BADco.

BADco. invites you to the symposium and artistic programme organized in partnership with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA and the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb

Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion

21.-24. March 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia

“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is a proposal to examine relations between the present-day modalities of time and the production of forms of life. The symposium will bring together a number of prominent international scholars and artists to share their thoughts on how to critically address the ways time conditions labor, affect and values, and how this then gets reflected in performance and media. The rise of new precarious forms of work and flexible organization of working time, as well as changes in the content and the nature of work, lead to a corresponding search for balance among the various forms of social time. “Time-scarcity” therefore becomes a relevant topic not only from a social or biological perspective, but also as a dramaturgical and performative problem. Having developed in the 20th century in connection with the principles of Fordism and Taylorism (endless motion, speed of execution, oscillation between order and chaos, the regulated and the coincidental), the development of contemporary performance, especially dance, over the last two decades has reflected the deep changes brought about by post-Fordist modes of labour (cognitive and affective virtuosity, multi-layered temporality, proximity, collaboration processes, openness of work, etc.). In this sense, different choreographic practices should not be understood only as aesthetic practices, but also as wider social processes of distributing bodies in time and space. Simultaneously, the pervasive erosion of differences between film, television, and computers and linked temporal experiences of technologies of work, travel, communication, and vision results in new ideologies of speed and compression, which opens new possibilities to rethink elaborative slowness and strategies of recapitulation in performance.

Program:
21.03.2013
18.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo Bojan Djordjev: What I have Learned about Capitalism – (never ending self) lecture performance
20.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo BADco.: Is There Life On Stage? – performance

22. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama The research group of Maska’s Seminar for Contemporary Performing Arts: Broken Lecture
12.45 @ mama Nik Wakefield:  A Genealogy of Performance Itself: Bergsonian Memory and Documentation
13.15 @ mama Tomislav Medak: Theatre and Totality

17.00 @ mama Sean Cubitt: Visible time
18.00 @ mama Marie-Luise Angerer: Too Much Time

19.30 @ mama Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović (TkH – Walking Theory, Belgrade): Public Sphere by Performance and Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body – book and film presentation

23. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama Karin Harrasser: “There, everybody who stutters, is obliged to limp”. Time-Images in Heiner Göbbels, Alexander Kluge, Samuel Beckett
12.00 @ mama Goran Sergej Pristaš: The Time After (In)Completion
13.00 @ ZPC Marjana Krajač: Manual For Empty Spaces – entering the performance – performance

17.00 @ mama Benjamin Noys: The War of Time: Occupation, Resistance, Communization
18.00 @ mama Stephen Zepke: Art, Communization and the Biopolitical Event

19.00  @ Gallery Nova Franck Leibovici: Formes de vie – book presentation
20.00 @ Theatre &TD Saška Rakef: The Debt of Rakef Saška – performance

24. 03.2013
21.00 @ Cinema Tuškanac Nicolas Rey: Differently, Molussia – film screening

This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and time. More concretely, it was motivated by BADco.’s work on the development of imaging technologies and their application in performative settings, and it revolves around inquiry of images and performances of time in the technologically driven production – both in the capitalist economic production, in the work with technologies on-stage and in the work of dance as an old technology.

The symposium is a part of our participation in the project “TIMeSCAPES – Images and performance of time in late capitalism.” TIMeSCAPES is a long-term artistic research and production platform initiated by five cultural organizations: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), Walking Theory (RS), Science Communications Research (A) and Film-protufilm (HR). It brings together four organizations, whose internationally renowned artistic and cultural practice is rooted in research, publishing and discourse, with one science-oriented organization developing methodologies of artistic research. The double objective is to research and artistically reflect the transversal issue of time that cuts across economy, society and art: structure of working time in different economic contexts, temporal experience in technologies, performative dramaturgies of time, etc.; while at the same time tackling the issue that has acute resonance in cultural and academic contexts across Europe: what should the models and institutions of artistic research be, given the constraints of time, money and mobility that artists face.

The attendant artistic program is organized in collaboration with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, Academy of Drama Arts – University of Zagreb, POGON  – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Culture of Change – Student Center, What, How and for Whom/WHW and Zagreb Dance Center.

Concept, organization and coordination: Goran Sergej Pristaš, Jasna Žmak & Tomislav Medak
Production: Lovro Rumiha

“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is part of TIMeSCAPES, Images and performances of time in late capitalism, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), Maska (Ljubljana), Science Communications Research (Vienna), Walking Theory (Belgrade), Film-protufilm (Zagreb) and Academy Of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
The symposium and artistic programme are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb and Institut français de Zagreb.

BADco: “Is There Life on Stage?”, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. vas poziva da prisustvujete simpoziju i umjetničkom programu organiziranom u suradnji s Multimedijalnim institutom/MAMA i Akademijom dramske umjetnosti Sveučilista u Zagrebu

Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje

21.-24. ožujka 2013. u Zagrebu

Simpozij “Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje” uzima kao polazište za istraživanje konvergencija između vremenskih struktura, slika vremena i proizvodnje oblika života. Simpozij će okupiti niz stručnjaka i umjetnika u razmjeni mišljenja o kritičkom pristupu načinima na koje vrijeme uvjetuje rad, afekte i vrijednosti te kako se to odražava u izvedbenim i medijskim umjetnostima. Uvođenje novih oblika rada i organizacije radnog vremena vodi u potragu za ravnotežom među različitim formama društvenog vremena. “Nedostatak vremena” time postaje ne samo važna tema iz društvene i biološke perspektive, nego i dramaturški i izvedbeni problem. U dvadesetom stoljeću izvedba se razvijala u korespondenciji s principima fordizma – neprestano kretanje, brzina, oscilacija između reda i kaosa, reguliranog i slučajnog. Suvremena izvedba, prije svega ples, u posljednje dvije dekade odražava duboke promjene postfordističkih načina proizvodnje (kognitivna i afektivna virtuoznost, višeslojna temporalnost, neposrednost, suradnički procesi, otvorenost djela itd.) Shodno tome, različiti koreografski procesi ne mogu se samo shvaćati kao umjetničke prakse, nego i kao širi društveni procesi raspoređivanja tijela u vremenu i prostoru. Istovremeno općeprisutno dokidanje razlika između filma, televizije i kompjutora te urušavanje različitosti među njima odgovarajućim vremenskim iskustvima kroz tehnologije rada, putovanja, komunikacije i gledanja rezultiraju novim ideologijama brzine i sažimanja koje otvaraju mogućnosti promišljanja izlagačke sporosti i strategije rekapitulacije u izvedbi.

Program (sva dogadjanja su na engleskom jeziku):
21.03.2013
18.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo Bojan Đorđev: What I have Learned about Capitalism – (beskrajno samo) izvedbeno predavanje
20.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo BADco.: Ima li života na sceni? – predstava

22. 03.2013
11.00 @ Mama Istraživačka grupa Maskinog Seminara za suvremenu izvedbenu umjetnost: Broken Lecture
12.45 @ Mama Nik Wakefield:  A Genealogy of Performance Itself: Bergsonian Memory and Documentation
13.15 @ Mama Tomislav Medak: Theatre and Totality

17.00 @ Mama Sean Cubitt: Visible time – keynote
18.00 @ Mama Marie-Luise Angerer: Too Much Time – keynote

19.30 @ Mama Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda i Ana Vujanović (TkH – Teorija koja hoda, Beograd): Public Sphere by Performance and Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body – predstavljanje knjige i filma

23. 03.2013
11.00 @ Mama Karin Harrasser: “There, everybody who stutters, is obliged to limp”. Time-Images in Heiner Göbbels, Alexander Kluge, Samuel Beckett
11.30 @ Mama Goran Sergej Pristaš: The Time After (In)Completion
13.00 @ ZPC Marjana Krajač: Manual For Empty Spaces – entering the performance – predstava

17.00 @ Mama Benjamin Noys: The War of Time: Occupation, Resistance, Communization -keynote
18.00 @ Mama Stephen Zepke: Art, Communization and the Biopolitical Event – keynote

19.00 @ Galerija Nova Franck Leibovici: Formes de vie – predstavljanje knjige
20.00 @ Teatar &TD Saška Rakef: The Debt of Rakef Saška – predstava

24. 03.2013
21.00 @ Kino Tuškanac Nicolas Rey: Differently, Molussia – projekcija filma

Simpozij i njegova tema nastavak su umjetničkog interesa BADco. za razmatranjem poveznica izvedbe i vremena. Naše istraživanje, vezano je za kritičko promišljanje različitih struktura vremena kako u kontekstu kapitalističke ekonomske proizvodnje, u radu s tehnologijama na sceni, tako i u radu plesa kao stare tehnologije.

Simpozij je dio  međunarodnog projekta “TIMeSCAPES – Slike i izvedbe vremena u kasnom kapitalizmu.” TIMeSCAPES je višegodišnje umjetničko istraživanje i produkcijska platforma  šestoro organizacija: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), TkH – Teorija koja hoda (RS), Science Communications Research (A) i Film-protufilm (HR). Projekt povezuje četiri organizacije čija je međunarodno priznata umjetnička i kulturna praksa ukorijenjena u istraživanju, izdavaštvu i teoriji s jednom znanstveno orijentiranom organizacijom koja razvija metodologije umjetničkog istraživanja. Projekt ima cilj istraživati i umjetnički se baviti temom vremena koja se proteže kroz ekonomiju, društvo i umjetnost: strukturama radnog vremena u različitim ekonomskim kontekstima; iskustvom vremena u tehnologijama; izvedbenim dramaturgijama vremena itd. Istovremeno projekt se metodološki bavi problemom od akutnog značaja za kulturne i akademske kontekste diljem Europe: kakvi bi trebali biti modeli i institucije umjetničkog istraživanja s obzirom na ograničenja vremena, novca i mobilnosti s kojima se umjetnici susreću.

Umjetnički program BADco. organizira u suradnji s Multimedijalnim institutom/MAMA, Akademijom dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, POGON – Zagrebačkim centrom za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade, Kulturom promjene – Studentski centar, Što, kako i za koga/WHW, i Zagrebačkim plesnim centrom.

Koncept, organizacija i koordinacija: Goran Sergej Pristaš, Jasna Žmak i Tomislav Medak
Produkcija: Lovro Rumiha

“Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje” dio je projekta “TIMeSCAPES – Slike i izvedbe vremena u kasnom kapitalizmu.” TIMeSCAPES je višegodišnje umjetničko istraživanje i produkcijska platforma šestoro organizacija: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), TkH – Teorija koja hoda (RS), Science Communications Research (A) i Film-protufilm (HR). Platforma TIMeSCAPES je podržana od programa Kultura Evropske unije.
Simpozij i umjetnički program podržavaju Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske, Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport Grada Zagreba i Francuski institut.