Lecture by researcher Kristina Pranjić on Adriatic avant-gardes
10.2.–10.2.2026.
Kristina Pranjić, researcher-in-residence at Kamov, will give a lecture titled “Water as Method: Eco-Transversal Mapping of Adriatic Avant-Gardes” on Tuesday, 10 February, starting at 6:00 pm.
Kristina Pranjić is a researcher working at the intersection of avant-garde history and theory, intermedial art, and the environmental humanities. Her work maps transnational and so-called “peripheral” avant-garde networks in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. She investigates how artistic practices, through experimental forms, media, and collective modes of action, critically engage with social and political issues. Her particular interests include early ecological ideas, visual, performative, and material practices, as well as questions of language, defamiliarization, and alternative epistemologies.
In the lecture, she presents the ADRIATIC AVANT-GARDE project and proposes “water as method” for a new reading of avant-garde artistic practices in the Northern Adriatic. Rather than relying on national frameworks and linear genealogies, the lecture starts from the material and infrastructural conditions of the sea. Through three temporal layers—the historical avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde, and contemporary intermedial practices—it demonstrates how ecological and material sensibilities emerge as situated practices: through imaginaries of the sea, more-than-human relations, and critiques of extractivist regimes. In the final part, the author presents fragments of her research process in Rijeka within the Kamov Residency Programme (archives, conversations, fieldwork) and outlines how mapping can render local cultural ecologies visible and encourage reflection on how ecological layers are inscribed in artistic practices.
Support: Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS)
Photo: Julia Pristovnik / Kamerat