Ines Borovac: Performance Artist

A long-standing interest in my work is tracing the harmful power dynamics encoded onto marginalised bodies by juxtapositioning traditional and digital systems of control. My practice is rooted in performance, however it expands beyond the physical into multimedia. Inspired by the lived experience of oppressive traditional systems in Balkan, I am committed to understand how forced normativity present in folk forms evolves and morphs in order to ensure its existence within digital systems. Torn between Western and Eastern cultural influence, I use my body as a vessel between visibly violent gestures of tradition and imperceptible violence of digital. I use my training in Social Design to build a methodological approach to the topic of my research. In this process it is important for me to be inspired by my personal experience but also to connect it to the community experiencing the same socio-political struggles. Not standing behind the idea of a solitude genius, it is important to me to connect with communities in my process, collaborate with experts from different disciplines and build bridges of knowledge exchange. Within my work I often collaborate with choreographers, somatic specialists, creative coders, music producers among others. Shifting between absurdism, vulnerability, spectacle and roughness, my work materialises through live performances, multimedia installations, moving images and performative objects. The driving force in my work comes from the belief that digital systems of control are often reconfigurations of existing traditional forms assimilating to the new context and the key to unlock this connection is by tracing the symptoms of power coded onto bodies