Tullio della Cortiglia
Installation
2026
KUĆĆA, Nova cesta 128
13th November 2026 19:00
Production: KUĆĆA
CRASH DUMMY
Entertainment and warfare share a technological bloodline.
The crash dummy is built to take the hit. Here, the hit is digital. The animatronic installation absorbs not impact but content, data, a sacrificial receiver taking in what was meant for you. Its skin is cute, a soft disguise slipping past defenses that violence would trigger.It doesn't just take the hit. It filters it like a prototype firewall, feeding off the internet, deciding what gets filtered out. What survives becomes its choreography.
The work produced within the LIVING ROOM project – a residency and production platform launched in 2023, focused on experimental, multimedia, and research-based practices, with particular interest in works exploring alternative modes of feeling, thinking, and being.
Realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Zaklada Kultura Nova, and the City of Zagreb Office for Culture.
Tullio Della Cortiglia (b. 1996) is an Italian–French artist working at the intersection of drawing, video, sculpture, animatronics, and pyrotechnics.
His practice is rooted in handcrafting and explores the subversion of festive devices, analog special effects, and the intertwined histories of entertainment and military technologies, revealing the operative systems that shape contemporary culture.
His works unfold as urgent fragments of spectacle within unstable environments, reconfiguring the shifting frictions between urban and rural territories, where processes of territorial appropriation, behavioral adaptation, and collective inhabitation are constantly renegotiated. Impulses such as play, spontaneity, and violence intersect, opening onto speculative forms of popular experience.
