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.

BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen" @ Biennale, 2011, photo: Ivan Kuharić

As part of the Croatian exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale BADco. is presenting a site-specific installation and intervention titled Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space, the first phase of a multi-segment project we will conclude with a premiere at the Zagreb Youth Theater in early 2012. The central concern of the project is the issue of mediated responsibility, relating to events we witness in images and different modes of spectating. The Venice installation, conceived as theater by other means, will construct the field of friction between the power of images to engage our collective imagination, to open or shut the horizon of the future, and different modes of spectating – opening a potential space of critical and transformative work of spectating.

We are inspired by the fact that our work is presented alongside the work of Tomislav Gotovac, an artist with whom we share an intuition that there is a continuity between seeing and creating, and an interest for the internal material organization of the artistic reality – what the artist had called “the steel mash”.

For a detailed description of Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space and full credits see: BADco_Croatia_2011

The exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia is realized in collaboration with Croatian film clubs’ association and Zagreb Youth Theater.

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

Na poziv kustoskog kolektiva Što, kako i za koga/WHW hrvatsku na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu, koje se održava od 4. lipnja do 27. studenoga 2011., predstavlja rad konceptualnog umjetnika Antonia G. Lauera (a.k.a. Toma Gotovca) i izvedbene skupine BADco.

BADco. na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu

4. lipnja do 27. studenoga 2011. u Arsenalima

U sklopu hrvatskog sudjelovanja na Venecijanskom bijenalu BADco. postavlja site-specific instalaciju i intervenciju Odgovornost za viđeno: Priče iz negativnog prostora. Riječ je o prvom segmentu višedjelnog umjetničkog i istraživačkog rada koji planiramo zaključiti premijerom predstave u Zagrebačkom kazalištu mladih početkom 2012. godine. Središnja preokupacija rada je pitanje posredovane odgovornosti, odnosa prema događajima kojima svjedočimo u slikama i različitim načinima gledanja. Venecijanski će postav, kao svojevrstan teatar drugim sredstvima, graditi polje tenzije, sraza izmedju moći slika da vežu nasu kolektivnu imaginaciju, da otvaraju i zatvaraju horizont budućnosti, i različitih dispozicija gledanja otvarajući jedan mogući prostor za kritički i transformativni rad gledanja.

Nalazimo veliki poticaj u činjenici da je naš rad biti predstavljen uz rad Tomislava Gotovca, umjetnika s kojim djelimo intuiciju da postoji kontiunitet između čina gledanja i čina stvaranja i interes za unutarnju, materijalnu organizaciju umjetničke zbilje – onoga što je umjetnik nazivao “čeličnom mrežom”.

Za detaljni opis rada Odgovornost za viđeno: Priče iz negativnog prostora i popis suradnika: BADco_Croatia_2011

Izložba na poziv Ministarstva kulture Republike Hrvatske je realizirana u suradnji s Hrvatskim filmskim savezom i Zagrebačkim kazalištem mladih.