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Mia Ribić (HR)

In collaboration with Šimun Stankov, Espi Tomičić, Cosme Fodor & Ira Rumora

Collaborative performance

2025

Presentation of the LIVING ROOM 2025 residency as part of the 60th Zagreb Salon: Choreography for the Finish Line

KUĆĆA, Nova cesta 128
24 October 2025, 19:00

Production: KUĆĆA

Curators: KUĆĆA (Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović & Luja Šimunović)

TURBO IGRANKA

Want to dance, but don't know the moves? Release them through Turbo Igranka.* It’s KUĆĆA’s treat and it becomes part-club, part-stage, and part-laboratory for one evening. From tension and introspection to chaos and euphoria, each song opens an invitation to a new rhythm, like that verse from your favorite song that makes you move. Turbo Igranka is a trigger for new bodily experiences that open up the temporary existence of the affective metamorphoses of turbofolk. What exactly is happening, you will discover when you enter.

The project is developed as an interactive performance installation that, based on the affective zones of turbofolk — anger/discomfort, vulnerability/longing, passion/power, and joy/collectivity — creates a space for exploring collective experience and physical responses. Through an audio-visual experiment, we explore the boundaries of dance, choreography, and collective performance, which arise through participation and shared rhythm, and the way in which pleasure and collective experience can open up space for questioning social norms. Instead of a presentation, the project creates what it is about on the spot, transforming the audience into an active entity that embodies, reinterprets and transforms different aspects of the beloved and contested turbofolk. What emerges between pleasure, shame and belonging is a space of play and tension, a space of coexistence. And when you think it's over, a surprise, one that turbofolk never had before, awaits you.

*turbo igranka, refers to a specific type of Balkan party characterized by loud music, group singing, euphoria, distinctive appearance and clothing, and the chaotic energy typical of nights out involving turbofolk; beyond just the party itself, it also encompasses a social and emotional ritual that emerges from this scene.

The work was 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.

Mia Ribić (Zagreb, 2000.) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and researcher working at the intersection of visual communication, interaction design, and social practice. Her work explores themes of empathy, identity, and marginalized narratives, often using language as a tool to navigate power dynamics and foster dialogue.

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