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.

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

a lab reader

UPDATE: NEW TEXTS and a VIDEO LECTURE in JANUARY 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.

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 TEKSTOVI i VIDEO PREDAVANJE u SIJEČNJU 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.

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.

Is There Life on Stage? – Remainder

15.12.2011 20:00 @  Zagreb Youth Theater, Zagreb

Remainder is the first of a series of performances in the process of the making of BADco.’s new production Is There Life on Stage?. A project that will reach its final phase at the end of 2012, Is There Life on Stage? is an exploration at the intersection of two problem fields: the environment and realism in theater. The work starts from two questions: How to stage an ecosystem? What is the status of reality and document in the isolated ecosystem of the theater?
For the first, announcing performance of the project eight BADco. members have invited eight colleagues to develop a series of micro-performances that will direct the future directions of the production: Goran Ferčec, Oliver Frljić, Aleksandra Janeva, Dubravko Mihanović, Goran Petercol, Jasenko Rasol, Željka Sančanin, Tanja Vrvilo

In co-production with Perforations

The presentation was prepared at the Culture Center Novi Zagreb and Dance Center TALA.

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On invitation of ekscena BADco. is taking part in this year’s Living Room Festival as it happens in Berlin, Madrid, Brussels and Zagreb.

BADroom (or BADco. feat Podroom): A Peer Discussion on Self-Organization

19.12.2011 20:00 @ http://livingroomfestival.wordpress.com/

A self-organized art festival provides an opportunity to discuss artistic self-organization. Thus, we propose to our peers, our colleagues — the participating artists and cultural workers, be they with us physically or through the internet — a discussion starting from a historic document that will serve us as a script. This document is a discussion between the Artistic Worker Co-operative “Podroom” that was published in the first issue of their samizdat “Prvi broj” (“The First Issue”). After three years of running the artist-run gallery “Podroom” in the period 1978-1980, artists Goran Trbuljak, Mladen Stilinović, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Goran Petercol, Ivan Dorogi, Antun Maračić, Boris Demur and Vlado Martek retrospectively discuss the reasons that have lead them to self-organize their own exhibitions, to question the existing institutional setups, to advocate labor rights and to deal with a number of broader issues that deal with the framing of artistic practice. Based on this historic document and questions it suggests, we would like to propose to you, our fellow artists, a discussion on the present moment and present framing of artistic practice.

The discussion based on RZU “Podroom” was concieved in the framework of the project “Removed from the Crowd”, Institute for Duration, Location and Variables (DeLVe), and was originally staged on invitation by the curators Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača at the exhibition “Political Practices of (Post) Yugoslav Art” in the Museum “25. Maj” in Belgrade on the 30th of November 2009. The discussion will be in English.

http://livingroomfestival.wordpress.com/

BADco. vas poziva na prezentaciju projekta

Ima li života na sceni? – Preostalo

15.12.2011 20:00 @ zekaem, Zagreb

Preostalo je prva od ciklusa izvedbi u procesu nastanka nove predstave kolektiva BADco.  Projekt Ima li života na sceni? koji u svoju završnu fazu ulazi krajem 2012. godine, umjetničko je istraživanje u polju dvaju povezanih problemskih skupova: okoliš i realizam u teatru. Rad na predstavi kreće od dva pitanja: Kako inscenirati ekosistem? Koji je status stvarnosti i dokumenta u izoliranom okolišu teatra?
Za prvu, najavnu izvedbu projekta osam članova BADco. pozvali su na suradnju osam kolega izvan kolektiva s kojima razvijaju seriju mikroizvedbi koje će naznačiti polazišne perspektive buduće predstave: Goran Ferčec, Oliver Frljić, Aleksandra Janeva, Dubravko Mihanović, Goran Petercol, Jasenko Rasol, Željka Sančanin, Tanja Vrvilo

Predstava nastaje u koprodukciji s Perforacijama

Prezentacija je pripremana u Centru za kulturu Novi Zagreb i Plesnom centru TALA.

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Na poziv ekscene BADco. sudjeluje u ovogodisnjem izdanju Living Room Festivala koji se paralelno odvija u Berlinu, Briselu, Madridu i Zagrebu.

BADroom (iliti BADco. feat Podroom): Kolegijalni razgovor o samoorganizaciji uz historijski predložak

19.12.2011. 20:00 @ http://livingroomfestival.wordpress.com/

U sklopu samoorganiziranog umjetničkog festivala prilika je voditi razgovor o pitanju umjetničke samoorganizacije. Predlažemo, stoga, Vama, našim kolegama, sudjelujućim umjetnicima i kulturnim radnicima, bilo fizički prisutnim ili uključenim preko internetske telekomunikacije, razgovor temeljem jednog historijskog predloška: razgovora Radne zajednice umjetnika “Poodroom” koji je objavljen u prvom broju njihovog samizdatog biltena pod naslovom “Prvi broj”. Nakon trogodišnjeg djelovanja samoorganizirane galerije “Poodrom” u razdoblju 1978.-1980., umjetnici Goran Trbuljak, Mladen Stilinović, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Goran Petercol, Ivan Dorogi, Antun Maračić, Boris Demur i Vlado Martek rekapituliraju razloge koji su ih ponukali na samoorganizirano izlagačko djelovanje, preispitivanje djelovanja institucija, zagovaranje radnih prava i bavljenje drugim pitanjima koja ulaze u širi dijapazon pitanja oko okvira za umjetničko djelovanje.  Temeljem tog historijskog teksta i pitanja koja otvara mi predlažemo razgovor o našem aktualnom umjetničkom trenutku i okviru za djelovanje.

Razgovor temeljem diskusije RZU “Podroom” je koncipiran u okviru projekta “Izvadjeni iz gomile”, Instituta za trajanje, mjesto i varijable (DeLVe), te prvotno izveden na poticaj kustosica Ivane Bago i Antonie Majače na izložbi “Političke prakse (post-)jugoslavenske umjetnosti” u Muzeju 25. Maj u Beogradu 30. novembra 2009. Razgovor će biti vođen na engleskom.

BEYOND India program for young dance makers

02.-04.12.2011 @ ickamsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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BADco. will present Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space, the site-specific installation and intervention created for the Croatian exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale in the context of

CineDans – Dance on Screen Festival

03.12.2011 10:30 @ debalie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Whatever Dance Toolbox

Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Kreitmeyer i Ivana Ivković iz BADco. će voditi trodnevnu radionicu i trodnevni lab na principima Whatever Dance Toolboxa u sklopu programa

BEYOND India program za mlade plesače i koreografe

02.-04.12.2011. @ ickamsterdam, Amsterdam, Nizozemska

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BADco. predstavlja site-specific instalaciju i intervenciju Odgovornost za viđeno: Priče iz negativnog prostora, rad u sklopu
hrvatskog sudjelovanja na Venecijanskom bijenalu u kontekstu festivala

CineDans – Festival plesa na ekranu

03.12.2011. 10:30 @ debalie, Amsterdam, Nizozemska

1 poor and one 0

27.11.2011 20:00 @ Dom omladine, Belgrade, Serbia

BADco. "1 poor and one 0" (2008), Photo: Wolfgang Silveri

BADco. gostuje na LIMIT – Live art festivalu:

1 siromašan i jedna 0

27.11.2011. 20:00 @ Dom omladine, Beograd, Srbija

SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare

12.11.2011 20:00 @ Bitef Teatar, Skver Mire Trailovic 1, Belgrade, Serbia

Composition and modulation: Nikolina Pristaš
Notes and blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristaš

Semi-inspired by the work of: Joseph Beuys, Francois Delsarte, Franz Kafka, Steven Shaviro, Bruno Latour and Graham Harman

Tickets at the Bitef Theater box office, phone (prefix for Serbia): 069/8992400

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BADco. takes part in the Plumpe Spekulation event organized by Science Communications in the context of the project “The Art of Knowing (the limits of knowledge)”:

1 poor and one 0

18.11.2011 20:00 @ Theater Garage X, Petersplatz, Vienna, Austria

BADco. members Tomislav Medak, Nikolina Pristaš and Goran Sergej Pristaš will also present in the “Night lectures” program.

BADco. "SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare"

Teorija koja hoda (TkH) u okviru projekta Balcan Can Contemporary i BITEF teatar predstavljaju:

POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu

12.11.2011. 20:00 @ Bitef Teatar, Skver Mire Trailović 1, Beograd, Srbija

Kompozicija i modulacije: Nikolina Pristaš
Biljeske i blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristaš

Poluinspirirano radovima: Josepha Beuysa, Francoisa Delsartea, Franza Kafke, Stevena Shavira, Brune Latoura i Grahama Harmana

Prodaja karata na blagajni Bitef teatra, broj telefona: 069/8992400

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U organizaciji Science Communications, BADco. gostuje u sklopu dogadjanja Plumpe Spekulation projekta “The Art of Knowing (the limits of knowledge)”:

1 siromašan i jedna 0

18.11.2011. 20:00 @ Theater Garage X, Petersplatz, Beč, Austrija

Članovi BADco. Tomislav Medak, Nikolina Pristaš i Goran Sergej Pristaš također sudjeluju kraćim izlaganjima u programu “Noćnih lekcija”.

SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare

07.10.2011 20:00 @ Serbian National Theater, Novi Sad, Serbia

Composition and modulation: Nikolina Pristaš
Notes and blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristaš

Semi-inspired by the work of: Joseph Beuys, Francois Delsarte, Franz Kafka, Steven Shaviro, Bruno Latour and Graham Harman

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Nikolina Pristaš from BADco. will hold a one-day workshop in Novi Sad based on the principles of Whatever Dance Toolbox:

Whatever Dance Toolbox

06.10.2011. 13:30-17:30 @ Serbian National Theater, Novi Sad, Serbia

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We are also taking part at the Platforma.hr Festival in Zagreb!

SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare

15.10.2011 22:00 (new time!) @ Dance Center, Ilica 5, Zagreb, Croatia

Per.Art predstavlja BADco. u Novom Sadu!

POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu

07.10.2011. 20:00 @ Srpsko narodno pozorište, Novi Sad, Srbija

Kompozicija i modulacije: Nikolina Pristaš
Bilješke i blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristaš

Poluinspirirano radovima: Josepha Beuysa, Francoisa Delsartea, Franza Kafke, Stevena Shavira, Brune Latoura i Grahama Harmana

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Nikolina Pristaš iz BADco. će u Novom Sadu održati jednodnevnu radionicu temeljenu na principima Whatever Dance Toolboxa u sklopu dogadjanja:

Whatever Dance Toolbox

06.10.2011. 13:30-17:30 @ Srpsko narodno pozorište, Novi Sad, Srbija

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Sudjelujemo i na Platformi.hr u Zagrebu!

POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu

15.10.2011. 22:00 (novo vrijeme!) @ Plesni centar, Ilica 5, Zagreb

Digital Futures in Dance

08.-10. September 2011, Pavilion Dance, Westover Road, Bournemouth, UK

Digital Futures in Dance is an opportunity for artists, promoters, producers, venues, academics and creative and digital companies to come together to discuss future possibilities for dance and technology. With an increasing growth in interdisciplinary practice, Digital Futures in Dance investigates how new digital technologies create new conditions for choreographing and presenting dance. The conference is structured around three interrelated themes explored through presentations, workshops, performances and installations.

Participants: Anthony Lilley, Silke Z./resistdance, Jonah Bokaer, BADco., Mark Coniglio (ISADORA software), Marlon Barrios Solanes, Matthias Sperling, Billy Cowie and others

For an overview of the schedule and more information on the event click here!

Read an interview with BADco. on our work at the 54th Venice Biennale in the

line magazine

issue “the illuminated artist”

or at the Virtual Biennale blog:

http://avirtualbiennale.tumblr.com/

Nikolina Pristaš i Ivana Ivković iz BADco. će održati predavanja i voditi jednodnevnu radionicu temeljenu na principimaalatke Whatever Dance Toolbox u sklopu konferencije:

Digital Futures in Dance

08.-10. rujna 2011., Pavilion Dance, Westover Road, Bournemouth, Velika Britanija

Digital Futures in Dance je mjesto susreta umjetnika, promotora, producenata i istrazivaca, te kreativnno i digitalno orijentiranih skupina, mjesto razmjene o buducnosti plesa i novih tehnologija. U korak sa jacanjem interdisciplinarnih praksi, Digital Futures in Dance istrazuje kako digitalne tehnologije stvaraju nove uvjete za koreografski rad i prezentaciju suvremenog plesa. Konferencija je strukturirana oko tri medjusobno povezane teme kroz prezentacije, radionice, predstave i instalacije.

Sudjeluju: Anthony Lilley, Silke Z./resistdance, Jonah Bokaer, BADco., Mark Coniglio (ISADORA software), Marlon Barrios Solanes, Matthias Sperling, Billy Cowie i dr.

Za više informacija i pregled rasporeda događanja kliknite ovdje!

Procitajte interview sa članovima BADco. o našem radu na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu u novom broju časopisa

line magazine

sa temom “the illuminated artist”

ili na Virtual Biennale blogu:

http://avirtualbiennale.tumblr.com/

BADco. has published

Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader

ed. Petar Milat

with Giuliana Bruno, Peter Szendy, Stephen Zepke

ISBN 978-953-56603-1-6
A digital copy is available here:

BADco. “Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader”

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen - A Reader", 2011

Prigodom sudjelovanja BADco. u sklopu hrvatske izložbe na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu, na poziv kustoskog kolektiva Što, kako i za koga/WHW objavljujemo zbornik na engleskom jeziku:

Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader

ur. Petar Milat

autori: Giuliana Bruno, Peter Szendy, Stephen Zepke

ISBN 978-953-56603-1-6

Digitalno izdanje je u cjelosti dostupno ovdje:

BADco. “Responsibility for Things Seen – A Reader”

You can also watch the videos and follow the debate at Dance-tech.net page.