, party in one of the vacant spaces, etc.). The artist imagines ‘scenes’ or ‘illusions’ unfolding simultaneously while the content’s focus is dispersed, and the theme plays with performance options and hallucinations of unused spaces and public areas. Fictional events would rely on confusion inductions (methods of verbalizing nonsense in a monotonous tone, used in hypnotherapy to put the rational part of the brain to sleep). Themes and formats, as well as additional collaborators and performances\/scenes, would be developed in collaboration with the selected artist.<\/p>\n

Luana Loji\u0107 (1991)<\/strong> deals with applied cosmophilia and internet nomadism. From poetry for stones to live installations, videos, films, voiceovers, and live art addressing the relationship between humans and the systems, perceptions, and materialities surrounding them, her work seeks to understand natural processes beyond and within the concept of senses. She has received numerous awards for her work.<\/p>\n

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