Relacije

The Croatian organisations brought together under the umbrella of the Clubture network initiated a regional collaboration of actors in the independent cultural sector. They were motivated by the need to realise certain more demanding programmes through collaboration with cities in the region. A fundamental aim of this programme was to establish an independent regional polycentric network of independent, non-profit organisations (NGOs) and initiatives, based on the principles of intensive collaboration and programme exchange.

The PHASE 1: reLOAD project was a pilot phase of the programme exchange and collaboration project between independent cultural and civil society organisations in the former Yugoslavia.

Kontrapunkt is association of citizens established in December 2001 in Skopje, devoted to developing alternative urban cultural policies and strengthening of the culture of connecting, locally, in the region of South East Europe and internationally. Kontrapunkt is committed to creating alternative public spaces and to questioning the models of cultural action based on the principles of diversity and integration. The goals of Kontrapunkt are to de-monopolise the field of culture and cultural policy, to foster the culture of connecting through networking, building joint platforms and partnerships, exchange of creative and theoretical potentials through implementation of joint projects.

Per.Art is an organization that operates in the field of production, education and promotion of contemporary performing arts. Group gathered around Per.Art organization, since 1999, in cooperation with various other organizations is implementing projects in Serbia and abroad. In 2005 the group has officially registered in Novi Sad as independent non-profit and non-government organization.

Per.Art implements its activities through the following programs: Contemporary dance, Art and Inclusion, City Stage, A.R.C.

PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for the professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who can motorize their own artistic production and knowledge production not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market. Initiated and run by artists, theoreticians and practitioners themselves, PAF is a user-created, user-innovative informal institution. Neither a production-house and venue, nor a research-center, it is a platform for everyone who wants to expand possibilities and interests in his/her own working practice.

Maska, Journal for Performing Arts is published in three double issues a year, each issue dedicated to one specific topic. In recent issues the authors have thus focused upon the unbearable lightness of artistic freedom, the politics of presenting, the performativity of political protest, the postdramatic condition, dance and politics, vision and visuality, theatrical strategies, performance education, new European drama, genetic art, dramaturgy of dance, theory on stage, eroticism, new Eastern art and theory, the inventory of the nineties, the pleasure of the automaton, Gestus, etc. Apart from articles related to chosen topics, the magazine also includes interviews with artists and theoreticians, reviews of performances and books, articles on the hidden phenomena in contemporary performing arts, research findings etc.

Other scene is a wide and flexible platform of the Belgrade independent scene. It gathers organizations, groups, and individuals involved in improvement work of a legal and infrastructural status of the independent scene; redistribution of public spaces; increasing of transparency of operational mechanisms and protocols of responsible institutions in arts and culture; as well as presence of the independent scene in media and public space. Strategies of the Other Scene in the field of cultural policies are: integration of the independent scene “bottom-up” (self-organization of actors), increasing of its visibility, dialogue/pressure on the responsible institutions and internal coordination of activities.

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. Until 2000 FRAKCIJA has published one international issue every year, in collaboration with various production units, performing arts centres and festivals, such as Intercult (Stockholm), International Sommertheater Festival (Hamburg), Aarhus Festuge, Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff) and DANCE festival (Munich).