BADco. invites you to a performative intervention in public space:

Two Groups Working

10.11.2018 at 12:00 @ Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Šubićeva 29, Zagreb, Croatia

Participating:
Mia Štark, Espi Tomičić, Romina Tonković, Vida Zelić

The performative intervention in public space Two Groups Working is a continuation of the artistic research process City, Labor in the framework of the project Labor of panic that brings together BADco. with a younger generation of artists, thematizing and making visible the topic of unproductive labor in society and in the arts.

In the tense space between imagination and labor BADco. explores the contemporary role of the artist in relations of production and artistic practices, the social and economic aspects of artistic labor, the command of productivity and the valorization of artistic labor outside of the aesthetic sphere of social production.

Thank you to Gallery Miroslav Kraljević.

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Labor of panic is a three-year choreographic research and production process by Zagreb's performance collective BADco. that takes its cue from the work done to prevent emergencies and disasters. This pre-emptive work stands in a paradoxical relation to production – by pre-empting the need for emergency response, it is aimed at producing negation. The title Labor of Panic echoes the title of Paul Virilio’s City of Panic, where Virilio, analyzing the city as a target of terror and as a fulcrum of securitization, draws comparisons between the logic of creation without creation in art and in society at large. While the terrorism produces events as disasters, as ruptures of continuity, the work of securitization produces a double negation, a negation of negation, almost an aesthetic operation on the surface of the city that is made transparent, sanitized and surveilled - the city that constructs panic by policing public space, segregating social groups, fencing off immigrants, redistributing bodies in space. As the work of securitization grows, so grows the generalized insecurity in society – unstable employment, imaginary threats, disaster scenarios... All this transforms the city in the present into an unusual confluence of museal and theatrical dispositives – a spectated and curated theater of operations.

Our artistic approach to the securitization of the city will be based on various forms of analysis of organization of bodies in space and social choreography. We wish to make these opaque processes and relations visible by playing with their temporal dimensions. A potential emergency becomes a construct that emerges from the work of its prevention. That construction we intend to explore by engaging with emergency scenarios, response protocols and response units – such as firefighters, paramedics and rescue operations. The project unfolds in two tracks – production track and workshop, research and residency track, and includes a number of mostly younger artists – dancers, choreographers, actors, dramaturges and visual artists.

The project Labor of panic by BADco. and Drugo more is realized in the framework of the Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture flagship Dopolavoro, with support by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb's City Office for Culture. The work of BADco. is supported by the Foundation Kultura Nova.