Find a Hidden Grooove at Krater, to join a session on Affective Infrastructures: a traveling library, a manifesto on m(Other)ness, and a situated practice Four Waters in the village of Ljubanje, Serbia.
Your hosts at the Hidden Grooove:
@maja_smrekar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores belonging, becoming, family, and home through ecofeminism, interspecies relations, and critiques of technology-driven ideologies. Her practice spans performance, installation, video, workshops, lectures, and text, and has been presented internationally in major contemporary art institutions. She is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.
@4_vode (Four Waters) is an independent household, meeting point, and refuge in Ljubanje, Serbia, initiated by visual artist
@jprljevic , who works with drawing, moving images, and installation exploring ecologies of fear. She co-founded
@heklerke , an artist-run transnational platform that fosters critical and experimental examination of hospitality and conflict. Through collective rural activities, building, programming, craft, and exchange with the local community, Four Waters nurtures hospitality, collective care, shared knowledge, curiosity, imagination, collaboration, and love for the land.
@jovana___timotijevic , a Belgrade-based researcher and activist engaged in spatial justice struggles in areas of urban planning, housing and land management. Her work combines organising, educational work, policy and theory analysis, grounded in the intersection of critical urban theory and feminist politics. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, exploring feminist readings of contemporary urban land governance.
@helen_hglnd is an process facilitator, art scholar and operational manager at The
@kulturellauniversitetet at Linnaeus University. She works to support meaningful encounters between art and science through residencies, exhibitions and collaborative projects. Her main interests lies in how sensous learning, creativity, and collaboration can foster individual meaning and systemic change.