Schedule
30.5. - 30.8.
May 30 - 8PM
Folkestone Fringe | Anatomy of Islands: Office of Field Forensics + Anatomy of Kala
20.6. - 30.6.
Jun 30: 9PM
Francisca Rocha Gonçalves (PT): The Tunnel - golden hours
FEATURED ARTISTS
Vana Gaćina, Luana Lojić, Anica Lora Nižić, Helena Rubčić
1.7. - 30.8.
Jul 1: 9PM
Željko Beljan (CRO): Buže
Buže, on some islands known as “ears of windows” or probužoni kamik (perforated stone) in the dialect of Hvar, are stone protrusions with a circular hole in the middle, usually located at the height of two thirds of the window frame.
With this site-specific installation in the kala of Jelsa, Željko Beljan brings buže to life, following their historic connections with textile, with a simple gesture “reminding” visitors of their existence and inviting further intertwined interpretations.
3.7. - 30.8.
Jul 3: 9PM
Eglė Budvytytė (LT)| Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars
The film, shot in the pine forests and sand dunes of the Curonian Spit, is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay. The images gradually layer, alongside the intimate lyrics of a song that channels the desires of an entity shapeshifting across different genders, voices, and beyond-human embodiments. Featuring a cast comprised of local youth, alongside performer and choreographer Mami Kang, the film unfolds through a specially conceived song, choreography, and costumes. The performers’ bodies are sites of activity, though they’re often horizontal, pulled toward the earth and one another, moving through the forest, along the sand, dunes, and water.
13.7.
Jul 13: 9PM
OFFTANZ Tirol (AT): The Great Sonja Ritz Show
"The Great Sonja Ritz Show" is a durational perfomance performed by three artists in nine choreographic sequences. The performance deals with the topic of brain functions in relation to individual and collective memories and experiences. "The Great Sonja Ritz Show" is a durational performance that deals with the nature and capriciousness of memory and the fluidity of one's own biography in a humorous and bizarre way. Echoes of memory are generated from fictitious or real narratives, moving images and manipulation of artefacts, and in an abstract, humorous way the intertwining of past, present and future is created. The performance plays with how we individually use our imagination and creativity to create our memories, in the form of an unusual journey through time seen through the lens of a fictional life. The audience is invited to watch or interact with the performers themselves.
28.6. - 20.7.
Diagonal
Starting June 28, three artists (Marieke Leene, Jose Manuel Spínola and Ola Korbańska, along with curator and leader Ron van Roosmalen) embark on a 10 day journey from Águeda to Jelsa, utilizing the means of transportation of bicycles, trains, boats and ferries. From July 8 until July 20, the artists reside in Jelsa, where they work on different site-specific, performative pieces, video and pop-up installations to be exibited in kala during the Jelsa Art Biennial.
15.7. - 30.8.
Jul 15: 9PM
Jose Manuel Spínola (MX): Nature is Not Longer Destiny
Nature is Not Longer Destiny is a double video experimental piece by Jose Manuel Spínola. It is to be screened simultaneously, conceived during a pre-pandemic dance residency in Portugal. The director Jose Spínola induced the characters in a kind of hypnosis to interpret spontaneity - without a previous notion of the script - the concepts dictated as their opposite gender. The characters were free to express these concepts at will. The liberation of men and women from these roles is in process - music and dance allow us to make an integration of both feminine and masculine hemispheres in ourselves, free from conceptual interpretations, time or space. The emergence of a new state is possible, where men are freed from guilt and women from victimhood to achieve and urgent integration of genders beyond biology.
16.7. - 30.8.
Jul 16: 9PM
Ola Korbańska (PL): The Laundresses
The very act of drying laundry is a moment in the cycle of a private sphere where it is brought to public eye, fully displayed for the spectator’s eye. Due to this brief but cyclical intrusion into the outside world, drying clothes could be seen as a manifesto of incessant and invisible work carried out by women, becoming, at the same time, a mark of female visibility left in the public space. Ola Korbańska’s Laundresses brings the object, and act, of drying laundry out in the public space of Jelsa, for everyone to see and ponder what is (and perhaps should not be) private, public, as well as the words crafted on the surface of the fabric.
18.7.
Jul 18: 9PM
Marieke Leene (NL): Let's Keep it Gezellig
Birthday parties are back, but current events often leave little to celebrate. Whether it's war, the environment or other sensitive topics, guests are often requested to keep it ‘gezellig’ – cheerful. But how do you do that when the world seems to be on fire?
That friction is central to the project Let’s Keep It Gezellig by Marieke Leene. The large installation is designed as a tight-fitting space, which on the one hand represents the desire to close yourself off from the outside world while on the other knowing there are serious problems that need to be addressed. Although the work is a semi-sealed off space, it never quite allows you to withdraw completely. There is no door and it's far from easy to screen off the outside world.
Jul 22 - Jul 24: 9AM -12AM
Jelsa Manuscript: Creative workshop for children
In this free, multi-day workshop, children will learn the basics of drawing and making comics with comic artist, artist and art pedagogue Zdenko Mikša, create their own comic hero or heroine, and create their own imaginative comic inspired by Jelsa and the island climate. What is needed to make a comic? How to use your environment for inspiration and show it in a drawing? In what way are characters, stories created and shaped in comic book style? All this and more will go through the workshop and free your imagination.
They will also try their hand at making cyanotype, a photographic technique of painting with light, led by art pedagogue, painter and graphic artist Domagoj Hmura. In the process of making a cyanotype, the material (textile, paper) coated with a photosensitive liquid serves as a base for placing various plants, shells or objects, which, after exposure to the sun, leave an impression on the blue, sunlit base. Along with walking by the sea and discovering the local flora and fauna, children will use the nature around them to create their own work of art. The crafting process is simple, fun, and the possibilities for creativity and fun are endless!
23.7.
Jul 23: 8PM
RE-CONNECT ART l | Tereza Kerle feat. Tomáš Kerle: Divine Matrix
DIVINE MATRIX:
Tereza Kerle conceptualizes the virtual body of society in relation to the energy field. We are currently experiencing a stage of acceleration in the evolution of humanity as both a species and a spiritual community. The transcendence of humanity at the level of the energy field is taking place through awareness and connection to one’s own being and to other parts of the greater whole. It is community and communion that connects us to the energy flows of the planetary system. While energy is outside space and time, and is not an easily graspable, tangible evidence of the changes being experienced, the transformation is manifested in the mental field that transcends the personal plane and therefore responds more flexibly to these changes. Matter is slower, but changes take place on this plane as well.
Jul 25 - Jul 27: 1PM - 3PM
Jelsa Manuscript: Creative workshop for teens
The workshop is made up of several steps with the end result being the design of the book cover.
The movie "Cmon cmon" (https://youtu.be/GjPleaVBoQI) is used for inspiration. The film deals with the questioning of the relationship between adults and children, and calls for introspection and analysis of one's own relationship with the environment. Analyzing the narrative of the film encourages dialogue on the topic of knowing feelings and expressing attitudes towards the immediate environment. Through these questions, the participants have the opportunity to connect with their feelings, recognize them and most importantly, give them importance both through dialogue and knowledge and through creative expression. Emphasis is placed on a moment or period in their life that was of great importance to them and left an impact. Whether it is beautiful or not, the process of recording such moments and thoughts is important and has constructive outcomes.
In several stages of the workshop, participants will try the process of writing a creative essay, photographing the environment, and shaping their text and photos into a book cover.
26.7.
Jul 26: 9PM
JAB23 ft. Mudri Brk: Felispeaks and Anna Mullarkey
On Wednesday, at 9PM at Monade Gallery the festival Mudri Brk will hold their first international collaboration. Within the European festival youth fund EFFEA, co-financed by the EU, in collaboration with Jelsa Art Biennial, the performance "New Nurturing" by FELISPEAKS and Anna Mullarkey will take place.
Lead by the poet, performer and playwright FELISPEAKS, this multifaceted performance will merge poetry, music and visual art to explore the questions: what is next for women, celebrating the contributions of women to society and imagining the possibilities ahead.
FELISPEAKS is a Nigerian-Irish poet, performer, playwright, and a member of the board of Poetry Island, Poetry Collective, WeAreGriot and Artist-in-Residence with Axis Ballymun and Visual Carlow. Anna Mullarkey is an award winning composer and musician from Galway whose music merges electronic sounds with piano and vocals.
28.7.
Jul 28: 9PM
Dejan Krstić: Norm
20.7. - 30.7.
Jul 30: 9PM
Anja Leko (CRO), Andrej Beštak (CRO), Paula Płavniece (LV): Imagining Gardens
Imagining Gardens is a contemporary performative multidisciplinary production, curated by Anja Leko, Andrej Beštak from Croatia and Paula Płavniece from Latvia. It is to be presented as a moving performative piece, in collaboration with the local choir of St. Cecily. The anchor point of the performance is the research by Anatomy of Islands, who explored the lives of locals living in a narrow street in Jelsa called kala, and whose gardens, usually closed off to the public, will take center stage as the setup for the performance. The piece will be expanded on and elaborated during a 10 day residency in Jelsa, with the participating artists being: Hugo Baranger (FR), Rebecca Merlić (AT), Robert Fenrich (CRO), Sunčica Bandić (CRO) and Dora Brkarić (CRO). Imagining Gardens is a journey through the hidden, shaded part of Jelsa, meant for rediscovering near-forgotten ancient knowledge and perceiving the growth and renewal of animal and plant matter as a portal to an alternate reality.
25.8.
Aug 25: 8:30PM
Juraj Šantorić (CRO): Digesting
The performative installation Digesting looks at the increasingly pronounced problem of sea level rise, which directly affects the island's inhabitants.
A summer house, a place kept under safe human hands or Eden under a glass bell, is today an exposed utopia of apparent security. The sea rises without knocking. A small green rectangle, a window from the street into a hidden oasis behind the stone walls that offers tranquility. Only salad thrives, while the tides come from the north and south. The embossed green surface and abstract light reflection are the materialization of anthropocentric poetics dominated by misunderstanding and unknowns. To spend days in a summer house, put your feet up in the air and immerse yourself in the environment without suspecting that the environment also plunges into us?... Only a bitter taste remains in the mouth as the salt in digestion corrodes the mucous membrane of the pharynx.
30.8.
Aug 30: 8:00PM
JAB23 CLOSING - Gerta Xhaferaj (AL): 16'
16’
POP-UP EXHIBITION
AUGUST 30
8PM
MONADE GALLERY
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