Bureaucratic Machine Audio-visual Installation | 2020 Collaborative work with Giacomo Calzelari

Created during the Izola-Bologna artistic residency (KUD Boja & Association Ottovolante), Bureaucratic Machine is a clinical exploration of systemic dehumanization. Dressed in sterile white and obscured by paper-mâché masks (made by Giacomo Calzelari), the performers engage in a ritual of stamping and signing endless piles of paper.

The work serves as a rhythmic, visual metaphor for the administrative mechanisms that govern human existence. It is deeply rooted in the tragedy of the "Izbrisani" (The Erased) in Slovenia—a bureaucratic act of mass "civil death" where thousands were illegally stripped of their legal status. Through repetitive, mechanical movement, the installation highlights the terrifying ease with which a human life can be reduced to, or erased by, a single sheet of paper.