PUBLIC DISCUSSION: Crisis Ordinary, Systematic Crisis and the Future of Knowledge in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath

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Public discussion: Crisis Ordinary, Systematic Crisis and the Future of Knowledge in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath  

with Marijana Cvetković, Jasna Jasna Žmak, Rok Vevar and Jasmina Zaloznik.

https://youtu.be/3-5_YSMiTjo

Topic Tags: past and contemporary co-curating confronting temporalities

 

  • Co-Festival (result of joined forces for a free festival model) as example of curating in context
  • Co-curating in Co-festival: confrontations of different temporalities
  • Contemporary events: not only present phenomena, but also something that has its past, connected to past cultural and dance contexts
  • Curatorial approach to making ConDance festival: in dialogue with Belgrade community, in response to their (developmental) needs, interests, blank spots in work and education...
  • Dance as a syncretic practice that embraces issues, topics and questions from other fields 
  • "What are the essential professions?" - an important question for the artistic field, it made us re-think our position in a social structure
  • Why are arts and culture important for the society?

 

Marijana Cvetković is a writer, researcher, curator, producer, teacher in the field of culture and cultural policy. She graduated in art history in Belgrade. She completed MA in management in culture and cultural policy (Belgrade and Lyon). Currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Co-founder of Station Service for contemporary dance and the Balkan Platform Nomad Dance Academy. Cultural activist at the independent cultural scenes of Belgrade and Serbia, co-founder of associations other scene and Association of Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia. Actively participates in the initiatives Cultural Center Magacin, http://xn--zajedniko-rfb.org/ (platform for theory and practice of the commons) and the independent dance scene in Belgrade.


Jasna Jasna Žmak is a freelance dramaturge and writer based in Zagreb, Croatia, and working in the fields of performance, dance, literature and film. She is assistant professor at the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she previously graduated. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Zagreb. Her research interests include different shades of performance dramaturgy, reflections of feminist perspectives and questions of queer possibilities. She was member of the editorial board of the performing arts journal Frakcija. She writes performance texts, short stories, reviews, research papers, and essays. She has published several books, including "Lecture as performance, performance as lecture – on the production of knowledge in the arts" (Leykam International, 2019) and "Dirty words – essays on female sexuality" (Fraktura, 2020).

 

 Jasmina Založnik is a dramaturge, theatrologist, critic and producer. Her primary focus is on contemporary dance; she deals with its historicization and reflection, and fosters initiatives that help create more encouraging conditions for its development. She is an active member of the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija, regional network the Nomad Dance Academy, the City of Women Association, and a member of professional guild organizations: the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia and the Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia. She is also a member of the editorial board of Maska journal and Dialogi journal, and is active locally and
internationally as a writer, dramaturge, curator, moderator, consultant, researcher and art collaborator. She holds a master's degree in philosophy and is completing her PhD thesis titled 'Claiming the Space of the New Performative Art Practices: Ljubljana, Belgrade, and Novi Sad (1965 – 1987)' at the University of Aberdeen (UK). In 2015, she received the Ksenija Hribar Award for dance in the category of criticism/dramaturgy/theory.


Rok Vevar graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana. In the 1990s, he attended the Theatre and Puppetry School – Cosmopolitan art workshop (GILŠ KODUM) at the then called, ZKOS (Zveza kulturnih organizacij Slovenije - Union of Cultural Organizations of Slovenia). He is a publicist in the field of contemporary performing arts, and a historian and archivist of contemporary dance. He has published articles and reviews in a number of daily newspapers (Delo, Finance, Večer), in professional journals (Maska, Frakcija), as well as in Slovenian and foreign periodicals. As a dramaturge, he has collaborated with artists from the field of contemporary dance and theatre (Sinja Ožbolt, Jana Menger, Goran Bogdanovski, Andreja Rauch Pozdravnik, Snježana Premuš, Kaja Lorenci, Dejan Srhoj, Oliver Frljić, Ana Vujanović, Saša Asentić). Together with Simona Semenič, he has created three plays: Polna pest praznih rok (Fistful of Empty Hands), 2001, Solo brez talona (Solo Without Talons), 2003, and Kartografija celovečernih slik (Cartography of Full-Length Images), 2005. As part of the network of festivals FIT (Poland, Finland, Slovakia, Slovenia), as well as at international festivals (Bulgaria, Latvia, Croatia), he has taught young critics, dance dramaturges, and publicists. At the AGRFT academy (Academy of Theatre, Film and Television) in Ljubljana he has taught history, dramaturgy, analysis, theory of contemporary dance, as well as theatre criticism. Since 2010, he has been an active member of the Balkan network for dance, Nomad Dance Academy, and its various artistic, educational, and production programs. As part of the Nomad Dance Institute project, he has initiated the archiving and historization of choreographic practices in the region, and published the findings of this research in two issues of the journal Maska (Premiki sodobnega plesa II/Movements in Contemporary Dance II, Avtonomija plesu/Autonomy to Dance). In 2012, he established the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archives in his own apartment, moving it to MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova) in Ljubljana in April 2018. He has also presented his archive at Harvard University, USA. He founded and co-curated with Sinja Ožbolt the Ukrep festival, which was a festival for perspectives in dance in Ljubljana at PTL (Dance Theatre of Ljubljana), from 2008-2010. Since 2012, he has been co-curating the international dance festival CoFestival (Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija, Kino Šiška). A selection of his reviews and articles was published in the book Rok za oddajo (Deadline), in 2011, and in 2018, he edited the book Dan, noč + človek = Ritem: Antologija slovenske sodobnoplesne publicistike 1918–1960 (Day, night + man = Rhythm: An Anthology of Contemporary Slovene Journalism 1918-1960), for which he selected materials and wrote accompanying texts. In 2020, he published his new monograph Ksenija, Xenia: Londonska plesna leta Ksenije Hribar 1960–1978 (Ksenija, Xenia: The London Dance Years of Ksenija Hribar 1960-1978). In 2019, he was awarded the Ksenija Hribar Award for his work (The Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia), and in 2020, he won the Vladimir Kralj Award (The Association of Theatrologists and Critics Slovenia).

 

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