Shadow Casters

Shadow Casters (Croatian: Bacači sjenki) is a non-profit organization from Zagreb (Croatia) working as an international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary cooperations in intermedia arts in urban context.

It was founded in 2002 by artists Boris Bakal and Željko Serdarević, with Katarina Pejović, Stanko Juzbašić, Vanja Žanko, Srećko Horvat, Sandra Uskoković, Leo Vukelić and other collaborators.

[2] As an organization it is focused on intercultural dialogue, creating projects and platforms for cultural exchanges between Croatian and international artists and art professionals, and questions concepts of individual and collective identity.

Its projects encourage discussion about the nature and contradictions of the ongoing globalization processes and deals with social, political and cultural topics that point to important problems in society.

[3]Shadow Casters realized a number of domestic and international projects creating performative, educational, multimedia or socially engaged (most often) time-based works and questioning relations between man and space: as a study of cities, as poetic-detective urban journeys Shadow Casters;[2] as an interweaving of the material space of the performance and the real time of the actor with the virtual space and the delayed time of the film theater in the trilogy based on Kafka named Process_City (Process_in_Progress, Ex-position, Vacation From History); as an entry into the microcosm of a skyscraper and a multidimensional discovery of its past, present and future Čovjek je Prostor: Vitić_pleše, a multimedia archive of urban events that become the tool for studying the hypertextuality of space Re-collecting City/Re-collecting Time; theater trilogy On togetherness (Explicit Contents, ®evolution: Master Class, Male/Female-Female/Male), multimedia installation History of Vacation, etc.