ANTOLOGIJA KRIKA III: AFTERPARTY

audiovisual research project

Premiere: monday, December 22, 2025 at 19.00
Cirkulacija 2

Concept: Kristýna Peldová
Choreography, co-authorship and execution: Tina Habun, Urška Centa, Kristýna Peldová
Camera: Enya Belak, Sašo Štih, Borut Bučinel
Installation and post-production: Enya Belak, Borut Bučinel
Music by Eduardo Raon, Kristijan Krajnčan
Video Installation: Enya Belak & NEST Collective
Production: NEST Institute
The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture.

About the project

Anthology of the scream III: Afterparty concludes the two-year trilogy in which the collective NEST deals with the subject of space scarcity – physical, creative and existential – which strongly shapes the work of artists in the contemporary system of culture production. The first two parts responded to this frustration through confrontation with the dance constricting performance spaces and treating the body as a carrier of pressure, desire and resistance. In two years of research, the collective has moved from a struggle with restrictions to their acceptance and transformation into a source of inspiration. The third part therefore takes criticism conditions as a site for the emergence of new fascinations and an opportunity to experiment with a new performative experience – for both creators and viewers.

Afterparty completes the trilogy by returning to the joy of creation as a form of work – movement as freedom and art as an unlimited space that can transfer from physical to other manifestations. The project provides insight into current artistic work in precarious conditions, through abstraction, playfulness and imagination. Research moves into the audiovisual field, studying how camera, environment and music transform the figure of performative presence, how the living body is imprinted in the film and how film transforms its impression. The camera doesn’t just function as a documentation tool, it functions, above all, as an equal co-creator of performative moment changing the rhythm, perspective and meaning of movement and opens new dimensions of physical and imaginative activity.

The recording took place at various Ljubljana sites whose specific qualities the performers exploited through improvisation in relation to materials and motifs from the previous part of the trilogy.

The result is two experimental films that together create a multilayered study
of transition between the living body and its film image. The first, feature film by Enya Belak uses collage structure, layering images and visual experiments that transform choreographic logic into film. The second short film by Borut Bucinela delivers the author’s autonomous view of the body, process and space.

The trilogy, resulting from the need to reflect uncertainty, economic fragility and permanent lack of creative space, in the final part of Afterparty distances from criticism and unites the body, camera and space into a single organism whose gestures, images and sounds explore the image of artistic freedom – freedom that can also arise there, where the physical space is missing.

An open discussion with the authors of the trilogy will also take place. After two years research and creative processes, will offer a space for sharing experiences, mutual reflection and audience questions. The purpose of the discussion is to enable a common reflection of independent artists in culture and dialogue on topics that emerged during the trilogy. The evening will end with music, celebration and socializing that will connect artistic presentation with informal sharing and the joy of sharing common time.

The video installation

Part of the presentation is also a visual installation created from video projections in Cirkulacija 2. The installation develops the visual world of the third part of the trilogy and uses light, textures and material elements that create spatial film scenery. The visitor is thus not a passive observer, but moves inside constantly changing space.

The video installation expands the trilogy into an immersive form and allows physical and sensory entry into its audiovisual universe. It functions with multichannel projections, the interleaving of which creates a living structure that embodies film images into the spatial dimension. The project is presented in the form of a screening evening, which allows for a multi-layered reading and intensive sharing of the creative process.