Work description
TWO AND A HALF MINUTES OF FREEDOM (work in progress)
Music: Božidar Trkulja / Dorotea Radušić
The audio graffiti Two and a Half Minutes of Freedom is conceived as an international and deeply personal micro-collaboration between the author and native speakers who, each in their own language, lend meaning to the words bridge and freedom, while also addressing the Zagreb bridge itself — the one that connects the Old and the New Zagreb — broadly, steadfastly, and almost vow-like.
The work encompasses 23 world languages, selected in the spirit of personal friendships and acquaintances, but also in accordance with the title and what it represents, through a simple choice — very freely.
You are therefore invited to freely cross the bridge and address it in the way you know best, perhaps only for a brief moment — in your own language.
Bridges always listen. The work is still in progress.
With deep respect for the Sava River, for freedom, and for all bridges, wherever they may be,
Božidar Trkulja
Languages and speakers / project collaborators:
Croatian – Božidar Trkulja
English – Brian Ewen
French – Chloé Roux
Polish – Mihael Bobrowski
Swedish – Stephanie Milina
Turkish – Furkan Agkün
Portuguese – Claudia Backes
Greek – Evi Dimitradou
Latin – Maja Čubranić
Syrian Arabic – Hala Marouf
Lithuanian – Agnė Adomėnė
Estonian – Chintis Lundgren
South Korean – Dasum Kang
Bulgarian – Ivanka Knezović
Tagalog (Philippines) – Rozel Lanag
German – Oliver Schütze
Italian – Andrea Martignoni
Dutch – Noa Tegeletija
Hebrew – Anja Čonkić
Albanian – Vulnett Sanaja
Slovenian – Kostja Bobnar
Danish – Jesper Hedegaard Petersen
Macedonian – Ivan Ivanovski
Acknowledgements:
With gratitude to everyone who exposed their language, their voice, and their time, and shared them so selflessly and devotedly with this work.
Special thanks to Ivan Ivanovski, who allowed me to create the work freely at the very end of the bridge, and to Vladimir Sokačić, who supported me in its technical realization.
Audio zapis
Fotogalerija
Author
Božidar Trkulja (1975), graduated from School of Textile, Leather and Design, studied theology at the KBF Zagreb, since 1997 has been working as a journalist, editor and film critic (Vjesnik, Forum, Lider, Zapis, HTV).
He is the author of the award-winning stop-motion puppet films In the Beginning of Time (2012) and The Last Quest (2017).
He is the author and screenwriter of the comic book Academy of Miracles
(2013) and author of the exhibitions: From Comics to Animated Film (2013), Puppet in Croatian Animated Film (2014), The Last Quest: Fantastic Exhibition of Puppets and Scenography (2017) in Zagreb, and Puppet Time - Exhibition of Fantastic Actors (2018) in Rijeka, Square and Phase (2018) in Varaždin, and the project-exhibition Time of the Heart (2019) in Zagreb, a collaboration with 50 Croatian artists and publishing of Reanimation Herald – a newspaper for arousing culture and contemporary art.
He participates in the work of the jury and the selection committee of film festivals, stop-motion animation workshops for children and adults, writes screenplays, short stories, poetry, makes puppets and scenography, and composes music for animated and experimental films while in good mood.