A CHANCE ENCOUNTER (For 4 Artists, 8 Speakers, 7 Images and 16 Questions)8-channel sound work, 7-part series of images (2018/2019)
Collaboration between Bojana S. Knežević (SRB), Yvette Janine Jackson (USA), Katarina Petrović (SRB) and Karen Werner (USA)
February - April 2019 / TONSPUR_passage, TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, MQ – MuseumsQuartier Wien
Stereo mixdown_Bojana S. Knežević
Broadcasted at Radio Orange (Vienna, april 2019)

Four artists explore sounds, meanings and experiences of trust through an experimental creative approach. The idea of this piece is based on a mutual trust between the artists who are becoming collaborators by accident. An 8-channel composition is created from 4 separate pieces made individually and in dialogue, yet without prior hearing of each others' parts.

*My sound contribution to this piece is collection of voices documented at the participatory event - small retrospective under the title Let's just call it the new one, which was held at the performance hub K48 in Vienna. A large amount of text (scripts) was exhibited. With the slogan New talents wanted now, the audience was invited to interpret the texts. The gallery space divided into two rooms was reserved for rehearsal, premiere and cocktail party. Unexpected dialogues and spontaneous combinations of different scenarios have grown into a hybrid narrative.

A Chance Encounter_Bojana S. Knežević, Yvette Janine Jackson, Katarina Petrović and Karen Werner

Boa Beres_Singing Libraries / premiere @de_bouwput and @s_o_r_o__s_o_r_o #1
12/03/22 Amsterdam 

Singing Libraries are combining intuitive singing, methods of speed reading and divination practice of bibliomancy, which applies different techniques to foretell the future and find guidance by using certain books and their paragraphs.

An improvised sound performance, opened for interaction, generates new indefinite hybrid narratives with an aim to find possible answers to the floods of questions brought by the world crisis.

Book used in the performance: Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva

Texts from Feminisms Reading Room_ special thanks to Feminist Seminar @Art in Context and professor Kristina Leko @kris_leko_ , @udkberlin

Boa Beres is a semi-fictional identity and performer-parazite, who uses the power of voice to manage tension between theory and practice. She just wanted to be a pop star.

Boa Beres_Singing Libraries @DE BOUWPUT Amsterdam

Singing Libraries - A dog who ate Goethe
@ Lacuna Lab Berlin
22/07/2022

Singing Libraries is combining intuitive singing, methods of speed reading and divination practice of bibliomancy, which applies different techniques in foretelling  the future and finding the guidance by using certain books and their paragraphs.

By promoting ecologically sustainable art, based on recycling, in this performance Beres builds indefinite narratives, by using the remains of the book, a valuable relic, which was suddenly attacked by a dog.

Boa Beres is a semi-fictional identity and performer-parasite, who uses the power of voice to manage tension between theory and practice. She just wanted to be a pop star.

Boa Beres_Singing Libraries_A Dog Who Ate Goethe @Lacuna Lab Berlin

An audio intervention - the first in the series: Boa Béres - Performer Parasite - performing on your performances - and her wider project Pathology of Success. This performance was realized during an online performance Negative Poetry Human Algorithm (collaboration between Katarina Petrović, Orion Maxted and The Interactions group). Taking advantage of the unstable internet connections and data flow between her smartphone and computer, she created a sound piece with the setup which, besides these two uncoordinated audio sources, included simple microphone-speaker-effector and an audio recorder.

Boa Béres parasitizing on Negative Poetry Human Algorithm performance

Sounds of BOASZ, Boa Béres, Bojana S. Knežević and Choir of 13 Bojanas

BOASZ SOUNDS