Schachtophonic Workshop for Children: Schachtophonia For Two Shoes

Based on Janko Polić Kamov’s Aphorism No. 6: On one foot life wears a cothurnus, whilst on the other a clown’s slipper. wears a cothurnus on one foot, and a jester’s slipper on the other. (La vita calza da un piede il coturno e dall’altro il socco.)

The workshop is led by performance artists Damir Bartol Indoš i Tanja Vrvilo.

The working method includes creating graphic scores for voice and instruments, introducing participants to sound instruments and their extended elements – such as vocal effects and springs placed inside sound boxes – as well as exploring text creation and the design and performance of graphic scores.

The project implementation includes: presentation and research-based activities in which participants, through a hands-on approach, have the opportunity to explore the schachtophones – original instruments created by Damir Bartol Indoš – and discover sound as one of the most exciting artistic media of today.

This activity is designed for children, aiming to introduce them to the magical world of experimental music and the unique instruments that Damir Bartol Indoš and Tanja Vrvilo use in their work. All instruments are made up of numerous components, with springs as a recurring and playful element – a recognizable leitmotif in these sound installations.

Guiding the children through the instruments, the artists will engage them in conversation and, through an interactive approach, allow them to try out the instruments and experience the sounds that emerge when several individuals play together

These workshops are designed for active participation in a unique process of creating experimental music and a collaborative sound-and-stage performance, using sound as a creative medium.

Invitation to SCHACHTOPHONIA FOR TWO SHOES:

The Children Schachtophonic Orchestra is coming to your festival and is inviting new young schachtophonists to join the workshop on eight small children's schachtophones! Everyone is welcome!

If you want to become a schachtohonist answer the call of our and your schachtophonic voices! We are a schachtophonic orchestra that needs each and every one of you for collaborative drawing, writing, and creating schachtophonic triangles and cuts for your red, blue, yellow, or green schachtophone instrument! After this workshop performance, the schacht covers will close... only to reopen again – for your own performance!

After this workshop performance, the schacht covers will close... only to reopen again – for your own performance! Whoever misses this chance to play the small schacthophones – with springs hidden beneath metal schacth covers, stone speakers, and two wooden shoes – misses it forever!

Forward to our Schachtophonia!

Damir Bartol Indoš

Damir Bartol Indoš is a performer, performance and visual artist, he creates experimental musical instruments – sound sculptures Schachtophones and graphic scores. He was a member of the neo-avant-garde theater group Kugla Glumište (The Sphere Theatre), with whom he created and performed a series of influential actions and performances in the period from 1975 to 1982. During the 1980s, as the initiator of a hard fraction Grupa Kugla, he made a series of group and solo performances. He established DB Indoš House of Extreme Music Theatre and in the last 20 years he’s been creating experimental theater works and performances in co-authorship with performance artist and filmologist Tanja Vrvilo for various performance and exhibition spaces. He participated in many international festivals of contemporary theatre, he was a permanent collaborator of Theatre &TD, a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists as a theater director and The Croatian Association of Fine Artists of Applied Arts in the scenography section.

He was the winner of the City of Zagreb award in 2009 for his contribution to the alternative culture of Croatia. He won the first prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb at the MSU–THT competition in 2011 for the sound sculpture Schachtophone. For the theater work Tosca 914, he and Tanja Vrvilo, were awarded at the Prague Quadrennial in 2015 as representatives of the Croatian selection. In 2024 he received the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatre given by Croatia's Ministry of Culture and Media.

Tanja Vrvilo

Tanja Vrvilo is a performance artist and performance maker, filmologist and film curator whose work connects radical artistic practices and education with a special interest of the politics of aesthetics and film and theatre avant-gardes. In the last 20 years, she's been working as a co-author and performer in numerous multimedia performances with visual artist and performer Damir Bartol Indoš and the House of Extreme Music Theater. In 2007 in Zagreb, she founded Film mutations: the festival of invisible film, an international festival on the politics of film curatorship, that has been held in Zagreb in Rijeka. As the Head of undergraduate film studies she was teaching at the Béla Tarr film.factory in Sarajevo and now she teaches at the Department of Film and Video, and Department of Theatre Arts - Acting of the Arts Academy in Split. She is author of many performance texts, essays and publications in the field of visionary cinema, as well as translations of filmological and essays for magazines, books and radio shows, and also a curator of a series of regular and festival film programs for various dispositifs

As an independent artist, she is a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists, the Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists and the Croatian Association of Film Critics. Together with DB Indoš and other Croatian artists, she was awarded at the Prague Quadrennial in 2015 as a representative of the Croatian selection, and the joint work with DB Indoš was also presented at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019 as part of Ivan Marušić Klif’s award-winning art project for an innovative collaborative approach.