Projects

The solo performance stemming from the chapter on the duality of existence explores the tension between physical and metaphorical realities. 

This chapter is an evolution of the concepts explored in the piece performed by Marta Rak in
October 2023 at Exportdrvo in Rijeka, where the themes of territory and identity were first
introduced and are now further developed through the lens of duality. 

Performed at the ninth Periskop - contemporary dance and circus festival organized by Prostor Plus in Rijeka, Croatia

The program is implemented in cooperation with the Domino Association within the framework of the Croatian Performing Arts Network 2024 project, which is supported by the Kultura nova Foundation.

https://www.periskopfestival.c...

In this project, the author examines the ways in which the experience of virtual reality intertwines with the relationship to the territory, either physical or metaphorical, as well as borders as an integral part of that territory. Some limits, such as those given by our physical limitations such as the reach of our field of vision, we are easily aware of. However, how do we react to the limits that, for example, our tolerance gives us? At all levels of living, we rule our territory. How does this territory merge with our environment and in what way is it imprinted on it, are some of the main questions that Marta Rak and her colleagues dealt with in the creation of the project “Appropriations: territory”. Appropriation, that is appropriation, encroaches on the notion of territory as a complex and multifaceted aspect of human psychology and social behaviour. The project invites the audience to reconsider prejudices about belonging and to reflect on the multiple nature of the space in which we live.
In this multimedia project, whose performance combines dance and film as an integral form of communication with the audience, the author exposes the audience to a dynamic relationship between the performance itself and projections as digital representations of different concepts of belonging and identification with the territory. “Appropriations” have another role to prove the inseparability of experience and territory. They are a project in the beginning, in which the existing film scenes will appropriate new, “appropriated” scenes filmed during the performance of the play itself, and thus each subsequent version of the play will become an original version of the film in the making. Combining elements of different disciplines into a complete experience, the author creates another reality, trying to encourage the audience to, through a kaleidoscope of new information, become aware of the notion of territory not as a given dogmatic constant, but as a change that is constantly deconstructed and reshaped.

Choreography, videography, performance and direction: MARTA RAK

Sound design and co-direction: ANDRO MANZONI

Filming and editing: JOSIP CVITEŠIĆ, BRUNO LOVRENČIC & SARA BLAŽIĆ

Filming of underwater scenes: DAVID ŠEGIĆ

Video Mapping: DAMIAN SPORČIĆ

Scenography: ANA PETKOVIĆ

Costume design: MANUELA PALADIN ŠABANOVIĆ

Light design and co-production: ALEKSANDAR JOVANOVIĆ

Visual design: IVA RUŠIN

Sponsored by:
City of Rijeka, Bayern Innovativ: Stipendienprogram Junge, Kunst und neue Wege, Iwanson International

- to nourish the appreciation of curiosity within each student or professional while keeping my own as a guide, I strive to connect in interacting with ideas that stimulate greater awareness of different phisicality aspects.  While entering the realm of exploration in understanding of notions we experience movements' potential and its immense expressive capacities. - M. Rak

Teaching in a vocational education program at  Iwanson International or teaching workshops, my goal is to share my moving experience while facilitating one.