Davor Vincze
Davor Vincze’s artistic work is characterized by a precise combination of human expression and digital systems. In projects such as manτεία and Freedom Collective, he has demonstrated how immersive formats can bring technology and audiences together in complex negotiation processes. His practice is marked by a critical view of power structures and an aesthetic that deliberately allows for ambivalence and ambiguity.
With his new project Let the System Guide, Vincze develops a performative setting that places the listeners themselves at the center. The installation confronts the audience with instructions and patterns of behavior that only become productive through deviation or resistance. Aesthetic richness arises where linearity is broken, control is questioned, and alternative forms of participation become visible. In its radicalism, this project fits in particularly well with the festival theme Fellow Futures: It shows that the future does not lie in conformity, but in the right to refuse and in the possibility of inventing other forms of togetherness.
Jug Marković & Thea Soti
For years, Jug Marković and Thea Soti have been exploring the intersections of voice and electronics. Their project Defiant Walks Barefoot has impressively demonstrated how the human voice can be reimagined as a vulnerable and radically experimental medium in digital environments. Improvisation, audiovisual intertwining, and a choreographic sensibility are expressions of a practice that renegotiates physicality and agency in the digital age.
With their joint project Trashold, they take up these approaches and combine them with elements of music theater, which they fragment and reassemble. Instead of linear narratives, a mosaic of voices and digital traces emerges, reflecting our networked present. In doing so, Marković and Soti directly connect to this year‘s festival theme Fellow Futures: They open up space for shared, non-exclusive narratives that experiment with collective forms of listening and speaking.
