theory

Andrew Hewitt: Choreography is a way of thinking about the relationship of aesthetics to politics

[Interviewed by: Goran Sergej Pristaš ]

Frakcija: The key concept and the title of your book is “social choreography” and you use it in relation to both dance and the aesthetic of everyday movement. How do you frame that concept and how is it related to choreography as artistic practice? Andrew Hewitt: My methodology of “social choreography” is rooted in an attempt to think the aesthetic as it operates at the very base of social experience.

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Critical Art Ensemble

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:: Frakcija

Frakcija, Performing Arts Magazine, was established ten years ago by a group of dramaturgs, theatre theoreticians, critics and artists based in Zagreb. From its first issue FRAKCIJA has been providing a theoretical and critical support for projects that were of marginal interest to the (not only Croatian) mainstream media, theatre criticism and official drama and theatre studies.

FROM BIOPOLITICS TO NECROPOLITICS

[Marina Gržinić]

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...

:: IMPRESSUM

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:: Maska

Maska, Journal for Performing Arts is published in three double issues a year, each issue dedicated to one specific topic.

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Prelom collective

Prelom collective http://www.prelomkolektiv.org

SARMA: online platform for theory of dance and performance

SARMA: online platform for theory of dance and performance http://www.sarma.be

THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR

[Jacques Rancière]

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.

THE PASSION OF PROCEDURALISM

[Bojana Cvejić]

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

[Robert Luxemburg]

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.

TkH (Walking Theory)

TkH (Walking Theory) http://www.tkh-generator.net

:: TkH 10

subject of the issue: A SELECTION 01-10 (English edition)
Belgrade, December 2005/ January 2006
TkH-centre

:: TkH 13

subject of the issue: SELF-EDUCATION: DOCUMENTA 12 MAGAZINES – “WHAT IS TO BE DONE? (EDUCATION)”
Belgrade, September 2007
TkH-centar, in collaboration with Bitef theatre

:: TkH 15

subject of the issue: SELF-EDUCATION: GOAT TRACKS OF SELF-EDUCATION
Belgrade, January 2008
TkH-centre, in collaboration with Bitef theatre

:: TkH 16

subject of the issue: RIGHT TO THEORY
Belgrade, November 2008.
TkH-centre

:: TkH 2

subject of the issue: BEYOND "EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH"
Belgrade, September 2001
CENPI

:: TkH 3

subject of the issue: NEW (THEORIES OF) DRAMATURGY
Belgrade, April 2002
TkH-centre

:: TkH 4

subject of the issue: NEW DANCE / NEW THEORIES
Belgrade, August 2002
TkH-centre

:: TkH 5

subject of the issue: PERFORMING PERFORMANCE IN PERFORMING ARTS – 1 (straight)
Belgrade, September 2003
TkH-centre

:: TkH 6

tsubject of the issue: PERFORMING PERFORMANCE IN PERFORMING ARTS – 2 (queer)
Belgrade, December 2003
TkH-centre

:: TkH 7

subject of the issue: DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
Belgrade, June 2004
TkH-centre

:: TkH 8

subject of the issue: THE OTHER SCENE OF AVANT-GUARDE
Belgrade, December 2004
TkH-centre

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TOWARDS THE TECHNO-HUMANITIES: A Manifesto

[Mikhail N. Epstein ]

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.

[call for applications] AKADEMIE SCHLOSS SOLITUDE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME / deadline: 31.10.2008. / Stuttgart

For the twelfth time in 18 years the international residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude - located in Stuttgart, Germany - is granting approx. 65 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: Architecture, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Literature, Music/Sound and Video/Film/New Media.

[call for applications] IMAGINARY PROPERTY -- research project / deadline: 15 June 2008 / Jan van Eyck Academie

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the department of Design.

[call for applications] STEIRISCHERHERBST - Herbst Academy 09 / deadline: 31. 07. 2009. / Graz

The Herbst Academy 2009 takes place within Steirischer Herbst; in Graz, Austria, in October 2009. It consists of 2 workshops for students, artists, theorists and others. Workshop 1: A Long Memory of Cocaine; Modernity and the transformations of value and labour (by Max Hinderer). Workshop 2: Stratagames - A Theatre of Operations (by Tomislav Medak, Sergej Goran Pristas & Ivana Ivković / BADco).

[call for projects] ADVANCED PERFORMANCE TRAINING :: postgraduate program / deadline : 10. 01. 2009. / Belgium

APT is post-graduate training programme, part of PoPoK. It is an open research environment, based on the principles of self-education and collaboration. During a 12 month trajectory the participants are invited to develop their personal research project, in 3 separate blocks of 3 months.

[call/reminder] PAF: WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) / 26-12-09 - 03-01-10 / St.Erme (Fr)

The WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) 2009 will be from 26/12/09-3/1/10. You are free to come for a longer or shorter time. You are invited to make proposals for lectures, workshops, showings, classes or discussions.

[international symposium] PARALLEL-SLALOM I : CINEMATIC MODES OF CHOREOGRAPHY / 12-14. 12. 2008. / CDU, Zagreb

Simpozij ce se koncentrirati na kinematografske moduse koreografije (moduse koreo-filma, kinematografskog misljenja i prakse u plesu) i time odvesti korak dalje pretpostavke i teme predlozene tijekom Filmskih mutacija: festivala nevidljivog filma, jedne od osovina EDA projekta.

[lecture - performance] FRONTBILDUNG (Hamburg) / September 30, 2009, 7 pm / Rex, Belgrade

Prelom Collective in collaboration with Cultural Centre REX invites you to a Frontbildung lecture. The lecture will focus on different methods of analysing the struggle of cultural workers in Hamburg. Combining performance and lecture, Frontbildung will dedicate special attention to the structure of self-organized groups in relation to the current reorganization of institutions.

[new book] METAFORAS.ORG -- free online arts and technology textbook

This dynamic website explores the aesthetic and historical conditions of digital media’s exciting multifaceted dialog. Profuse and imaginative illustrations, wikis, chronologies, and multimedia examples are an engaging aid to designers, artists and humanists.

[new book] STATE ON STAGE, The impact of public policies on the performing arts in Europe

State on Stage tunes in on the relationship between governments and performing arts in European countries over the past fifteen years. In order to survive, performing arts organizations in Europe must adapt to ongoing changes in the artistic, commercial and political climate.

[open call] SEMINAR OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS (2009/2010) - Maska & Cankarjev dom / deadline: 30. 09. 2009. / Ljubljana

We invite you to enroll into the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts. In the 2009/2010 school year, the seminar will take place under the heading Artistic and Social Assemblage of Bodies: Contemporary Performing Arts and the Powerlessness of the Political. In its ninth consecutive year, the Seminar will again be composed of internal lectures, a series of public lectures and four theoretical and practical workshops.