THE WOUND THAT WRITES, THE BODY THAT SPEAKS

Presentation of artistic research through a workshop approach by Kristina Marić

Sunday, May 25, 2025, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., SomaHut Festival

The author will present her artistic research focused on recording traumatic experiences within the body. She will speak about the process of creating the performance lecture Howls to the Stars, presented as part of her solo exhibition Inside There Is an Animal, in which she interprets affective and aggressive behavior patterns as direct consequences and catalysts of trauma.

By referring to collective, universal places, she simultaneously intertwines deeply intimate fragments of her own experiences. The artist perceives the awareness of bodily experience as a guiding factor in the process of creating artistic work.

In the encounter with the audience, she will combine narrative, collective, and bodily approaches, emphasizing moments of transition from the cognitive to the physical. Through the meeting of story and bodily experience, she explores the fragmentation of trauma and the possibilities of its transformation.