Lost Sheep
Produced at the 26th European Film Festival Palić, Subotica, Serbia
resident artist, experimental cinema
An androgynous blond(e) figure meanders in frantic stop-motion zig-zag around a sun-baked wheat-field; there are glints of horror in the protagonist’s eyes, as if s/he were being chased by someone… or something. Quickly rushing through noisily reverberant corn rows, the full form of the figure is gradually revealed. Kopilović’s crisp digital photography follows the protagonist closely, rapidly navigating a landscape of saturated green and yellow colours. We eventually arrive at a puddle of mud, and now an ecstatic transformation begins. Covering the bare body with mud, limbs are revived: a magic potion, an empowered embalming. This powerful queer performance does not shy away from revealing all: closing on the serene sunset over the plains of Vojvodina, the exposed body rests exhausted in the middle of the field; a blissful unity of fragile innocence amid the roughness of nature.
Marius Hrdy, for Jigsaw Lounge
2019
26th European Film Festival Palić, invited program: Young Spirit of Europe, Subotica, Serbia
Go Deeper
Produced for Changing Climates - An Exhibition Of Reflection
University of Skövde, The Seed Box and Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden
The distortions of our gaze towards nature are generated in interactions that are increasingly mediated by technology. This idealized nature is explored in this video that takes the form of a guided audio meditation, further troubling contemporary romanticism around the topics of empathy, media, and environmentalism. This meditation can either be a path for discovery or fragment our human nature divide into a blurred, liquid image.
Made in collaboration with Rebecca Rouse and narrated by Brendan Padgett.
2020
IDKF2020–Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
The Shipwreck Tunnel in the Baltic Sea, Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden
2019
FU:BAR Glitch Art Festival, program: Time-based Exhibition, AKC Attack, Format C, Glitch Artists Collective, Glitchet and SKART Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Changing Climates - An Exhibition Of Reflection, University of Skövde, The Seed Box and Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden
Diffraction
I bring you some water lost in your memory, solo exhibition, Kresge Arts Center, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The moving image is flexible and fluid, like water and light, it is all-embracing and ultimately formless. The materials of water, light, and digital media join forces here to push queer narratives and their boundaries into self-proposals, more entangled with the matter that make us matter.
Sound created in collaboration with Matias Brimmer.
I am the one who waits
I bring you some water lost in your memory, solo exhibition, Kresge Arts Center, East Lansing, Michigan
Lovers talk to each other in a glitched virtual conversation. They can only talk with quotes from Roland Barthes' “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments”.
2020
IDKF2020 - Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2019
Storytelling: Time-Based Dialogues with Communities, screening and performance program, MSU Broad Art Lab, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Etruska Waters em: O Tombamento da Republiqueta
2017, video and super-8, 3:30 minutes
Produced during the 13o Curta 8 - Intl’ Super-8 Film Festival, Curitiba, Brazil
resident artist in super-8 production, cinematographer and editor
A fake trailer to a fictitious movie about Etruska Waters: a shamanic, repulsive, super-queer social justice warrior. An homage to Brazilian Marginal Cinema.
John Waters Award, II Afronte – Festival for LGBTQIAP+ Cinema 2021, Natal, Brazil
2023
20o Filme Livre Festival, program: Malditas, Cultural Center Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo, Brazil
2021
II Afronte - Festival for LGBTQIAP+ Cinema 2021, Natal, Brazil
2020
Todo se deshace. El centro no se puede sostener, invited program, Casa Bosques, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
27o Mix Brazil Festival for a Culture of Diversity, program: DYSTOPYA BRAZIL, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
13o Curta 8 - Intl’ Super-8 Film Festival, Curitiba, Brazil
Gas Station
Document / Extension, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL, USA
Found objects from a demolished gas station are the screen of an observational documentary. Workers look for recyclable materials within the scattered remains of the site.
Student Research and Creative Discovery Conference, presenter, Doudna Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA
Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL, USA
Private GIFs
Document / Extension, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL, USA
A collaborative sculptural piece that displays GIFs made in private spaces and intimate life moments. Personal friends and the public were invited to submit their series of photographs, which daily fed the projection with new GIF animations.
Pretexto Performance
Pretexto Performance, SESC Institute, Joinville, Brazil
resident artist in performance and video
This performance and video experiment explores how performance art reflects the times, situations and spaces it is created in, and how it can persist within its residues and documentation. A group of artists utilized the SESC galleries and its surroundings in the city of Joinville as an experimental, collective laboratory, with the common interest of pushing the limits of performance and intermedia practices. Video artist Marcos Serafim created a series of experimental videos documenting the process and interfering in the performative environment.
photographic documentation by Jessica Michels
Pretexto Performance - First Night, complete documentation, SESC Joinville Art Gallery, Brazil
Pretexto Performance - Second Night Part 1/2, SESC Joinville Art Gallery, Brazil
Pretexto Performance - Second Night Part 2/2, SESC Joinville Art Gallery, Brazil