The symposium and artistic programme Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating are a continuation of BADco.'s interest in relating performance and image. More concretely, they were motivated by our recent installation work Responsiblity for Things Seen that was presented in 2011 within the Croatian participation at the Biennale di Venezia. The work required us, in the absence of performers in the exhibition, to pursue the idea of 'theatre by other means' and to custom develop a database video system that unfolds a particular nexus of body, image and technology. The work presented in Venice was followed up in February by the performance Black and Forth, a performance that itself is premissed conversely on translation of cinematic procedures by means of theatre. With Actionable Image we will bring together a number of prominent international and local artists and scholars working in performing arts, visual arts and film to continue with the exploration of experimental encounters between the image and the body -- two material modalities of expression whose encounters in our age are predominantly arranged, composed and mediated by means of visual technologies. We tend to subscribe to the critique of the domination of image: the unebbing repetition of hegemonic representations, the homogenization of mediatized social experience, the habituation of sensory apparatus to technological artifice. However, understanding the encounter of image and body as a field of performance allows us to explore this encounter beyond the adequation of sensory perception to technological apparatus, of social behaviors to reproduced images. That is, as a mis-encounter where incompatibilites between technology and habit, excess of agency on the side of image or on the side of spectators, interventions in the transmission process, strange situations of viewing emerge. This mis-encounter becomes an indeterminate field of negotiation, slippage, mis-performance, deterritorialization and reterritorialization... In short, a field of divergences that are themselves frequent subject to experimentation in art. Within the scope of this exploration and in the programme of the symposium you'll be able to hear presentations and talks by Jonathan Beller (US), Andrea Božić (HR/NL), Scott deLahunta (US), Britt Hatzius (DE/UK), Vlatka Horvat (HR/UK), Rosanna Irvine / Katrina Brown (UK), Bojana Kunst (SI), Sonja Leboš (HR), Donna Szoke (CA), Manuel Vason (IT/UK), Jasmina Založnik (SI), Stephen Zepke (NZ/AT) and BADco. You'll also be able to see an expanded cinema performance by Bruce McClure (US), a performance-lecture by Bojan Đorđev & Siniša Ilić (RS), and see the installation Responsiblity for Things Seen and the performance Black and Forth by BADco. All events are going to be in English. The symposium and artistic programme are organized by BADco. and in collaboration What, How and for Whom/WHW, Multimedia Institute and SC/Culture of Change. -----

Symposium schedule

location: net.culture club MAMA, Preradovićeva 18, Zagreb Friday,  March 16th: 11.00 - 13.00: Scott deLahunta Andrea Božić Ivana Ivković 13.15 - 14.45: Rosanna Irvine/Katarina Brown Donna Szoke 18.00 - 20.00: Vlatka Horvat Bojana Kunst (via Skype) Saturday, March 17th: 11.00 - 12.15: Tomislav Medak Manuel Vason 12.30 - 13.45: Jasmina Založnik Sonja Leboš Britt Hatzius 16.00 - 18.00: Stephen Zepke Jonathan Beller

Artistic programme

• Tuesday-Friday, 12.00-20.00, Saturday, 11.00-14.00 Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, exhibition One Needs to Live Self-Confidently...Watching, featuring works by Antonio Lauer a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac and BADco., curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW
  • --> guided tour through the exhibition by BADco., in English: Saturday, March 17th, 18.30

• Thursday, March 15th, 21.00, ZeKaeM Theatre, Teslina 7: Black and Forth, performance by BADco., in English

• Friday, March 16th, 21.30, Teatar &TD, Savska 25: expanded cinema performance by Bruce McClure, organized by Multimedia Institute and SC/Culture of Change

• Saturday, March 17th, 19.00, Galerija Nova - Showroom, Teslina 7: Picture by Other Means, performance-lecture by Bojan Đorđev and Siniša Ilić

This symposium is an activity of LABO21 - European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. [caption id="attachment_908" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić"][/caption] Simpozij i umjetnički program Actionable Image je nastavak interesa BADco. za povezivanjem izvedbe i slike. Konkretnije, ono je potaknuto našom instalacijom Odgovornost za viđeno koja je 2011. predstavljena u sklopu hrvatskog sudjelovanja na Venecijanskom bijenalu. Kako je izložbeno djelo pretpostavljalo odsutnost izvođača, netipičnu situaciju za izvedbenu skupinu, rad je nastao polazeći od ideje 'teatra drugim sredstvima' i od namijenski izrađenog računalnog video sistema koji uspostavlja specifične odnose između tijela, slike i tehnologije. Na taj rad koji je predstavljen na Venecijanskom bijenalu u veljači ove godine nadovezala se predstava Tamno i natrag, predstava koja pak polazi od prevođenja procedura kina teatarskim sredstvima. Simpozijem i umjetničkim programom "Actionable Image" okupljamo istaknute međunarodne i lokalne umjetnike i teoretičare koji rade na polju izvedbenih umjetnosti, likovnih umjetnosti i filma kako bismo nastavili s preispitivanjem eksperimentalnih susreta između slike i tijela -- dvaju materijalnih modusa ekspresije čiji su susreti u našem dobu dominantno uređeni, komponirani i posredovani vizualnim tehnologijama. Mi tendiramo prihvatiti kritiku dominacije slika: kritku nepresetane poplave uvijek istih i istih hegemonijskih prikaza, kritiku homogenizacije medijski posredovanog društvenog iskustva, kritiku navikavanja osjetilnog aparata na tehnološki aparat. Međutim, ako susret slike i tijela pojmimo kao izvedbu, to nam omogućuje da taj susret preispitamo izvan pretpostavke usuglašenja osjetila s tehnološkim aparatom, društvenog ponašanja s reproduciranim slikama. To jest, kao promašen, loš, krivi susret u kojemu se pojavljuju diskrepancije tehnologija i navika gledanja, suvišak djelovanja na strani slika ili na strani gledatelja, neobične situacije promatranja. Taj susret postaje neodređeno polje pregovora, klizanja, loše izvedbe, deteritorijalizacije i reteritorijalizacije... Ukratko, polje razilaženja koje je česti predmet umjetničkog eksperimentiranja. Krećući se unutar tog tematskog preispitivanja u programu simpozija simpoziju izlagat će umjetnici i teoretičari: Jonathan Beller (US), Maaike Bleeker (NL), Andrea Božić (HR/NL), Scott deLahunta (US), Britt Hatzius (DE/UK), Vlatka Horvat (HR/UK), Rosanna Irvine / Katrina Brown (UK), Sonja Leboš (HR), Donna Szoke (CA), Manuel Vason (IT/UK), Jasmina Založnik (SI), Stephen Zepke (NZ/AT) and BADco. A u sklopu umjetničkog programa moći ćete vidjeti izvedbu u mediju proširenog kina američkog umjetnika Brucea McClurea, izvedbeno predavanje Bojana Đorđeva i Siniše Ilića (RS) te vidjeti našu instalaciju Odgovornost za viđeno i predstavu Tamno i natrag. Sva događanja su na engleskom jeziku. Simpozij i umjetnički program organizira BADco., a u suradnji s kustoskim kolektivom Što, kako i za koga/WHW, Multimedijalnim institutom i SC/Kulturom promjene. -----

Raspored simpozija

lokacija: klub za net.kulturu MAMA, Preradovićeva 18, Zagreb petak, 16. ožujka: 11.00 - 13.00: Scott deLahunta Andrea Božić Ivana Ivković 13.15 - 14.45: Rosanna Irvine/Katarina Brown Donna Szoke 18.00 - 20.00: Vlatka Horvat Bojana Kunst (via Skype) subota, 17. ožujka: 11.00 - 12.15: Tomislav Medak Manuel Vason 12.30 - 13.45: Jasmina Založnik Sonja Leboš Britt Hatzius 16.00 - 18.00: Stephen Zepke Jonathan Beller

Umjetnički program

• utorak-petak, 12.00-20.00, subota, 11.00-14.00 Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, izložba Potrebno je živjeti samouvjereno… gledajući, predstavlja rad Antonia Lauera a.k.a. Tomislava Gotovaca i BADco., na poziv Što, kako i za koga/WHW
  • --> vođenje kroz izložbu s BADco., na engleskom jeziku: subota, 17. ožujka, 18.30

• četvrtak, 15. ožujka, 21.00, ZeKaeM, Teslina 7: Tamno i natrag, izvedba BADco., na engleskom jeziku

• petak, 16. ožujka, 21.30, Teatar &TD, Savska 25: expanded cinema performance Bruca McClura, u organizaciji Multimedijalnog instituta i SC/Kultura promjene

• subota, 17. ožujka, 19.00, Galerija Nova - Showroom, Teslina 7: Pictures by Other Means, performance-lecture Bojana Đorđeva i Siniše Ilića

Simpozij je aktivnost LABO21 - Evropske platforme za interdisciplinarna istraživanja umjetničkih metodologija partnera BADco. (Zagreb), umjetničkog centra BUDA (Kortrijk), Laboratoriuma (Antwerp) i Sveučilista za cirkus i ples (Stockholm). Platforma LABO21 je podržana od programa Kultura Evropske zajednice.