03.05.2012 20:30 @ Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse Normandie, Caen, France

In collaboration with Perforacije Festival

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Ako ste u Caenu pogledajte koreografiju Nikoline Pristaš POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu!

03.05.2012 20:30 @ Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse Normandie, Caen, Francuska

U suradnji s festivalom Perforacije

22.04.2012 16:00 @ Minoritensäle, Graz, Austria

04.05.2012 21:00 @ Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia // Platforma.HR

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Ako ste u Grazu ili u Zagrebu pogledajte koreografiju Točka sabiranja Zrinke Užbinec i Ane Kreitmeyer!

BADco. "Point of Convergence", Photo: Tomislav Medak

06.04.2012 20:00 @ Serbian National Theater, Novi Sad, Serbia

11.04.2012 20:15 @ BUDA Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium

14.04.2012 20:30 @ TQW – Halle G, Vienna, Austria

25.04.2012 20:00 @ Zagreb Youth Theater, Zagreb, Croatia

BADco. "Black and Forth", 2012, Photo: Dinko Rupcic

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Artaud Forum 2: Konnecting Gestures

International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies

30.03.-01.04.2012 @ Antonin Artaud Performance Centre, Brunel University, London, UK

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Real Time Settings for Ner[d/v]es

exhibition

03.04.2012 19:00 @ ŠKUC Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Organized by: ljudmila – digital media lab, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana

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Whatever Dance Toolbox @ Academy of Art, Djure Jaksica 7, Novi Sad, Serbia

01.04.2012 – public presentation

02.-05.04.2012 – workshop

Organized by: Per Art, Novi Sad & BADco.

BADco. "Whatever Dance Toolbox"

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.

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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.

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić

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.

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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.

We invite you to the opening of the installation

Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space

with a guided exhibition walk-thru

28.02.2012 19:00 @ Gallery Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space", Venice Biennale, 2011, photo: Ivan Kuharić

The focus of the exhibition is on a critical discourse based on the thematisation of the procedures of watching, modes of spectating, and the politics of attention, within exhibition conventions and beyond. The title of the exhibition, One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching, a quote taken from Tomislav Gotovac, in many ways summarises Gotovac’s artistic credo, but it is also a demand that governed the decision to engage with his works in the Croatian presentation at the Venice Biennial, as in the new exhibition in Zagreb.

The statement “One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching” is ubiquitous enough to include a demand for us to take Responsibility for Things Seen, which is the title of the site-specific installation by BADco. Conceptualising the absence of performers and the complex field of friction between a stage and exhibition space, BADco.’s installation sets the spatial parameters of the exhibition. On the other hand, Gotovac’s work cannot escape the conditions and procedures set by BADco.’s installation which is concerned with the study of “the power of the image to capture our attention”.

Gallery Nova also presents the work of Slobodan Šijan A Place in the Sun organized by the Multimedia Institute.

Both exhibitions open until 24.03.2012

Opening hours of Gallery Nova:
Tue – Fri: 12:00-20:00
Sat: 11:00-14:00

The exhibition is realised in collaboration with the Croatian Film Clubs’ Association and Zagreb Youth Theatre.

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space", Venice Biennale, 2011, photo: Ivan Kuharić

U sklopu zagrebačkog predstavljanja hrvatskog nastupa na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu koji pod naslovom Potrebno je živjeti samouvjereno… gledajući na poziv kustoskog kolektiva Što, kako i za koga/WHW predstavlja rad Antonia G. Lauera aka Tomislava Gotovaca i BADco.

Pozivamo vas na otvorenje instalacije

Odgovornost za viđeno: Priče iz negativnog prostora

uz vodstvo kroz izložbu

28.02.2012. 19:00 @ Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb

U fokusu izložbe Potrebno je živjeti samouvjereno… gledajući kritički je diskurs utemeljen na tematizaciji procedura gledanja, načina promatranja i politika pažnje, unutar i izvan konvencija izložbe. Naslov izložbe, citat Tomislava Gotovca, na mnoge načine sumira Gotovčev umjetnički kredo, ali je također i zahtjev koji je upravljao prezentacijom u sklopu predstavljanja Hrvatske na prošlogodišnjem 54. Venecijanskom bijenalu, kao i postavom nove verzije izložbe u Zagrebu.

Izjava “Potrebno je živjeti samouvjereno… gledajući” dovoljno je sveobuhvatna da uključuje zahtjev da preuzmemo odgovornost za viđeno, što je (dio) naziva prostorno specifične instalacije BADco. Konceptualiziranjem odsutnosti izvođača i kompleksnog polja trenja između pozornice i izložbenog prostora, njihova instalacija postavlja prostorne parametre izložbe, uzimajući u obzir selekciju i uvjete Gotovčeve prezentacije. S druge strane, Gotovčevi radovi ne mogu uteći uvjetima i procedurama koje postavlja BADco. instalacija, čiji je glavni interes u proučavanju “moći slika da zarobe našu pažnju”.

Galerija Nova također predstavlja rad Slobodana Šijana Mjesto pod suncem u organizaciji Multimedijalnog instituta.

Obje izložbe su otvorene do 24.03.2012.

Radno vrijeme Galerije Nova:
utorak – petak: 12:00-20:00
subota: 11:00-14:00
Izlozba je realizirana u suradnji s Hrvatskim filmskim savezom i Zagrebačkim kazalištem mladih.

WHATEVER #3
POST-HOC DRAMATURGY: reflections on poetics of presentation and circulation in performing arts

a lab reader

UPDATE: NEW TEXT IN FEBRUARY 2012!

The project WHATEVER is a series of publications related to the research either conducted by BADco. or within it’s collaborative projects.

WHATEVER #3, POST-HOC DRAMATURGY is a reader resulting from 10 Days 1 Unity, a ten-day laboratory that brought together primarily two groups of artists: artists around the collective 6m1l and members of the performing collective BADco. who were joined by a smaller number of the Zagreb-based performers, choreographers, dramaturgs and theater directors.

A Systematization of the Lab in Diagram Form #1

A Systematization of the Lab in Diagram Form #2

Tea Tupajić: Is this an Attempt at Democracy?

Saša Asentić: A Post-hoc Dramaturgy

Karin Harrasser: Limping and Flying: On the relationship between poesis and interpretation

Tomislav Medak: Preliminary Thoughts on Poetics After Production – how post-democratic politics, recomposition of labor and real abstraction of trans-national circulation are transforming knowledge production in the arts

Bojana Cvejić: Aesthetically Burdened, Politically Challenged… on the Choreographic Production of Problems

Annie Dorsen talks to Una Bauer: “The pursuit of this discussion, I fear, will inevitably lead to the question of meaning.”

Marko Kostanić: Post–hoc dramaturgy

Esther Belvis Pons: Micro–Method–Performances: finding an unnatural position in post–hoc dramaturgy

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Previous BADco. publications:

Whatever DVD

Whatever Dance Toolbox & Manual

Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader

BADco. izdaje seriju izdanja

WHATEVER #3
POST-HOC DRAMATURGY: reflections on poetics of presentation and circulation in performing arts

izdanje na engleskom jeziku

UPDATE: NOVI TEKST u VELJAČI 2012!

Projekt WHATEVER je serija publikacija koje artikuliraju istraživanja BADco. te naših suradničkih projekata.

WHATEVER #3, POST-HOC DRAMATURGY je rezultat desetodnevnog laboratorija 10 Days 1 Unity koji je okupio prvenstveno dvije skupine autora: umjetnike iz kolektivnog projekta 6M1L te članove BADco. Pridružio nam se i manji broj zagrebačkih izvođača, koreografa, dramaturga, teoretičara, te redatelja.

A Systematization of the Lab in Diagram Form #1

A Systematization of the Lab in Diagram Form #2

Tea Tupajić: Is this an Attempt at Democracy?

Saša Asentić: A Post-hoc Dramaturgy

Karin Harrasser: Limping and Flying: On the relationship between poesis and interpretation

Tomislav Medak: Preliminary Thoughts on Poetics After Production – how post-democratic politics, recomposition of labor and real abstraction of trans-national circulation are transforming knowledge production in the arts

Bojana Cvejić: Aesthetically Burdened, Politically Challenged… on the Choreographic Production of Problems

Annie Dorsen talks to Una Bauer: “The pursuit of this discussion, I fear, will inevitably lead to the question of meaning.”

Marko Kostanić: Post–hoc dramaturgy

Esther Belvis Pons: Micro–Method–Performances: finding an unnatural position in post–hoc dramaturgy

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Prethodna BADco. izdanja:

Whatever DVD

Whatever Dance Toolbox & Manual

Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader

The lab and publication are supported by Erste Foundation.

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić

BADco. invites you to see our newest production!

16.-19.02.2012 20:00 @ Zagreb Youth Theater, Teslina 7, Zagreb – performances in Croatian

15.03.2012 21:00 @ Zagreb Youth Theater, Teslina 7, Zagreb – performance in English

They ask you in interviews to disclose your oppressions. You expect those questions but deem them too obvious. Your answer is already prepared: “My work is like science, and science is like pornography. You isolate one detail and expose it to observation, repetition, permutation. In the future everyone will watch only their own porn material, their own experimental home movies… This obsession with isolation and detail, this I call scientific method.

Black and Forth

Performers: Pravdan Devlahović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Danijel Ljuboja, Nikolina Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec

Director: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Choreography: Pravdan Devlahović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Nikolina Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec
Dramaturgy: Ivana Ivković, Tomislav Medak

Software: Daniel Turing
Cinematographer: Dinko Rupčić
Costume design: Silvio Vujičić
Light design: Alan Vukelić
Sound: Jasmin Dasović
Collaborators: Ana Martina Bakić i Ana Ogrizović
Company manager: Lovro Rumiha

The production presents the text Group Enjoyment by Antonio G. Lauer a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac, courtesy of Sarah Gotovac.
Coproducers: BADco., Zagreb Youth Theatre
Supported by: Zagreb City Council for Education, Culture and Sport; Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia
The project was also rehearsed at the Culture Centre Novi Zagreb.

The theatre production Black and Forth is a continuation of the project Responsibility for Things Seen commissioned by the curators’ collective What, How and for Whom/WHW for the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. The audience will have a chance to experience a stage version of the installation presented in Venice. Software developer Daniel Turing has developed an interactive computer system for the project, one that records and stores video material and edits it algorithmically in real time.
The installation and the premiere of the theater production will be first presented in Zagreb in February 2012 as part of the exhibition of the Croatian participation at the 54th Venice Biennale One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching.

Ticket reservation and sales at the Zagreb Youth Theater box-office, Teslina 7, Zagreb.
Box-office is open Mon-Fri 10-20, Sat 10-14 and an hour before the show, Sun an hour before the show.
phone: +385-1-4872554, +385-1-4874582
e-mail: info@zekaem.hr

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić

BADco. vas poziva na izvedbe naše najnovije predstave!

Tamno i natrag

16.-19.02.2012. 20:00 @ Zagrebačko kazalište mladih, Teslina 7, Zagreb

Pitaju vas u intervjuu o Vašim opsesijama. Očekujete takvo pitanje, ali Vam se čini previše predvidljivim. Odgovarate unaprijed planiranim odgovorom: “To što ja radim je poput znanosti, a znanost ima puno sličnosti s pornografijom. Izoliraš jedan detalj i izložiš ga promatranju, ponavljanju, permutacijama. U budućnosti će svi gledati samo svoje porniće, svoje eksperimentalne filmove u kućnom kinu… Ta opsesija izolacijom i detaljem, to ja zovem znanstvenom metodom.”

Izvođači: Pravdan Devlahović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Danijel Ljuboja, Nikolina Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec

Redatelj: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Koreografija: Pravdan Devlahović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Nikolina Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec
Dramaturgija: Ivana Ivković, Tomislav Medak

Softver: Daniel Turing
Snimatelj: Dinko Rupčić
Dizajn kostima: Silvio Vujičić
Dizajn svjetla: Alan Vukelić
Zvuk: Jasmin Dasović
Suradnice na postavu: Ana Martina Bakić i Ana Ogrizović
Producent: Lovro Rumiha

U predstavi se koristi tekst Grupno uživanje Antonia G. Lauera a.k.a.Tomislava Gotovca. Prava ustupila Sarah Gotovac.

Koprodukcija: BADco., Zagrebačko kazalište mladih
Projekt podržan od: Gradskog ureda za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport Grada Zagreba, Ministarstva kulture RH
Projekt je dijelom pripreman u Centru za kulturu Novi Zagreb.

Predstava Tamno i natrag nastavak je projekta Odgovornost za viđeno nastalog  na poziv kustoskog kolektiva Što, kako i za koga/WHW za 54. Venecijanski bijenale. Publika će imati priliku vidjeti i scensku verziju instalacije s venecijanske izložbe. Za potrebe projekta Daniel Turing razvio je interaktivni računalni sustav koji snima i pohranjuje video materijale te ih algoritamski montira u stvarnom vremenu.
Instalacija i premijera predstave bit će izvedeni u sklopu zagrebačkog predstavljanja hrvatskog nastupa na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu pod naslovom Potrebno je živjeti samouvjereno… gledajući u veljači 2012.

Rezervacija i prodaja ulaznica na blagajni Zagrebačkog kazališta mladih, Teslina 7, Zagreb.
Blagajna radi radnim danom od 10 do 20 sati, subotom od 10 do 14 sati i sat vremena prije početka predstave, nedjeljom sat vremena prije početka predstave.
tel: +385-1-4872554, +385-1-4874582
e-mail: info@zekaem.hr

Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating

March 16-17, 2012 in Zagreb, Croatia

This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and image. More concretely, it was motivated by our most recent work Responsibility 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 six-months exhibition, to pursue the idea of ‘theater by other means’ and to custom develop a database video system that unfolds a particular nexus of body, image and technology.

Who can apply:
If you are a scholar or practitioner working on the nexus of performance, image and technology, if you are working in or between any number of fields such as, but not exclusively: performing arts, visual arts, cinema and expanded cinema, human-machine interaction, technological performance, architecture, neuroscience, we are inviting you to present your research interests in form of a presentation and/or participate in the debates at our symposium “Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating”.

When and where:
The symposium will take place on 16-17 March 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia. The  artistic programme will start on the 15th.

What is the topic:
With “Actionable Image” we propose to explore the experimental encounters between the image and the body — two modalities of organized materiality, agency and receptivity affecting each other, two modes 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 and the scopic regime: 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. 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, that encounter becomes an indeterminate field of negotiation, slippage, misperformance, deterritorialization and reterritorialization… In short, a field of divergences that are themselves frequent subject to experimentation in art.
With this other scene of image in mind, we calls for contributions that will bring their analysis to bear on situations of problematic spectating, strange apparatuses and dispositifs of viewing, agency of images, strategies of performing images and other issues relevant to the nexus of body, image and technology.

The symposium and attendant artistic programme will include a.o., contributions by artists and scholars such as Jonathan Beller, Maaike Bleeker, Vlatka Horvat, Stephen Zepke and BADco.

What are the keywords:
performance and image, performed image, image in performance, image and corporeality, agency of image, actionable image, algorithmic cinema, image and interface, iconicity of image, apparatuses and dispositifs of viewing, cinematic viewing vs theatrical viewing, image and presence/absence…

How to apply and when is the deadline:
We are looking for contributions of various formats, including but not limited to papers, short presentations, demonstrations and participation in the debate, up to 30 minutes in length. If you want to participate in the symposium, please send us a short note stating your topical interests, discussion points, format, etc. and a short description of your background. While we cannot cover your expenses, we can help you find convenient travel arrangement and affordable accommodation, and we will do our best to address your interests and provide an insightful debate.

All proposals should be sent in by 10 February 2012 to: tom@badco.hr.
You’ll be notified of our decision shortly thereafter.

Publication:
A special issue of Frakcija Performing Arts Journal will accompany the symposium. We are looking for contributions of those taking part in the symposium, but also others who cannot join us in Zagreb but are researching the topic in academic or artistic formats. Articles, essays and artist’s page(s) proposals will be considered. The submission deadline is March 2, publication June 2012. All proposals (and any questions on submission) should be sent to: ivana@badco.hr

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The symposium and attendant artistic program are organized in collaboration with Multimedia Institute/MAMA and the curatorial collective What, How and for Whom/WHW.

The symposium Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating is part 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.