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Pillow work: Day 4 - Pillow fight

Video documentation of happening / 2025 /Jelsa, Croatia

Marike Leene and Kalin Mihov organized a five-day event to mark the end of their joint residency at Jelsa Art Hub. The event included a series of happenings, performative acts and temporary installations that engaged the local community. During the week, they collaborated with middle school students to create an ephemeral land art installation in the city park, they cleaned sections of the city’s infrastructure in a day-long performance and they spend one day in carrying load of pillows around key locations of the city to explore in detail the notion of *pillow work.

On the fourth day, they marked an arena in the city's central square, inviting locals and guests to take part in a therapeutic pillow fight. Open to participants of all ages, the activity served as a playful means of releasing energy and stress. An unexpected ending to the event was a pillow fight between all the cafe owners in the square

*pillow work is a feeling which manifests itself when the worker is faced with hard work, which, however, remains unreachable to him. It lies between the worker on one side who perceives this work as not hard enough and is dissatisfied with the impossibility of associating himself with genuinely hard work, however he does not regret taking it easy and would not raise the issue. On the other side, the contractor, for various reasons, also does not assign the worker the aforementioned hard work. These reasons could be because the worker (and the coiner of this definition) is perceived as a guest, a tourist or a sensitive person and might actually not be capable of the job mentioned.