Hybrid Relationships

For Spike’s 8th artist talk at Soho House Berlin, Nikola Knežević, stage designer for the choreographer Florentina Holzinger, mapped out the different agents involved in the design process, from dancers, stunt professionals and engineers to theater architectures and the weather. Of particular interest were the feedback loops between trained human bodies and non-human objects, the reshaping of which sustains embodied resilience.

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 at 7pm
Soho House, 10119 Berlin
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NIKOLA KNEŽEVIĆ studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy’s Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He is a frequent collaborator with the choreographer Florentina Holzinger, with whom he has worked on Ophelia’s Got Talent, which debuted at Volksbühbe in 2022; A Divine Comedy (2021); Étude for an Emergency (2020); TANZ (2019); Apollon Musagète (2017); and Attitude #1 (2017). He lives in Berlin.