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Marko Gutić Mižimakov’s booth presentation is called With this massive hole in the pillow next to my head is a direct continuation of his performance Less than the sum of its parts that condensed a broader artistic exploration into a sci-fi story about two pilots aboard the КОНКОРДИКА spaceship. The story blends various textual fragments such as personal notes, diary entries, or words and thoughts borrowed from other artists; the presentation contains only fragments of this narrative, while the focus shifts to specific objects that act as traces, reviving bodies, materializing spaces and embedding sound.

Central to the presentation are lifeless, empty pilot uniforms, with the rigid plastic objects in them hinting at the bodies that might once have worn them. The soft and pliable fabric of the uniforms is marked by shells and shards – scars from the voyage across infinite space and time in the search for the Black Hole at the center of the galaxy. The pilots’ quest for the Black Hole indirectly unravels small histories of AIDS and their trans-generational aftershocks, the collage structure uniting their various real and fictional reflections.

The shells in the installation serve as a conduit that transmits parts of this heterogeneous palimpsest while simultaneously grounding the far-flung galactic points reached during the voyage. The voices in the shells are more than noise; they lure the listeners who hear a frayed fictional travelogue that navigates through collected memories, associations, and visual stimuli. The route charted by the exploration places us, here and now, into an intimate and vulnerable space of a glowing bedroom, both secured and isolated by a metal cage. The bodies have recently left it or are about to return at any moment.

Marko Gutić Mižimakov is a visual, performance and text-based artist living between Brussels and Zagreb. They are interested in shaping sensory materials through intimate, collaborative and social processes. In their work bodies, as well as digital and palpable objects, are animated, choreographed and sung into non-orientable forms via different media and processes of translation. Often borrowing from queer science fiction, they see their work as a speculative technology of mutual transformation.

They hold an MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Between May 2022 and September 2023, they took part in the artistic research program a.pass in Brussels. From 2023 to 2025, they taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Transdisciplinary New Media department at Paris College of Art. They are currently working as an external associate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

Their works have been exhibited, screened and performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Beursschouwburg Brussels, V2 Institute for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Ostrale Biennale Dresden, Antimatter BC, City Museum of Ljubljana, The Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Galerija Močvara Zagreb, Galerija Nova Zagreb etc.