This proposal addresses the lack of significant research in the field of animation and its potential to impact on the health and wellbeing of young people in stressful situations in healthcare contexts particularly in waiting spaces for attending patients and accompanying family or caregivers.
The “Healing Nature” project recognizes the power of nature imagery and the integration of calming environmental elements into hospital spaces through various media, with the aim of supporting the mental, physical, and spiritual health of individuals and the hospital community.
Everyone loves stories. Narrative is a powerful tool for addressing and reflecting upon pivotal aspects of the human condition, with the potential of inspiring and aiding viewers through their personal dilemmas. Although the most popular narrative style is linear storytelling, this pattern has little to do with how people really receive information. Interactive media differ from traditional media in that participant can actively engage with and influence the outcome of the story.
“Trembling” presents the video work HOME in an adapted and somewhat modified form. It involves a camera’s journey through the space of a miniature home which is projected in a new way, adapting to a different location: the backstage of the theater, which gently distorts and fragments the projection.
Memory has become an important catalyst in pushing animation to new and unchartered territories, often balancing on the edge between film and installation.
This micro-presentation highlights the narrative aspect of animated installations — animation works screened in museums, galleries, and spaces other than single screen-based theatrical venues.
The Family Portrait animated installation was developed as an integral part of my PhD research at NTU/ADMSingapore in 2019 however, the production of this work in traditional puppet animation technique took a fewmore years to complete.
Across 7 projections, this animated installation depicts a poetic, dark, and somewhat humorous social observation, in which family ties and relationships are broken down and dissected to pieces.
HOME is an art video recorded inside a fragmented miniature space of a diorama. In the video, this space appears as a compact and idyllic whole with a breath of warmth and coziness of a sunshine-flooded home. However, in reality, this is a cluster of small, broken, dissected walls and facades alike those that the artist uses in her animated puppet films.
MEMENTO is based on the (un)spoken experiences and memories of my grandmother Lea Balas Vidakovic, who was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14. The exhibition consists of animations, videos, soil, cakes, suitcases, documents and artefacts.