Tanja Vrvilo is a performance artist, filmologist and film curator whose work connects radical artistic practices and education with a special interest in the politics of aesthetics and film and theatre avant-gardes. She is a co-author and performer in numerous multimedia performances with visual artist and performer Damir Bartol Indoš and the House of Extreme Music Theatre. In 2007 in Zagreb, she founded Film mutations: the festival of invisible film, an international festival on the politics of film curatorship. She is the author of many essays and publications in the field of visionary cinema, as well as translations of filmological essays for magazines, books and radio shows, and also a curator of a series of regular and festival film programs for various dispositifs. 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 of the Arts Academy in Split. 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’s award-winning art project for an innovative collaborative approach.
