portfolio Salamon Luna 2023
I am a scene designer, painter and I like to say that I creates spaces of experience.In addition to working with various companies, I design exhibitions, enjoy researching aquarelle painting and transferring movements and colors from paper to (stage) space. As a scene designer and costume designer I was working on several independent and permanent theater productions in Serbia and Romania.
I’m mostly on the road between cities. It often happens that the atmosphere of the place I am in coincides with what is happening inside me. This is exactly what gives me extra zest and the urge to create. It leads me to put what is in me, although still unknown at that moment, onto the surface of the paper. Something that I experience, directly from my environment, I feel has a connection with what is happening inside me. That’s the moment I start working.
LÁTÓHATÁR / HORIZON
The performance entitled “Horizon” explores the well-known yet untold story of a human fragment on the road to self-knowledge in the thorny labyrinth of constantly changing life circumstances.
Performers: Ana Stefanovic
Akoš Njari
Deneš Debrei
Doti Debrei
Heni Varga
Pedrag Vitner
Petar Mitrić
Tibor Takács Faki
Playwright: Tamas Olah
Composer: Konstantin Stefanović
Music Bitef smrti
Animation: Edita Kadirić
Scene design: Luna Šalamon
Lighting design: Boris Butorac
Video: Boris Kopilović
Patron: National Foundation for Culture
january 2023
SPRING AWAKENING
Directed by: Armin Ricz
Genre: children’s tragedy
Translated by: Geyza BÁNYA I
Dramaturg: Tamás OLÁH
Music: Ervin PÁLFI
Set and costume designer: Luna SALAMON
Visual: Márton Pál GÁSPÁRIK
Set and Costume Designer Assistant: Valentina VENCZEL
Stage Manager: Lehel RIGMÁNYI
Prompter: Katalin TÓTH
https://nemzetiszinhaz.ro/play/a-tavasz-ebredese-2/?lg=en
january 2023
COLORIBUS NOSTRI
Colorobus nostri (lat. Our color) is a kind of theatrical-ritual and dance experiment and is one of the ways to find answers to these questions. During the process that lasted more than a year, a specific project was developed that constantly changes its form, and thus transforms into a new experience for both spectators and performers during each performance. Created to function as an organism, this performance changes its rhythm, dynamics, and the way it is performed with each performance, and above all because it is conditioned by the performers’ improvisations. The initiators of the story are the theory of colors, automated drawings with closed eyes, and entries from diaries of the performers themselves, which were later translated into movement. The colors we drew and researched tell us stories that happen in Vojvodina, Japan, in childhood and in the ocean, in dreams, underground, and in us. Colors tell stories from our personal but also collectively unconscious experiences. Colors tell the stories of all of us because they are all our colors.
https://nyarimozi.com/en/coloribus-nostri-english/
2021/2022
COLLAB COMMONS
Collab Commons program authors: Lara Badurina, Filip Jovanovski and Aleksandra Pesterac. Project assistant/performer: Luna Šalamon
Workshop participants in collaboration with the program line authors:
Filip Novak (Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
Kaja Resman (Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
Katarina Kožul (Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
Marko Mrvoš (Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
Tena Njegovan (Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka)
Aleksandar Jovanovski (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje)
Bojana Isijanin (Faculty of Architecture, Skopje)
Denica Stojkovska (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje)
Deniz Ajdarevik (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje)
Dimitar Malev (Faculty of Architecture, Skopje)
Sandra Nikolovska (Faculty of Architecture, Skopje)
Stefan Tankov (Faculty of Architecture, Skopje)
Tamara Džerkov (Faculty of Architecture, Skopje)
Marija Varga (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad)
Nađa Vukorep (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad)
Bojan Kaurin (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad)
Maja Bogdanović (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad)
Dušica Ilić (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad)
september 2022
Collab Commons is a project line of the Biennale of Scene Design used to produce new content in collaboration with other artist collectives and institutions. Two such projects will be presented at the Biennale of Scene Design 2022, to be held in Novi Sad as part of the Kaleidoscope of Culture within the European Capital of Culture.
The collaboration between the Sub-Department of Arts and Design of the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad, the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and the Faculty of Things that Can’t Be Learned in Skopje will bring together students from Croatia, North Macedonia, and Serbia to research Yugoslav modernist legacy and how it can be viewed today. Each student team will research selected architectural works of modernist legacy in their respective city: the CHC (the Croatian Home of Culture, formerly the People’s Home at Susak) in Rijeka, the now derelict District building in Skopje and the Dnevnik printing house in Novi Sad. These structures have been recognized for what they are – a modernist legacy keeping alive and preserving the spirit of the shared and collective experience of the Yugoslav idea. All three were constructed during a period when the society’s ideology was reflected in its values and how they were devised as a system, focusing, in particular, on the protection of the public good and the preservation of public spaces. Although still standing, physically speaking at least, their utilitarian function is either entirely lost, or lives on in other ways, different from city to city. Collab Commons program authors: Lara Badurina, Filip Jovanovski and Aleksandra Pesterac.
Photos: Marija Beljkas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpGrJGMgr4A&t=5s
https://bisd.rs/eng/collab-play-2/
Performance/Workshop: Skopje Brutalism Trail
The workshop Skopje Brutalisam Trail was held at the Faculty of Architecture, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje from 28thto 30th of September. The theme of the workshop refers to the Brutalist architecture in Skopje, important legacy that represents the act of world solidarity in rebuilding the city after the catastrophic earthquake in 1963.
The COST Action workshop adds to ongoing research by a group of local artists and architects- activists that work by means of public performances as action to provoke, educate and raise public awareness about the importance of this building, fighting against plans to demolish it and thus erase its social, cultural and architectural value. Therefore, the aim of the workshop was to explore the meaningfulness of architecture in relation to cultural production of urban space.
Skopje Brutalisam Trail lasted three days and included 32 participants: 22 COST members coming from 10 different countries, 5 local cost members, as well as 3 guest-members and 10 local students and young researchers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAw4bEnh0Q&t=6s
september 2022
KRILA / exhibition july 2021
Producer and curator of an art event-exhibition called Krila, by the artist Valentina Vencel, which was held on a field at the end of the village of Belo Blato.
“Iwillmakeanexhibitionforyou-yousaid.” -Ialsoknowwhere:attheendofthevillage, nearthewateringhole,onthegrass,among thestackedbundlesofreeds.Intheplace towhichtheyflowed-wheretheyendedthere,underthesky.”
Thusbeganthesettingofthestoryabouttheinterweavingofourlives,dreams,achievements,fallsand rises.There,inthedust,sand,water,reeds,strips, amongthebirds,inthegustofwind.
Inaplacewherewebreathe,laughandcryatthetop ofourlungs,freelyandthunderously.
Inaplacewherethesilenceisso loud.
Whereseedsareplantedandlifeis watchedasitemerges. Wherenothingisforcedand everythingispossible.
Hereyoucanheardistantstoriesof ancestors,tramplingtheearth,diggingmud,buildingahome,agarden, painting-theworld.
-excerptfromthecataloguewritten byValentinaVenceland
Luna Salamon
TO BREATHE IN A COBWEB
Master exhibition: (Un)conscious organisms - exploration of the unconscious through the artwork of scene design To breathe in a cobweb. The exhibition was made during a MultiMadeira residency programme in Madeira.
https://www.facebook.com/Multimadeira
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7QuM9yVHw 2020. EKSPERIMENTAL VIDEO DROPS
SPACE LABORATORY
2.0: IDEOLOGY AND (OR) WHAT TO DO
The exhibition Space Laboratory 2.0, which was open to visitors until December 6, represents the first part of the Space Laboratory 2.0, an exhibition of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Novi Sad, where the works, created in the period from 2016 to 2019, of students, assistants and teachers from this department are presented.
http://www.scen.uns. ac.rs/?p=31672
2019
http://www.scen.uns.ac.rs/?page_id=8223 june 2015 PROCESS OR WHAT DOES MATTER TO ME? PQ 2015, student section
The performance of Serbia at Prague Quadrennial, called Process, was awarded the Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Provoking a Dialogue.
The Serbian curatorial team won the award for its overall performance – Mia David, curator of the Serbian national section, for their work Power (less) – Response(ability), the curatorial team of student section led by Tatjana Dadić Dinulović, for their work Process or What DOES matter to me, as well as the author teams of both national and student sections.
Prague Quadrennial is the most significant event in the field of scene design and performing space in the world. The award that Serbia won, has been established this year in order to emphasize the direction in which the Quadrennial has been transforming in the last decade and to indicate the possibility of its further development. Apart from that, this is the first time in the history of the Prague Quadrennial that Serbia has won a prize.
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