Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker and artist; Ana Vujanović is a researcher, writer and dramaturge. Working across moving images, choreography and spatial installation, their collaboration treats time as a field of inquiry and slowness as both a method and an aesthetic.

During their residency at Glenkeen they returned to moss: an organism that grows in shadows and interstitial spaces, spreads rather than advances, and turns rock into soil beyond human temporality. Its dramaturgy is ongoing and indifferent to culmination. Growing close to the ground, beneath more visible forms of life, moss becomes a figure for the eponymous ‘UNDER-STORIES’: histories that persist below dominant narratives, dispersed, partial and still alive. Their research traces how the moss-covered landscapes of West Cork have also offered refuge to queer women, from the back-to-the-land migrations of the 1970s through to the present. Popivoda followed these herstories through a network of encounters and interviews, letting fragments and connections surface the way moss spreads, anchored but unrooted.

The work takes the form of an auditorium inspired by moss-covered rocks, embroidered with fragments of text and image. It echoes what Vujanović calls a porous assemblage, dissolving the boundaries between performer, audience and environment. In front of it, moving images of moss recorded with a thermal camera are projected through several layers of gauze, loosening into an abstract, sculptural presence as a latent activation, holding its force in reserve.

Ana Vujanović is a cultural worker in the fields of performing arts and culture: researcher, writer, dramaturge, lecturer. She focuses on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art, while exploring feminist storytelling, ecofeminism, labour conditions, and resistance to fascism. She has published numerous articles and several books, the most recent being ‘Toward a Transindividual Self: A study in social dramaturgy’ with Bojana Cvejić (Berlin, 2022). She has lectured at various universities and was a guest professor at HZT, University of the Arts Berlin, and at the Performance Studies Department of the University of Hamburg. Since 2016, she has been a team member and mentor at SNDO – School for New Dance Development, University of the Arts Amsterdam. As a dramaturge and writer, she participates in artworks in the fields of theatre, dance, and video/film, most recently the documentary film ‘Landscapes of Resistance’ (2021) and the short film ‘Slet 1988’ (2025), directed by M. Popivoda.

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches these questions from a feminist and queer perspective. In her recent work, she uses landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and principles of radical slowness to produce scenes of antifascist and eco-feminist memory. Her work has been presented worldwide in cinema and visual arts contexts, including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, NYFF, IDFA, Visions du Réel, MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, MAXXI Rome, Manifesta Biennial, and the Berlin Biennale, and has been featured in The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Screen, Artforum, and e-flux. She has received numerous awards for her films and artworks, including the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the Visual Arts at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. She teaches film at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam and is a member of the European Film Academy. She was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024–25.