About
The performance and video company FREAQUENCY is led by writer, director, dramaturg, choreographer, experimental theatre and filmmaker, vegan and activist IRENA ČURIK. We create interdisciplinary avangarde projects that express values of free and open society while researching art mechanisms of representation, expression, group dynamics, individual and group psychology, politics of organisation, distribution and transformation, crisis of change, death of the author, death of process, adaptation, resistance, and the limits of identity and state. Our mission is to awaken to love and solidarity through the creation of nonconformist art. Revolution can only be non-violent.
"Anyone who decides to organise my life for me can never be my comrade." Alfredo M. Bonanno
"Anyone who decides to organise my life for me can never be my comrade." Alfredo M. Bonanno
Irena Curik (1983/Zagreb), writer, director, dramaturg, choreographer and experimental theatre and filmmaker, holds a Master's degree in Dramaturgy from the Academy Drama Arts in Zagreb (2010). She creates and produces experimental theatre, dance, performance, video, radio and interdisciplinary spectacles in Zagreb, Croatia and internationally. From 2006 to 2013 she was a regular contributor to the Third Channel of Croatian Radio and the culture and performance editor on free Student Centre Radio (2008 - 2010). In 2011 she was a fellow of ArtsLink (Yale School of Drama). From 2011 to 2013 she was a Croatian representative in apap net. In 2014 she participates in the artist residency programme Zero+ in Teatro Marinoni, Ospedale al Mare in Venice, where she starts a series of 12 site-specific performances designed for OAM and Venice. From 2014 to 2017 she was artistic director and curator of International Festival from Alternative Theatrical Expression FAKI . In 2018, she joined BEK Art and Social Centre where she ran and organised a DIY art and life workshop programme. In the same year she launched the 1st International Festival of Street and Light Artists in Makarska. She writes TV and film scripts, art projects, articles and other. Her performance and video works have been shown in Zagreb, Rovinj, New Haven, New York, Berlin, Salzburg, Linz, Kortrijk, Cologne, Venice, Rome and Corrientes. Her work is supported by the City of Zagreb and the City of Makarska.
