Public Feeling


Imaginarium is the result of a three-day workshop through which the participants were invited to question their feelings in public space and to use power relations, discomfort, and anxiety as a potential for empowerment through the creative process. Spačke (Elena Apostolovski, Petra Čargonja) deals with marginal perspectives in art and culture through workshops, exhibitions, discussions, interventions, and various artistic actions. This workshop and exhibition took part in the Festival of Queer and Feminist Culture in Rijeka, SMOQUA’s edition on the topic of Taking Space. The workshop was hosted by Pariter association and facilitated by Spačke.


Appropriating the marketing language that aims to sell false values and beliefs in a material form, we enhance the truth about the extent of our power in public space: we can deal with our feelings but are not able to affect the aggressors or conditions we coexist within. Something should change, and we invite the question - how?

With this Imaginarium, a critique is placed on consumerism for offering a substitute for real well-being and changing the conditions in which we live, fetishizing objects and attributing to them properties of emancipation.

PUBLIC FEELING is an attempt to delve into one’s own experience of public space - which ultimately turns out to be shared by many of us.  

Petra Čargonja & Elena Apostolovski

Ema Puceković
Vanya
Catherine 
Milica Denković
Spačke









2023


photos: Tanja Kanazir

photos: Tanja Kanazir

Imaginarium is the result of a three-day Public Feeling workshop performed by the independent initiative Spačke, through which the participants were invited to question their feelings in public space and to use power relations, discomfort, and anxiety as a potential for empowerment through the creative process. 

Vanya Zeal
She’s Everything - Punk(ture) boot
Deprogramming Piercing (Deprogramirajući Piercing)

Lineup that speaks to the duality of personhood. For the individualist in you: magical footwear that builds confidence without sacrificing comfort and agility, for the revolutionary: inconspicuous accessories which negate a lifetime of social conditioning within a 12 m radius. By entering this exhibition space, you entered its range and with this you are now being subjected to deprogramming from patriarchy and all other forms of supremacy and social hierarchies. 

Spačke 
The Hoop space vest
The hoop space vest keeps everything unwanted away from your body. It materialises the boundary of intimate space, which is often disrespected and/or violated by friendly men, mistaking it for a public area. 




Milica Denković
Puma Lady Run - Forever Faster Than Him
  1. 7 miles - jump & sound (alarm)
  2. Smokey Illusionist - pepper spray, fog and sound (alarm)
Running shoes that help you escape unwanted situations with strangers in the middle of the night.


Ema Puceković
kaciga f8, balans cipele, sat
The objects serve as a way to divert awareness from thoughts to the body

photo: Tanja Kanazir