The third edition of Sound Art Incubator, a production of Močvara Gallery in Zagreb, continues supporting and promoting young artists, who have not yet gained recognition, to explore sound as an instrument of artistic expression in various creative ways.

Since its beginnings in 2012/13, Incubator has focused on local young artists, supporting primarily students of Croatian art academies. However, producing and presenting artworks is not its only aim: the project seeks to motivate and encourage young artists to continue working with sound as a medium, moreover in a hybrid context. In only two years, some fifteen young artists and creative authors from Croatia have passed through Incubator, and in 2015 the project acquired a regional character by receiving young artists and students from Serbia.

This regionalization and so-far most numerous presentation of new productions has also resulted from a very good response to our call for participants: Sound Art Incubator 2015 has received conceptually mature, elaborate, and communicative proposals that approach sound in a transmedial way and through the prism of interdisciplinary research, which is also among the basic (and perhaps most intriguing) directions of development in the young Croatian art scene. In 2015, as many as 13 artists have presented their work through Incubator with eight original projects – interactive installations, performances, and environments: Tamara Bilankov, Noel Šuran, Mladen Tomić, Vitar Drinković, Sanjin Vinković, Dražen Hižak, Bogdan Stefanović, Danilo Crnogorac, Milica Šolajić, Igor Andrić, Nemanja Blagojević, Ljubica Letinić, and Lana Deban. Ranging from bugging one’s own internal organs to sound reminiscences of an intimate family past in the period of late socialism, Incubator has once again brought to the large and small halls of Pogon Jedinstvo artists who represent the future of contemporary art in this region – future that promises to be intriguing and exciting.