SISYPHUS PINK

Author: Martina Nevistić
Performance: (Sisyphus) Sara Barbieri, Petra Chelfi, Pavle Heidler, (MsPink) Martina Nevistić
Design: Dora Đurkesac
Dramaturgy: Rona Žulj
Costume: Martina Nevistić, Sara Barbieri
Video and light design: Luka Matić
Editing: Miro Manojlović
Photography: Dora Đurkesac, Luka Matić
Music and sound design: Luka Grubišić-Čabo
PR: Amela Pašalić
Organization: Martina Nevistić, Amela Pašalić
Production: O.N.E.
CO-production: DOMINO/ Perforations festival

For author Martina Nevistić, starting point for multimedia project Sisyphus Pink is myth about Sisyphus. Sisyphus as absurd hero, a symbol of persistence and nonsense, which at the end we should imagine happy. Second point is a character of MsPink, as someone or something that imposes continuous importance, symbolizes consumption society, consumerism, and while essentially not important at all, actually absurd. This absurdity of continuous and circular movement takes the principle of loop, which becomes the basic structure of building up video. In the video, there are three main performers, whose movement is again characterized by repetitive sequences, failings in and out, divergence to and from, and MsPink as a protagonist of a concept. Further point of this project is that video projection is triptych, but broken into two, that is four parts, connected but spatially split: first video is spatially broken into three parts and three separate projections. Regardless of separation between the frame and the place, projections inter-operate and communicate embracing the space. Second video connects that three in one unity, but the location is completely separated from them. Sisyphus questions the absurdity of the movement, which does not start up and does not start ahead, but always returns to the beginning, with higher instance (MsPink) who operates it all. As well as the persistence that always leads to the starting point, and the will that restarts. Likewise, on the visual level, it is questioning systems of fragment in the service of the whole, as the whole in the service of the fragment. On the level of the viewer, and in tradition of works of O.N.E., this project questions the visual perception: fractured, but in the same time perceived material, what will bring the whole new meaning with spectators’ effort of connecting it.

Martina Nevistić. Author, performer, pedagogue. She is founder of O.N.E. Art company where she is doing her author work in the field of performing arts and multimedia. She is permanent member of Zagreb Dance Company. She finished her studies in Organization and management in Zagreb and at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), Austria; also she was a scholar of Nomad dance academy program. Her work is continuously supported by HIPP/ Zagreb dance centre and DOMINO/ Festival Perforations.