this is my truth, tell me yours (2023)
Although seemingly unrelated, tinnitus and patriarchy become the central themes of this performance, which operates at the intersection of stand-up and a performance lecture. Appearing on stage as a performer for the first time, Žmak explores questions of truth and representation, participation and responsibility, taking us through her own dramaturgical and sexual experiences while asking herself and the audience about the importance and meaning of making art in an age of rampant capitalism.
Dirty Words is a sex education project I initiated in 2019. As part of the project, I regularly organise psychodramatic workshops on female and queer sexuality. In small groups and a safe environment, using psychodrama, we explore our relationship with our bodies, gender and sexual identities, our genitals, sexual desire and the ways in which we communicate our sexual needs and desires.
- Out Loud: Being Funny and Feminist, Critical Dramaturgy: On Humour, Ribnjak Youth Culture Centre, Zagreb (2023)
- #METOO in the Culture sector: From call-outs to structural change, IETM online session (2021)
- Sexual Harassment in Education and in the Workplace, Faculty of Political Science Students’ Club, Zagreb (2021)
- Discussion on Sexual Violence Following a Screening of One of Us, VoxFeminae festival, Zagreb (2021)
- Weekend of Strong Women, Documentary cinema KIC, Zagreb, Croatia (2019)
- Zbeletron Screening Room: Valencia, Šesnaestica, Zagreb (2019)
- The Body As A Room Of Our Own: Territory, Politics And Female Body, Women Playwrights International conference, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2018)
- Women in the Film Industry, Star film festival, Sisak, Croatia (2018)
- Housewives Kick Ass, Močvara club, Zagreb, Croatia (2016)
- Pink Hypnosis: LGBT Art, Booksa Literary Club, Zagreb, Croatia (2013)
- Lesbian Literature from the Former Yugoslavia: Pristojan život, BeFem festival, Belgrade, Serbia (2012)
- 10th Sexuality Days, USP Kasper, Zadar (2021)
- Twelfth Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, The Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, Durham, USA (2018)
- Women Playwrights International, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2018)
- Feminism is for Everybody, Urania – Space of Creation, Zagreb, Croatia (2020)
- Prvo pa žensko, Skopje, North Macedonia (2020)
- Girls are Weird, Kutina Library and Reading Room, Croatia (2018)
- Rdeče zore, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2016)
- BeFem festival, Belgrade, Serbia (2012)
- The Short Story Is Feminine, Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatia (2010)