Artists and Curators Talks with Dragana Alfirevic

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Artists and Curators Talks with Dragana Alfirevic

 

Topic Tags: Public interest co-living collective private interest curating in context

  • What does it mean to be co-living or co-existing?
  • No borders between artistic and production questions to avoid creating antagonisms
  • Performance as a model of production instead of a model of politics
  • Thinking and creating from the context: a vicious circle?
  • What is public, even if it exists as such? What is public interest?
  • Distinction be
    tween private interest and personal interest
  • Collective work: a process of emancipating personal interest or deepening it, making it more accessible
  • Non-antagonistic and non-hierarchical models of collaboration
  • Curating in context: to create a possibility to become watched and visible, to be present on the stage, to exist in a non-fixed position
  • Can producing things out of context help in producing things in context?

Dragana Alfirević is a cultural worker in the field of contemporary performing arts. Born in Belgrade in 1976, where she studied Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, and following that finished specialist studies in the program BODY UNLIMITED at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. She is co-founder of the Balkan Dance Network and Nomad Dance Academy, a regional tool for communication, education and artistic exchange. She is also coordinator and producer of NDA Slovenia. Dragana is co-founder of STATION, Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade and co-curator of CoFestival in Ljubljana (www.cofestival.si). Since 2010 she is coordinator of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia. She is active in various international projects (Dance On Pass On Dream On, Life Long Burning, Imaginary School, among others). Dragana has authored and co-authored 15 evening length performances and a dozen short choreographies and she is regularly choreographing for theatre performances. She teaches, makes performances, writes, curates festivals, and produces art events in the space between praxis, theory, and activism. In the field of collaborative practices, she is interested in new ways of communication and organization that derive from the needs of the doing. In her artistic work, Dragana works on the development of her own artistic practice, based on research of process and continuity in search for new models of production, as opposed to project-oriented work. She is a member of the Managing Board of Slovene Association of Contemporary Dance. She received the Award of Ksenija Hribar for her work in production in 2019.


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