Ivana Tkalčić is a multimedia artist and art researcher with master’s degrees in Economics and Fine Arts. She has taken part in international residencies and masterclass programmes, received several awards for her work and has regularly exhibited her art at home and abroad since 2016. Her latest exhibition, Astronaut(s) without a spaceship, addresses the ethical, political and environmental implications of ‘space races’ through performance. She also conducted workshop-performances on managing energy sustainably in stressful situations with the local community. Ivana’s experiment engaged spectators to discover alternative modes of perception, revealing art as an imaginative, creative, and inclusive discourse and practice.