[contemporary dance] Onformance (Nastup) / Matija Ferlin / february 4 and 5 at 8pm / Zagrebačko kazalište mladih, Zagreb “Delusional perhaps but Constellation always hopes we are up to more than just providing popular entertainment, an idea occasionally reinforced when practitioners of artforms outside of music seek to collaborate with our artists.[...] Our humble projects perhaps receive no greater commendation than when they are married with contemporary dance artists [...].” Don Wilkie from Constellation Records
[premiere] The No-body Project / Anna Nowicka / 17. December / Ljubljana Dance Theatre, Ljubljana “Sonzai-Kan” means in Japanese: “to sense a presence of something or somebody”. What happens if the sight tells you are meeting a human, but your senses cannot recognize a human being? What determines if one is alive? And quite the opposite: how does a body without life act?
[working meetings] NOTIONS IN PARALLEL SLALOM - methodological laboratory and working meetings / B. Cvejić / 18. - 20. 12. / MKM Deschooling Classrom Project at the Cultural Center MKM in Belgrade will host on December 18 to 20, 2009 the working meetings and methodological laboratory conducted by Bojana Cvejić, co-editor of the lexicon of poetic terms of East Dance Academy. Participants in this program are Belgrade- and Skopje-based members of the group Notions, operating as part of the project Deschooling Classroom (2009/10)
[dance theatre] HOMMAGE A TROIS / Dragana Alfirević / 28 - 30. 11. at 20h / Dance Theatre Ljubljana / Ljubljana HOMMAGE à trois is a piece based on questioning authorship and ownership of ideas; we are dealing with stretching the territories of copying and originality; we work from an understanding that paying tribute establishes authority, while at the same time undermines it.
[performance] Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka /I.Štromajer & B.Zorman / 23. 11. 2009. at 06:04 GMT/UTC+9 / internet Štromajer and Zorman are preparing a new Internet ballet – Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka, broadcasting live from Minami Torishima island, Japan. Paciific Ocean. Action to be performed: At the same time that two Suns simultaneously rise from the Pacific Ocean, two robots will walk/dive into the ocean, dancing an early morning Internet Ballet at the easternmost point of Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun.
[performance] ACTING AS ALIENS / Gazira Babeli / 3-15.11.2009. / galerija Kapelica and Second Life / Ljubljana (Si) Internationally renowned for her activity in the digital reality of Second Life, Gazira Babeli is born there in spring 2006. She is a character in the Matrix, something in between the Oracle and Neo. What she does has been either dubbed as bug, virus, performance or art; what we can say about it is that it subverts the traditional notions of space, time, body, identity and behavior we inherited from our daily experience.
THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR I gave to this talk the title: «the emancipated spectator». As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts, problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other.
FROM BIOPOLITICS TO NECROPOLITICS Intentions of this lecture are: to situate from which point I am talking and to bring into the story new positions of theory, knowledge and analysis; to differentiate in- between biopolitics and necropolitics; to take into an analysis an art performative project produced in Slovenia in order to see if contemporary art services necropolitics; to see the linking of necropolitics and neoliberal capitalism and the relation toward institutions of art and culture...
A LECTURE [about improvisation as performance] This will be about the conditioning and the conditions for improvisation as performance. I won’t talk about improvisation as a technique to create new movement, or as a technique to free the body from habitual movement patterns, or as a technique in contact improvisation to explore movement by physical contact.
TOWARDS THE TECHNO-HUMANITIES: A Manifesto THE CREATIVE ASPECT OF THE HUMANITIES has not yet found its recognition in the established classification and methodology of scientific disciplines. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should there be some active, constructive supplement to them? We know that technology serves as the practical extension ("application") of natural sciences and politics as the extension of social sciences.
THE PASSION OF PROCEDURALISM One of the first comments I could call out after the performance of The Theatre of Repetitions was: finally! Finally an event where music and theatre engage on an autonomous third plane of philosophy, saved from the obsessive search for a suitable Musik+Theater relationship whereby the capacity for representation in music traditionally is weighed against theatrical staging.
THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION When Marx undertook his critique of the capitalistic mode of production, this mode was in its infancy. Marx directed his efforts in such a way as to give them prognostic value. He went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic production and through his presentation showed what could be expected of capitalism in the future. The result was that one could expect it not only to exploit the proletariat with increasing intensity, but ultimately to create conditions which would make it possible to abolish capitalism itself.