Saturday (September 6) is the last day of the Zooming Fluid States festival that will be filled with amazing Fluid States performances and artistic installations along the Breakwater (Rijeka, Croatia). To each participant, visitor and viewer the elements will be provided to creating their unique image or story from the event. The performances will call for participation – for creating an event, a referential frame, or an interpretative field. They do not simply display creations – they become place of creation.

We start the walk along the Breakwater together at 6 PM and we move towards the end of the Breakwater, of performances, of the festival, but only to celebrate with a party.

 

PANAMA/Panama
PERFUMIN’ PANAMA/Parfemiranje Paname
THE CANAL/Kanal

Panama Canal is the primary shipping route for world trade between the Atlantic and the Pacific and provides Panama with great economic stability. Isthmus of Panama is the home of the Panama Canal and a part of strategic geopolitical history rooted in transoceanic trade and cultural migration. A presenter and performer from Isthmus of Panama will bring a sprinkle of that canal in a smell of perfume.

NORTH ATLANTIC/Sjeverni Atlantik
SISTERS HOPE/Sestre Hope
POETIC EDUCATION/Poetično obrazovanje

At Zooming Fluid States Sisters Hope will create a sensuous, immersive and interactive performance-installation manifest at a boat by the seas. In their poetic shapes they have traveled from the far North to initiate dialogue and share dreams for the future of our educational systems.  Sisters Hope operates in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system, currently on the large-scale project Sisters Academy, the school of a sensuous society, which will also manifest as a part of The North-Atlantic Cluster at Psi#19 Fluid States. Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Gry Worre Hallberg and Anna Lawaetz. In the fictitious performance-universe they personify the twin sisters – headmistresses, explorers and seekers of peace.

JAPAN/Japan
THE OTHER’S FOOL PARADE/Parada luda
DANCE PROCESSION/Plesna procesija

A Butoh-related walk-parade-procession on the Breakwater, The “Other” Fools’ Parade, will lead individuals in slow motion with still moments along the breakwater, and back. It should be like a pilgrimage and return. In light or white clothing, participants will move to a sound of a local instrument, while everyone else will be welcomed to join this procession. Before the start, in a pre-workshop, individuals will learn how to be a lead movers out along the breakwater, catching the moves of the traditional Japanese Butoh dance. A brief introduction to Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazui (two founders of the butoh) film, will be made, as well.

GREECE/GRČKA
RADIO FREE SANTORINI/Radio Slobodan Santorini
DISASTER MESSAGING/Poruke katastrofe

Neighbored by Crete in the extreme east of the European Mediterranean, the Santorini cliff-stead stands some 500 kilometers from the coast of Lybia and 200 kilometers from the coast of Turkish Asia. The Santozeum museum building sits high in the town’s urban fabric, its highest room, and in turn – a vantage point over the panorama of the island – currently organized as a radio broadcast room, an aural lighthouse. Searching, countering and porting messages via a radio network – as the island would have been connected with news of volcanic prognoses or events outside the Greek sphere in the 50’s – this project hosts underground radio artists and avant-garde audio projects aiming to recreate unseen spaces aurally. In the bow of a vessel, Radio Free Santorini will be played for the audience in Rijeka at a full volume through an augmented sound system.

LEBANON/Libanon
Waves of existence: Crossing the Mediterranean 1963-2014/Valovi postojanja – Prelazeći Mediteran 1963-2014
IN FLUX/U fluksu…

Nadra Assaf will be telling the story, through a poetic verse, performance and dance, of her history with the Mediterranean. As she tells the story she moves in the space covering a specified area.  Throughout the story she deposits ‘pieces’ from the Mediterranean (stones, sand, water) into the Croatian space. Her chosen photos of Mediterranean will accompany the performance.

PHILLIPINES/FILIPINI
REHEARSAL FOR DISASTER/VJEŽBA ZA KATASTROFU
GAME OF PATINTERO/IGRA PATINTERO
We live on tilted earth…/Živimo na nakrivljenoj zemlji…

Rehearsal for Disaster is a video installation combined with a flow of interweaving actions by three artists caught up in a disaster of one form or another. The video is a post-apocalyptic silent dance movie about a group of survivors who go through a corpo-spiritual boot camp as a form of active response to their recent experience of massive grief and loss. This adventure helps them to have a perceptual shift and makes possible a new consciousness that would guide them to the road of reconstruction. The ‘rehearsal’ on the video turns into the real thing as the artists play out a Philippine game of tag (Patintero) with members of the audience who might be enticed to participate.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/Bosna i Hercegovina
FOUR FACES OF OMARSKA/Četiri lica Omarske
IDEOLOGICAL (UNDER)CURRENTS/Ideološke (pod)struje

Four Faces of Omarska is a research platform exploring strategies of memorial production from the position of subjugated experience and knowledge, excluded from public memory and history. The project title comes from four constitutive layers in the history of this mining complex near Prijedor, Bosnia. In socialist Yugoslavia Omarska was established as a large mining enterprise organized according to the principles of socialist self-management; during the Bosnian war Serbian forces turned this mine into the largest internment and torture camp in Bosnia; after the war Omarska was privatized and sold to the steel transnational Arcelor Mittal; and in 2007, the grounds around the mine/camp were used as a film set for the Serbian First World War spectacle “St. George Slays the Dragon”. Throughout the years, the group has gathered various video, photography, text and audio material, the parts of which will be presented and discussed at Zooming Fluid States festival.

COOK ISLANDS, PACIFIC/Otočje Cook, Tihi Ocean
ARA MOANA/Ara Moana
PATHWAY TO THE SEA/Put do mora

Ara-Moana is the pathway to the sea and the pathway in the sea. It also refers to the glimmer path that forms a line of light from land to horizon reflecting both sun & moon. As a processual, site-specific installation, ara-moana will be located and dispersed on the edge of Rijeka’s harbor. The installation, sited in one or two shipping containers, will create a potent environment for sonic and video art and ignite a series of events and durational performances along the breakwater from dawn until dusk and into the night. As the pathway to and on the sea, ara-moana responds to both the breakwater and the painted yellow line on its concrete causeway, which provides a navigational tool along the boundary between inner harbour and outer sea. The performance will be completed by a ‘pig dinner’ for further storytelling amongst the participants.

BAHAMAS/Bahami
Subdivision I (Kvarnerski Zaljev, Croatia)/Podjela I (Kvarnerski zaljev, Hrvatska)
DEEP ANATOMY/Duboka anatomija

Referencing Borges’ story of the emperor’s map, and Baudrillard’s philosophical analysis of this text, this work casts a meticulously constructed grid of plastic floating just underneath the shifting seascape that it occupies. As the tide reaches its full ebb they appear to almost reach the surface, but never quite do. Undulating with the swell, they attempt to map or colonise the unfixed, transient nature of the sea with the rigidity of land-based navigational systems and agricultural subdivision. The work anticipates the Deep Anatomy cluster in Psi#21 Fluid States directed in the Bahamas by Sam Trubridge. Sam Trubridge is a performance designer and artistic director for the multi-disciplinary performance platform, The Playground NZ Ltd. Sam’s work has produced new investigations into the dynamic relationship between performance and audiences/communities with the ground-breaking festival The Performance Arcade, and performance collaborations with sleep scientists and freediving athletes.

AUSTRALIA/Australija
CIRCULATION/Cirkulacija
WALK ON THE SALT/Put po soli

For one day, visitors from throughout the world will be invited to bring salt from their own regions to perform exchanges and to recount and reimagine the implications of salt and of themselves.  Circulation is an open-ended live performance installation exploring changing interrelationships in the movements of people, value, matter and ecological cycles.