Split Workshop Week 13-17.10.2025
Media and Professional Identity
This last PMP Workshop Week is all about building your professional identity, but also reflecting on what it really is and how it is shaped. You will have the opportunity to choose between two mentors that will take you on a journey to connect with yourself and your artistic practice – to find your authenticity but also to inspire you to experiment with how you want to present your work. Along with this, you will have a range of different mini-workshops on specific skills to choose from: from using digital tools, talking to media, and building confidence in your public presentation. At the end of the workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice how you present yourself and your work and get feedback from your peers and other cultural professionals.
We want to offer tailor-made and interest-oriented training so the week-long workshops will be divided into two groups, each accomodating 15 participants. Please indicate your preference in the motivational letter as part of your application.
WHO AND HOW TO APPLY
PMP NAT members can apply to this Workshop Week by sending a Motivational Letter in English (max. 1800 characters) OR a Motivational Video (max 3 mins., link to YouTube/Vimeo video) by email to your local PMP Partner organization by the end of 15 June 2025.
NOTE! Please specify in your motivational letter your preference to participate in workshop 1 or workshop 2. We try to accommodate these preferences when forming the groups the best we can. However, due to practical reasons, we might not be able to accommodate all preferences, and you may be assigned to a different group.
Important: In order to apply and be accepted for the Workshop Week, it is mandatory to also attend the ONLINE SEMINAR on 1 September 2025. To participate in the Online Seminar register here until 28 August at 12.00 AM: Registration to the Online Seminar.
Note! Please ensure that your application includes your commitment to attend this seminar.
BYOD – IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PARTICIPANTS!
For the work you should bring with you tools that enable the work:
- a) your own laptop, if you have one,
- b) your preferred digital device for capturing things, moments and places (smartphone, tablet, digital photocamera, etc). You need to bring it with you during the week, so it should be light and easy to carry around.
BYOD = Bring Your Own Device.
Benefits of the workshop
The workshop will provide a set of hands-on practical sessions to develop skills that will help participants build their professional identity, such as using digital tools and digital media to present their work. The participants will explore the notion of identity through different artistic approaches and have an opportunity to network and get feedback from other artists and professionals in their field.
WORKSHOP 1
Landscapes Within: Weaving Nature, Art, and Self
Mentor: Ivana Papić
In this workshop, we will reflect on what it means to be authentic, and how this notion weaves through our sense of identity and artistic practices. Through playful exercises in nature, we will observe the subtle, poetic landscapes we carry within. The aim is to offer a space for creative exploration, where participants can reconnect with themselves and their practice with curiosity and presence.
WORKSHOP 2
My feed brings all the curators to my DM’s!
Mentor: Ines Borovac
In this workshop the creatives will be challenged to question their online identity. In the era of technocapitalism, social media plays a crucial role in the creative market, hence silence is not an option, at least not if you want the network to remember you exist. Ironically, matching your online identity to your IRL life (In Real Life) and name is seen as “selling out”. Following the absurdist nature of navigating social media, the participants will take over the role of the pseudo influencer and through the mini series of exercises they will be encouraged to embrace the cringe and set their online persona free.
Venues
Prostor, Plančićeva 2, Split
Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hNVJWQsMfjp9inbx6
T29, Table 29, Split
Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4VJ4Hn2M8Jgx4Tu27
Program
Day 1 – Monday 13.10.2025
10:00 Meeting in Prostor, welcome coffee
10:30 Workshop presentation (T29)
11:00 Introductory lectures by mentors, Q&A (T29)
12:30 – 15:00 Free time for lunch
15:00 Our PMP journey – collaborative exercise (T29)
17:00 – 18:00 Discussion (T29)
Day 2 – Tuesday 14.10.2025
10:00 – 13:00 Choose a group: How to write about your work / Artistic interview
13:00 – 15:00 Free time for lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Working with mentors
Day 3 – Wednesday 15.10.2025
10:00 – 13:00 Choose a group: Canva / Portfolio
13:00 – 15:00 Free time for lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Working with mentors
Day 4 – Thursday 16.10.2025
10:00 – 13:00 Choose a group: Public presentation / Branding
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Group feedback sessions
Day 5 – Friday 17.10.2025
10:00 – 14:00 Speed networking
14:00 Farewell lunch
*The programme will be updated with suggestions for social and cultural events in Split.
Experts and facilitators
Ivana Papić is a Croatian multimedia artist-researcher and educator based in Berlin. She earned her first MA in conservation and restoration from the Arts Academy of the University of Split (2011) and her second MA from the Institute for Art in Context at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin (2022).
Using photography, video, sound, and objects, she creates poetic installations designed to encourage audience interaction. Since 2021, Papić’s artistic research has focused on invasive plants and urban ecology within larger socio-environmental narratives. In her ongoing project series, Wild Walnut, she explores her female heritage through five human senses, questioning contemporary concepts of identity and belonging.
Papić has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Croatia, Serbia, Germany and Peru. Alongside exhibitions, she has led poetry and speculative design workshops across European cities, deepening her practice through engagement with diverse local communities. She received the winning award at the 21st Festival of the First:(In)visible Women group exhibition in Zagreb in 2023 and was awarded the Culture Moves Europe grant from the Goethe-Institut for a two-month artistic research residency at the Krater production lab in Ljubljana in 2024.
Ines Borovac is a Croatian artist based in the Netherlands. Her work is rooted in performance but extends beyond corporeality into the broader realm of multimedia. She is fascinated by bodies and gestures, and how they influence socio-political choreographies through the lens of a young girl from the Balkans.
Drawing from her lived experience under a strongly oppressive system and toxic patriarchal norms, Borovac seeks to understand how these patterns are embodied and translated within techno-capitalist regimes – particularly in the distribution of power over marginalized bodies, the exploitation of fluid bodies (data), and the construction of identity shaped by body image consumption.
Since 2022, together with Ginevra Petrozzi she has been a part of the artist duo Xsenofemme. Her work has been exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Kunstinstituut Melly, Garage Rotterdam, Ars Electronica among others.
IMPORTANT NOTICES
Artistic work and copyrights
The ownership, copyright and Intellectual Property Right (IPR) of the artistic work created in PMP stays with the artists, with a right to publish this work as a part of PMP outcomes (e.g. Toolkit, webpage, social media accounts). Any creations will not be shared or published without permission from the artist. With all legal and contractual questions, including the ownership, copyright and Intellectual Property Right (IPR) issues, the project will follow firstly the laws of Europe and their country, secondly the Grant Agreement done with EACEA, and thirdly the Professional Media Presence Co-operation Agreement.
Photo consent
Please note, by attending the PMP Workshop week, you consent to participate in events that will be videoed and photographed for future educational use and public media dissemination by the PMP Project and project partners.