Bojan Gagić

Bojan Gagić’s career began in the late 1980s with performances and activities linked to the work of the Neue Urform group from Sarajevo and the art groups Kokowa, Rotor and Clair Obscure from Zagreb. In the late 1990s, thanks to the MAPA (Moving Academy for Performing Arts) platform, he began working on various theatre projects, taking part in the production of plays, creating multimedia content, sound and light design, and collaborating with artist Josip Zanki on a range of projects that explore attitudes toward death (Mirila, Enciklopedija mrtvih, Mrtvi ste?, Kako objasniti mast mrtvom Beuysu?). He has produced a number of exhibitions, installations and performances in Croatia and abroad. He is regularly involved in sound art and field recording, publishes poetic writings in literary magazines and was the chief technician in the productions of various theater, film and music festivals. He is the composer of film scores for mostly local authors of experimental and animated short films, the light and sound designer for plays and has produced several experimental short films himself. He developed luminoacoustics, a performance technique converting light into sound using the photovoltaic effect of solar panels, with Miodrag Gladović. He co-founded the Sine Linea, a platform for new sound expressions from Zagreb. Over the years, he has received a number of awards for his work; he won the 3rd prize at the international Guthman New Musical Competition for musical inventors, and a prize for the multimedia content of the Croatian EXPO pavilion in 2012, followed in 2014 by the audience award at the Croatian Contemporary Art Competition – T-HT@msu.hr, and the special award of the panel of the 2015 Venice Biennale for his sound and light design in the installation by architect Ana Dane Beroš.