We invite you to a workshop presentation and dance performance, the first activities of a three-year choreographic research and production process Labor of Panic by Zagreb's performance collective BADco. with collaborators.

Herbarium

- dance performance choreographed and performed by Antonia Dorbić, Marta Krešić and Lana Šprajcer, dramaturgy by Nina Gojić

29. June 2018 at Baths Diana, Ilica 8, Zagreb

12. July 2018 at 20:00 at the Museum of modern and contemporary art, Rijeka

This Herbarium is a different kind of collection, one that instead of pressed plant matter maintains movement and forms that take place between two catastrophes, between two natural or other disasters. Herbarium emerged from a curiosity about ecology as "the science of planetary housekeeping" and from the idea of excess in dance as waste material, whereby this surplus becomes understood as a source of information and an archive of the processes recycled through dance. Herbarium employs a searching gaze that looks around instead of progressively forward, it focuses attention on what is already there, stays with the trouble we already live in. This gaze is a cut in relation to the idea of expansion and progress, and is rather interested in horizontal processes of work, in ways in which they are aligned with other elements of their environment, instead of means that place the human body in a hierarchically superior position. We explored movement outside our bodies, in the abundance of things where our bodies are just some among the many: amongst the organisms that arise after the catastrophe, the drying and rotting plants, the sedimented and melding lichens, the trees that can not get up and leave. The choreography of Herbarium activates principles of deficiency, lack, unproductiveness and deceleration in its relation to human and other than human bodies. Herbarium evokes a shelter that recognizes the idea of slow violence by investigating visibility regimes that break the relationship with spectacular depictions of environmental destruction. Instead, it articulates a curiosity for the kind of parasitism that affirms inhabiting of destroyed space, and waits.
Herbarium is interested in the interdependence of different forms of life and environment, it imagines a snail as it falls asleep and dreams of being a mushroom.

Informed by the work of authors such as André Lepecki, Rob Nixon, Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, T.J. Demos, Paul Virilio and Werner Herzog.

Choreography and performance: Antonia Dorbić, Marta Krešić, Lana Šprajcer
Dramaturgy: Nina Gojić
Costume design: Katarina Perić
Music: Adam Lončar
Visual design: Antonia Dorbić and Roko Jurjević
Production: Romana Brajša (executive producer) and Ana Letunić (on behalf of the artistic organization Mašina)

The project Herbarium is a co-production of Artistic organization Mašina and BADco., realized in the framework of the Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture flagship Dopolavoro, with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

City, panic

- workshop presentation by BADco.

10. July 2018 at 12:00 at the Museum of modern and contemporary art, Rijeka

The five-day workshop (6th - 10th July 2018) will introduce students to problems of presenting in gallery, "white cube" space that does not summarize but disassembles presentation. We'll work through various exercises of developing performance materials, overlapping story-lines and rhythmic composition of performance to introduce students of acting and contemporary dance to BADco.'s characteristic diagrammatic presentation methodology.

This workshop is the first step in the project of Labor of Panic that BADco. explores in collaboration with younger artists, thematizing or making visible issues of labor without creation in society and in art.

The workshop is lead by Goran Sergej Pristaš and Nikolina Pristaš.

The workshop is co-organized by BADco. and Drugo more in the framework of the Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture flagship Dopolavoro, in collaboration with the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb and Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka - Acting and Media Studies.

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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.