The non-governmental organization Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA has started a new performative project by donating a laptop to the Music School in Slavonski Brod. The president of ARTHEA Ph.D Vesna Srnic, who is also the author of the forthcoming project, has handed the laptop to the headmistress, professor Mirela Jagodić.
Performance Glocal Rhythms of Emancipation organized by the civil association Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA and in cooperation with the Elementary School Ivan Goran Kovačić, Crafts School and the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod was performed on Saturday, May 23 on the main city square at 12 o’clock, in front of several hundred citizens.
A group of students attending classes on regular, individualized, adapted and gifted program Marija Cernecki, Luka Mrvelj and Kasijan Kristic presented an urban walk with “marching drums” and electronic music. Moderators were two students of the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod – Marko Mrsic and Andrea Josipovic, and the other 80 students were creating multimedia tasks for the course Media Culture, which is taught by the author of the performance PhD. Vesna Srnic who is also the president of the civil association ARTHEA.
In the scientific part, the project is commented in the publication with scientific articles by 6 eminent scientists: PhD. Lino Veljak, Head of the Department of Ontology at the Faculty of humanities and social sciences, University of Zagreb, Dr Kruno Martinac Associate for Visual Communications from Australia, PhD. Suzana Marjanic, Performance studies theorist from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, Dr Divna Vuksanovic, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and president of the Young peas association from Belgrade, psychiatry specialist MA Jugoslav Gojkovic from the Josip Bencevic Hospital in Slavonski Brod and PhD. Vesna Srnic, research associate at FOOZOS.
All results of the vertical educational and artistic / scientific project are published in printed and digital publication at the social network http://glocal-art.ning.com/ and will be published at the portal of the association Media-Via.Net as well.
The sponsors of the urban performance are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Slavonski Brod.
Culturenet.hr – portal of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, published the announcement of the performance.
Elementary school Ivan Goran Kovacic announced the event.
Multimedia platform of the project:
PowerPoint Presentations created by gifted students of the Elementary School Ivan Goran Kovačić:
Students’ final video:
Publication with scientific and artistic/multimedial works in Croatian:
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On Saturday, 19th October 2019, The Croatian National Theatre (HNK) in Zagreb, Croatia inovativelly presented premiere of famous philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s Antigona, directed by the German/Croatian theatre director and activist Angela Richter, thus positioning itself at the top of European theatres.
In the first 20 minutes the play is frontal multimedia and then it becomes a total work of art, introducing the surprising performance art of the choir characters from the audience: randomly judging from the left, right and back balcony, as well as from the audience parterre. Choir characters were accompanied by a spotlight and a video camera with simultaneous projection.
The auditive, musical part of the play was impressively fitting into visual multimedia.
Firstly Žižek adhered to the classic content of the tragedy, but then technically and humorously by „flashback“ restrospection he examines three possible, elaborated solutions: in addition to the classic ending, Žižek recognizes a rigid or fundamentalist actuality, and finally he directly questions political thinking and leader’s responsibility. Appearing personally as a huge projection, Zizek harnessed the holistic and existentialist potential, like the great creator of proposed trinity (thesis-antithesis-synthesis).
Which of the three versions is the correct one?! The prophet Tiresias concludes that only in solitude by stopping the buzz of the world, we stop the chaos.
Still, the impression of over-controlling the play remains, it lacks the kind of „camp“ freedom, performative anarchy, although there were rhythmically impressive experimental audio-visual breaks in the play directed by Angela Richter! In my oppinion this could be achieved with a deeper and greater momentum towards the real audience, not filmed before the play, including all audio-visual risks.
Ph.D Vesna Srnic
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Civil organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA performing event “Hologram and the Real: Forest Television” was realized on 25 May, 2019 at the main town square of the Croatian city Slavonski Brod with the alluring enthusiasm of all of us: the Zagreb dancers of contemporary dance Nastasja Štefanić and Tamara Curić, musician from Opatija Vedran Ružić on double bass, Tomislav Brezicevic from Zagreb on hang drum, and 98 students of “Faculty of Education” in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod who have created multimedia works for the “Media Culture” course. The author of the project Ph.D.Vesna Srnić, Arthea president is a lecturer as well, while the vice dean Ph.D. Emine Berbić-Kolar gave us a great overall support. Technical supervision for the hologram was done by Connect IT, thanks to Avishai Cohen his song“Remembering” was a background music, and sponsors were the “Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia”, the “City of Slavonski Brod” and the “Connect IT Association”.
The project “Hologram and the Real: Forest Television” is questioning the Social Intelligence through the interrelationship of virtual and real.
The project also includes several scientists: Professor Ph.D. Lino Veljak, Head of the Department of Ontology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Professor Dr Divna Vuksanović, Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, President of the Association of Citizens’ Young Pea, Docent Ph.D. Suzana Marjanić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, PhD. Vesna Srnić, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, department in Slav. Brod, Dr Kruno Martinac, Intercultural Communication, Melbourne, Australia and MA. Jugoslav Gojković, specialist of the psychiatric hospital ‘Josip Benčević’ in Slavonski Brod.
Credits :
Title : ‘ Remembering ‘
Music composed and performed by Avishai Cohen. Gad Music / Sony ATV
From the album: ‘ At Home’ 2005 – Avishai Cohen Trio and Ensemble – Razdaz Recordz LLC
by kind permission : Avishai Cohen, Razdaz Recordz LLC
This year’s performance project is an elaborated continuation of last years multicultural themes called Glocal Multimedia Culture: “The World Image and Performativeness of Glocal Consciousness”, with an emphasis on educational and scientific / artistic urban affect, mitigation of xenophobia as foreign / different from traditional, via interdisciplinary and integrated education of students and citizens through innovative art practice.
More at: http://glocal-art.ning.com and SBTV News (in Croatian).
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The project, titled Situationally Performative Smartphone Orchestra, examines the relationship “Humans vs. Tehne “, and continues on lectures and seminars of the course Media Culture lectured by the author Dr. sc. Vesne Srnic (an example of a small sample of 50 students in the lecture hall is available on https://media-via.net/…/post-modern-dystopic-deconstruction …).
On Saturday, 5 May 2018, exactly at 12 o’clock on the main city square “Ivana Brlić Mažuranić” in Slavonski Brod we orchestrated a set of 200+ smartphones in phenomenologically designed, situationally astonished (humming) sounds and (white) noises. Eighty students of the “Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek”, a department in Slavonski Brod, 2 teachers and the video group of the elementary school “Ivan Goran Kovačić”, as well as the present 200 people on the square – turned on the sounds and alarms of their smartphones! The students/performers presented the meditative, asymmetrical and atonal shift of the usual harmonic sounds in the postmodern spirit, and the students/moderators gave the viewers the performative tasks of activating the alarm or their favourite ringtone of the smartphone at the exact time (12.15 minute). Multimedial photographs and video footages were recorded by 60 students as an intense event for their final work in the above-mentioned Media Culture course, and elementary school students added lower and upper shots recorded with mBot robots and drones. We invited national televisions, the local SBTV, as well as numerous Internet portals and radio stations. The length of the performance was 20 minutes, after which the affectivelly refined usual perception returned to the main square.
Project sponsors are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Slavonski Brod, the Tourist Board of the City of Slavonski Brod, and this year’s collaborator in celebrating the European Week was the Europe House Slavonski Brod.
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The portal Media-Via editor and NGO Culture, Media and Education president Ph.D Vesna Srnic has just published the scientific paper Glocal Multimedia Art as an Unbreakable Narrative at the American Journal of Arts&Humanities. https://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/index
Artistic individuation as a performative ‘gender indeterminacy’
Creating this year’s state of mind on the Croatian City Square, promoting human rights to diversity, our civic organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA presented a new dance performance: two students of contemporary dance from the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb – Simun Stankov and Mate Jonjic, as well as a student from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod Igor Ilic, in long skirts and choreography of Zagreb dancer and musician Nastasja Stefanic performed an improvisation on jazz music by the American artist John Zorn, gaining an inspiration from the world famous Israeli Dance group Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, with whom the author of the project PhD. Vesna Srnic has arranged co-operation. (culturenet.hr ; http://glocal-art.ning.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/glocalart ; ) Brochure in Croatian language –PUBLIKACIJA_2017
Part of the art performance is also a multimedia platform realized by the students of the Academy of Arts in Osijek, under the mentorship of prof.art. Vladimir Frelih, as well as a student of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod Valentina Jackiv and Rian Skrinjaric, the student of Primary School “Ivan Goran Kovacic”, educated by the teacher Tomislav Lacic.
As the author of the project stated in her thesis of doctoral dissertation that the artistic individuation is the way of solving the gender problematic and that only with the aesthetic changes of reality we re-create and acquire a new personality without gender discrimination or categorization, neither androgynous nor transgender. Of course, we do not eliminate the potentials of individuals and communities that explore all the transitional boundaries of their gender.
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The particular importance of the project is seen in the global decentralization of culture and the penetration of a progressive performative approach to urban space in which the overwhelming conservatism of culture and rigid xenophobia prevail, ie the frustration by the contemporary art practices as a different worldview of abstract imagination and, above all, the presence of strangers. We incorporate this civic educational project in primary, secondary and tertiary curricula.
Scientific reviews on artistic performances will be written by: Professor PhD. Lino Veljak (Head of the Department of Ontology, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb), Mediologist Professor dr Divna Vuksanovic (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, President of the Association of Citizens for Art, Culture, Media and Social Issues “Young Peas”), dr Jugoslav Gojkovic (Department of Psychiatry, Slavonski Brod), and the media aesthetician PhD. Vesna Srnic, associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, a department in Slavonski Brod.
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This year civic organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Slavonski Brod, the Tourist Board of Slavonski Brod and Brodsko-Posavska County.
Croatian culture web centre – Culturenet.hr, informed on the performance (in Croatian language):
Local television SBTV information at 18:48 – 22:40 (in Croatian):
Brochure in Croatian language PUBLIKACIJA_2017
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On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 12 am at the town square “Ivana Brlić Mažuranić” in Slavonski Brod, civil organization “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA orchestrated multimedia performative trine “World image and performativity of glocal consciousness”, culturally aimed against xenophobia as destructor of conservative ego. Our project is a multiplatform awareness raising programme with a heavy emphasis on performance art in urban surroundings.
The glocal (global and local) artists in simultaneous performances were: Slovenian Aljaz Razdevsek on saxophone (a graduate of the Music Academy in Zagreb and Conservatoire a rayonnment regional de Lyon), 
Frenchman Regis Kattie on keyboards (a graduate of the Music Academy in Zagreb), and three graduates, contemporary dancers from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb – Nastja Stefanic, Eleonora Magdalena Vrdoljak and Cynthia Kucic. Online reviews of multimedia visions on performances can be seen at the social network http://glocal-art.ning.com by the following scientists: Prof. Ph.D. Lino Veljak from the Department of ontology of the Faculty of 
Philosophy in Zagreb, then Dr. Kruno Martinac from the Murdoch University, Australia, as well as Prof. PhD. Divna Vuksanovic from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade and MA Jugoslav Gojkovic, dr. Med. at the Department of Psychiatry, Slavonski Brod.
The author of performative artistic-scientific project is Ph.D. Vesna Srnic, research associate at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, study in Slavonski Brod.
More about the project at the online platform http://glocal-art.ning.com/
Video by Valentina Jackiv, student of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek, study in Slavonski Brod
Our project is a multiplatform awareness raising programme with a heavy emphasis on performance art in urban surroundings.
Through this project we hope to:
With the imminent entrance of Croatia in to the EU the need for a project that raises awareness of European values is greater than ever.The project puts a heavy emphasis on bringing european values to its’ future citizens on a more intimate and local level. More often than not it’s the localities that are neglected since most programmes deem it only necessary to target major cities.
The project will immidiately pull in by-standers and will peak their curiosity which will lead them to ask questions about the performances and in turn will be informed about the project and it’s theme. By catching just a glimpse of another culture they can draw their own conclusions as to the differences and similiarities they may share with other nations. It will promote open mindedness and a will to accept foreigners in to their society. Web logs, social networking and traditional forms of media will ensure that the program will not go unnoticed. With the all the performers, intelectuals, experts and the general public involved the project has huge potential to reach a massive audience.
A performance as dance is universal. Every culture has one. This project takes advantage of this and uses the fact to „hook“ by standers. From then they ask themselves the questions needed to come to the realisation that multiculturality and understanding is indeed the road that needs to be taken. This unique combination of performances in urban surroundings combined with online conferences, discussions and multimedia campaign (brochures, social networking) will ensure that the project will reach it’s full potential.
The members of ARTHEA are scientists, professors, artists, students and agile creative citizens. The association is registered as a competente civil organisation for the Cultural areas of Art, Media and Internet, thus it promotes Media culture and raises awareness on the Multicultural integration.
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The Croatian multimedia artist Kata Mijatovic is going to exhibit her work at the 55th Venice Biennale, which will be held from 1st June to 24th November on the topic ‘Il Palazzo Enciclopedico’ given by the Biennale art director Massimiliano Gioni. The work can be seen/created at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka at 20th February.
The curator, famous expert for Avant garde Art, prof. Branko Franceschi, chose her work „Archiving the dreams“ as a sort of „mapping the hidden, unattended unconscious dimensions of Reality“. The Author’s long term project is based on collecting, writing and using the other people’s Dreams.
You can ask yourself about the meaning of subconsciousness in constructing the Reality, as well as add your dreams in writing at Facebook profile “Arhiv snova” (Dream Archive).
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The NGO “Culture, Media and Education” – ARTHEA successfully implemented multicultural project, created by president dr. Vesna Srnic, named “WORLD IMAGE AND PERFORMATIVENESS OF GLOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS”. The project was finalised on 10th May, at 12 am at the town square in the form of performance (dance of the Indian girl Gayatri) and as an international roundtable / symposium in the conference hall of Hotel Art in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. Croatian “Ministry of culture” informs on our project on their web page Culturenet.hr.
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amines orchestration of the World Image through global and local considerations, therefore, the glocal-art strives to eliminate the negative effects of globalization on the vitality on the one hand and localizations of nationalisms on the other . The purpose of the global and local ( glocal ) reflection on the multicultural project is easing the fear from/of foreigners or xenophobia, and was prepared in the framework of the EU week in Brod-Posavina County. More about the project can be found on the NGOs online platform, social network http://glocal-art.ning.com.
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The project implementation participants :
Prof. doc. Vladimir Frelich from the Academy of Arts, Osijek and graduate Lucija Jakovina, Ph.D. Vesna Srnic, external collaborator of The Faculty of Teachers’ education in Osijek, dislocated study in Slavonski Brod with students Tanja Djuric and Iva Bagaric, Doctors of science of Association NGO “New peas”, Belgrade, Serbia: Dr. Vlatko Ilić and Dr. Aleksandra Brakus, MA. Jugoslav Gojkovic, Dr. med. psychiatrist,
Ph.D. Zdravko Palavra, Information and communication sciences, Embassy of the Republic of India, Zagreb and professional dancer Gayatri Maric, as well as Europe House Slavonski Brod and head of the EU direct Prof. Bozica Sedlic.
Colleagues who did not attend, have been included in the discussion and exchange of information across our virtual online platform, social network http://glocal–art.ning.com: distinguished anthropologists Ph.D. Vanja Bors from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Dr. Semir Osmanagic with dual addresses in Houston and Sarajevo, visual communications theorist Dr. Kruno Martinac from Melbourne, MA. doc. Vladimir Frelih from the Art Academy in Osijek , as well as Professors Dr. DivnaVuksanovic and Dr. Dragan Calovic media aestheticians, mediologists and co-organisators of an international symposium Philosophy of media.
The project is being implemented in collaboration with the European House in Slavonski Brod , under the auspices of the Town Slavonski Brod, Brod- Posavina County and the Administrative Department of Development and European Integration.
(Croatian “Ministry of culture” informs on our project on their web page Culturenet.hr.)
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A Vacation From History is a magical journey unfolding on the border between dream and reality in which the audience – deprived of the usual theatrical ritual and spectator’s distance – takes part with their entire being.The performance Vacation from History by Shadow Casters will be presented to national and international attendants and collaborators of the IETM (International network for contemporary performing arts, Zagreb, October25-28) plenary session on October 26th at 7pm and on October 27th at 11am.
A Vacation from History is also a multimedia theatre performance in which the Shadow Casters re-establish a new synergy with the audience each time it is performed, making each performance unique in content. It is a meta(physical) comment on Kafka’s work: a travel to the edge of collective and individual consciousness, through the realms of dream and death as the only safe refuges from history. Vacation from History, has been presented by international theater festivals in Croatia and abroad: Zagreb, Pula, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Subotica, Maribor and Cluj and was awarded: Special Jury Prize BITEF 2009, the 2008 “Avaz dragon” Award at the 48th MESS Festival, 2010 “Cloud” Main Award of the 16th Pula International Festival PUF.
Shadow Casters is a non-profit international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creativity and reflection on inter-media art. Working with public urban space through various art interventions and projects is one of the main areas on which their work is focussed.
Concept: Boris Bakal
Script, Director: Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic
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As the Culturenet informs “Sanja Iveković’s solo exhibition Waiting for the Revolution is on view from June 2 to September 16 at Mudam in Luxemburg. Curators are Christophe Gallois and Enrico Lunghi.
Sanja Iveković, a central figure on the Croatian art scene, has developed an engaged artistic practice since the early 1970s, animated by questions of genre, media, identity, and the public and private spheres. Her exhibition at Mudam – a decade after her unprecedentedly controversial public space project Lady Rosa of Luxembourg, which addressed the often -overlooked role of women in wartime – will present a large panorama of her works realised from 1975 to the present.”
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A three day International symposium “Philosophy of Media” at the Croatian city Opatija successfuly finished. From 19th to 21st the participants discussed and elaborated this year topic “Art and Media”. At the opening a German professor at Rotterdam School of Management Frank Hartmann spoke on his experiences and a great number of regional participants contributed to the important subject of the symposium. The President of Association “Culture, Media and Education – ARTHEA” Ph.D Vesna Srnic introduced the new concept on Multitasking and the ARTHEA’s portal Media-Via brings the summary of this scientific paper.
Multitasking in multimedia and multimedia art, especially in the form of integrative activities or performances, presents an artistic actualisation via simultaneous processing by intensifying the experience as a process of affective individualization. As opposed to computer multitasking where a larger number of activities weaken concentration, i.e. attention is dispersed and memory is weakened, the orchestrated affective experience in Multimedia Art is anchored in an existential support by artistic attention which results in an organic memory and authenticity. With this thesis we hope to disallow the findings of other scholars (such as Christine Rosen, Ph.D., in her work „The Myth of Multitasking“, Sead Alić, Ph.D., in ‘’McLuhan, Announcement of Media Philosophy’’ and others) who claim multitasking results in the loss of wisdom.
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“Theatre Trafik” form Rijeka and “The Necessary Stage” from Singapore will premiere their joint project – the performance ‘Crossings’ at 16 August in Theatre Esplanade – The Studio Season in Singapore, with additional perfromances on 17, 18 and 19 August. The Croatian premiere is planned for 19 August at the National Theatre Ivan Zajca in Rijeka. Their work is related to questions of identity of the individual lost on the margins of time and space.
Based on Asian myths, Crossings take us on a journey of the transformation of the self – how one deals with the seduction of being imprisoned and how freedom opens us to meaningless pain. Crossings is a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists from Singapore and Croatia investigating the coexistence, understanding and mixing of different cultures.
The Necessary Stage
Formed in 1987 by our current Artistic Director Alvin Tan, The Necessary Stage (TNS) is a non-profit theatre company with charity status. Our mission is to create challenging, indigenous and innovative theatre that touches the heart and mind. TNS is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s 2 Year Major Grant, and is also the organiser and curator of the annual M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.
TRAFIK (Transitive-Fiction Theatre)
The work of this collective of authors and performers is, by many accounts, very unique within the context of Croatian independent theatre and dates its beginnings back to 1998 and their site-specific performance, The Walker. This work determined their thematic objectives as well as artistically expression on questions of identity of the individual lost on the margins of time and space.
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“Santarcangelo isn’t a showcase but a place of artistic experience; in opening international dialogues with collectives of fifty years’ standing and with artists at their debut; in imagining projects that are out of format with respect to the theatre, which overflow with simplicity and brazenness into art, writing, drawing and cinema; in getting kids, old folk, citizens and foreigners involved in creations by artists who are able to set up a short-circuit between stage and life, far from any TV form, from any narcissism, to remind us how art is a place for distillation of the real, a space where it is possible to practise a glance of inexperience and courage, to make oneself vulnerable to what one does not know and is not understood, what does not belong to us and to which we perhaps belong.
Sad sam /almost 6/ is a work about childhood and its ending; about the relationship with one’s own interior world and with the others outside; about the power of the imaginary and a language capable of creating things by naming them; about the rip that breaks the perfect circle and opens us up, through the wound, to others and to the real. The show is one chapter of a wider ranging project in which under the title Sad Sam (a play on words, since in Croatian it means “now I am”) Ferlin composes a series of small creations, all centred on his stage presence characterised by great expressive power and surprising delicacy.
Matija Ferlin (b. Pola, 1982) graduated at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and lived in Berlin where he collaborated with, among others, Sasha Waltz. He then returned to Pola and began research involving the rearrangement of various ideas of performance in relation to other languages such as film shorts and exhibitions.(http://santarcangelofestival.com)
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In German Medienmuseum ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe you can visit on March 8th, 2012 an exhibition “Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts” as an international live exhibition on the history of art performance in dance and fine art. As an exhibition ‘in progress’, the project shows and develops new formats of museal presentation of live acts. The exhibition begins in an empty exhibition space. During the eight week duration of the exhibition project a scenic act of around ten central stages of dance and performance history unfolded − as witnessed by a group of students invited to accompany and observe for the entire period − before a public. One of the key focal points is the performances and works by women who have consciously been thematizing, transgressing and critiquing the genre boundaries between dance, performance, and visual media since the 1960s. Here, they likewise reflect on the implicit male constructions of the gaze and the gestural logic of their colleagues.
Among others, the artists represented in the exhibition will be Marina Abramović, Graciela Carnevale, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Reinhild Hoffmann, Channa Horwitz, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sanja Iveković, Adrian Piper and Yvonne Rainer. The exhibition is composed of four phases, in each of which other actors occupy the exhibition space:
1. Act − Stage and Display (March 8−March 17, 2012)
2. Re-Act − Interpretative Acquisition in the Art Laboratory (March 18−March 30, 2012)
3. Post-Production − Film Editing (March 31−April 14, 2012)
4. Remembering the Act − Performative Mediation of the Exhibition Process by Artistic Witnesses (April 15−April 29, 2012)
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On November 1st, Laurie Anderson was honored at Legends 2011, a Pratt Institute scholarship benefit honoring icons of art and design. The Legends Awards were conceived in 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the Pratt Institute to celebrate distinguished individuals and corporations in the world of art and design, whose accomplishments and values resonate with those of Pratt Institute.
Laurie was introduced by author Salman Rushdie, and additional honorees included Juan Montoya and William Wegman.
“Laurie Anderson is one of the seminal artists of our time. Her work includes a wide variety of media: performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography and sculpture. Over the past thirty years, she has created a number of groundbreaking works ranging from spoken word performances to elaborate multimedia events. She has published six books, produced numerous videos, films, radio pieces and original scores for dance and film.”
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On September 11, 2001 director Dan Oki was living in New York and witnessed the terrorist attack and its consequences firsthand. In this film, he takes his documentary footage from that fateful day and puts it in the context of a feature film. Projections of a film will be held at Zagreb (on September 11), Berlin and New York (on September 12). A theatre troupe from Croatia travels to New York on September 10, 2001. The troupe is a diverse group made up of a young married couple and their son, two girls, and a young man. They are welcomed by their producer, a New Yorker of Croatian descent, whose husband works at the World Trade Centre. Suddenly, without warning, the troupe finds itself in the middle of the destruction of September 11. The relationships between the characters come under pressure and begin to change as a reaction to the sheer force of the events unfolding all around them. THE PERFORMANCE 78 minute, HD-Cam, 2010 Writer and Director: Dan Oki Director of Photography: Raul Brzic Composer: Vjeran Šalamon Editor: Davor Švaic With: Vanda Boban, Marin Tudor, Lana Hulenic, Marko Petric, Elena Orlic, Luka Jokic Sterle, Sandra Sterle, Brian Willems. Production House: Studio Fugo Schedule of the projection ZAGREB - Sunday, September 11, 2011, 6 PM Museum of Contemporary Art Avenija Dubrovnik 17, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia BERLIN - Monday 12. September at 8.30 p.m. BABYLON – Cinema 1 Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 BERLIN, Deutschland http://www.babylonberlin.de/performance.htm NEW YORK – Monday, September 12, 2011, 8PM THE THING @ WHITE SLAB PALACE 77 Delancey St (between Allen St & Orchard St) New York, NY 10002 Neighborhood: Lower East Side http://post.thing.net/node/3477 Dan Oki (Slobodan Jokic, Zadar, 1965) is an internationaly renown media artist for twenty years. As a producer, writer and director he made three feature films: Oxygene 4, Performance and the Dark. He teaches as a Film and Media Arts professor at UMAS in Split and ADU in Zagreb. MV Source: (from the catalogue)
Manchester International Festival and Teatro Real Madrid present on 30th June-17th July the world premiere of a startling new piece for the stage: The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, a biography of the godmother of performance art, re-imagined by visionary director Robert Wilson.
“What an incredible evening, truly the finest theatre I have ever seen. Abramović was incredible, moving through the play, of which she is the central character in the most profound way, with a light touch, never overpowering her cast. Willem Defoe cut an imposing but insightful figure throughout, playing a role as narrator, but so much more, becoming a representation of a massively significant part of Abramović herself. I cannot speak highly enough of his performance; I was more than impressed, frankly stunned at his abilities as an actor, playing the dark side of a human soul, but again more, becoming the gatekeeper of Abramović’s mind, whilst maintaining a merciless and cutting humour that displayed an absence of pretension in both Abramović and himself. His representation of the internal torture present within a profound, intelligent mind was one which rose above an occasion already described quite rightly, as a significant moment in the history of Mancunian theatrical culture.” (Comment by Daniel James Gillard)
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MARK TRIBE: ‘THE DYSTOPIA FILES’ (Zagreb, June 9th – July 9th 2011), ‘Performance, mediation and public sphere’, workshop and public lecture
„The Dystopia Files“ (A dystopia – from Ancient Greek: δυσ-, “bad, ill”, and Ancient Greek: τόπος, “place, landscape” is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state), at g-mk is the newest iteration of Mark Tribe’s ongoing project, which recontextualizes the history of demonstrations in the US. The artist had gathered an archive of protest footage, which serves as a base for creating site specific video installations in gallery and museum spaces. The work tackles on a set of questions about power relations, spectatorship, image manipulation, participation, interaction and political engagement. The relationship between these issues and recent curatorial practices will be discussed during the workshop held by Mark Tribe. In a talk following the workshop, Mark will present his multimedia artistic practices, including his previous acknowledged projects such as Rhizome and Port Huron ( The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era). The exhibition is curated by Željka Himbele Kožul.
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The Perforations Festival takes place annually in Croatia and presents a range of artists working in performance art, theater, and dance, whose diverse approaches to art-making blurs the borders between these genres. Highlights from this festival will be presented in New York at La MaMa from March 11 – March 20, 2011.
Their work touches upon issues of identity (public, political, religious), redefining borders and space, a collective past, and personal histories, but most of all their work talks about the present. Highlights from this festival will be presented at New York La MaMa, offering audiences insight into contemporary lines of artistic thinking from some of the most provocative and influential artists in the region. Perforations Festival New York will feature U.S. premieres from Ivo Dimchev (Bulgaria); BADco. (Croatia); Sanja Mitrović (Serbia); Igor Josifov (Macedonia); Petra Kovačić (Croatia); Željko Zorica (Croatia); Slovenian Youth Theater (Slovenia); Via Negativa (Slovenia); and Ivica Buljan/Mini Teater (Croatia/ Slovenia).
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International festival of mental health, exhibition, performances, theatre plays, cinema, conference.
It is the first international project of this kind in this region. Find the answers to how we became mad, how autism and theatre are connected, do we perhaps need mental pacemakers or how does one fall in love with the Eiffel Tower, by coming to the festival, October 20-24, 2010 at Pogon Jedinstvo and Mochvara Club in Zagreb.
October 23, Saturday (11-16h conference)
● Panel 1: How We Became Mad
11:15h Dušan Bijelić (RS/US), Freud’s Self-Orientalism and the “Nazi Symptom” of Psychoanalysis
12h Ana Peraica (HR), The Victims’ Symptom
12:20h Zoran Roško (HR), How Did We All Become Mad?
● Panel 2: Doctoring the Mind
13:45h Sergio Benvenuto (IT), Age of Happiness, Age of Depression
14:30h Adi Hasanbašić (BA), The Voice of Madness Live on Air
14:50h Leonard Roy Frank (US), Electroshock Damages the Brain and Destroys Memory / video conference
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The gratest Croatian performer Tomislav Gotovac, a film director with huge charisma and energy died in 74th year in Zagreb.
Several yea
rs ago he changed his name into Antonio Lauer after mothers second name, but he stayed well known for his previous name and work of art as well. He has used his body a lot in his performances. He was famous for his performance “Zagreb, I love you” performed in 1981th where he walked through the capital`s main street Ilica naked while kissing the asphalt
occasionally.
He had been born in Vojvodina (Serbia, ex Yougoslavia), he has finished the Film Academy in Belgrade and has moved to live in Croatia. As the leader to many artists, for example to Marina Abramovic, he had a lot of art works in important galleries, such as the Cetre George Pompidou in Paris, and Venice Biennale. Although he was shortly ill and suffered in poor conditions, he will stay famous for his films “Glenn Miller 2000” and performances like “Foxy Mister”as well as his well known sentence: “Sve je movie-All is Movie”.
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