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“IS THERE LIFE ON STAGE? – Exercises in Terraforming”, 29.05.2013, Zagreb

BADco. invites you to see our newest production IS THERE LIFE ON STAGE? – Exercises in Terraforming at Dance Week Festival!

29.05.2013 22:00 @ Zagreb Dance Center, Ilica 10, Zagreb

BADco.’s new production is an artistic exploration of two connected sets of problems: establishing the minimal conditions for life and the facticity in the theater. Our starting point is the question “What are the consequences of theater’s fictionalization of a reality such as the global environmental crisis?” Therefore our reference horizon spans artistic and media sources ranging from documentary footage of our conquests of outer space, through science-fiction prose and eco-art. The performance has a serial structure whose segments change from occasion to occasion, from venue to venue.

BADco. "Is There Life on Stage?", 2012, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. “Is There Life on Stage?”, 2012, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. vas poziva na izvedbu u sklopu Tjedna suvremenog plesa!

IMA LI ŽIVOTA NA SCENI? – vježbe iz oblikovanja Zemlje

29.05.2013. 22:00 @ Zagrebački plesni centar, Ilica 10

Nova predstava BADco. umjetničko je istraživanje dva povezana skupa problema: stvaranja minimalnih uvjeta za život i činjeničnosti u kazalištu. Naše polazište je u pitanju “Koje su posljedice kazališne fikcionalizacije stvarnosti poput globalne ekološke krize?” Stoga su se obzoru predložaka našli umjetnički i medijski materijali od dokumentarnih snimki osvajanja svemira, preko S.F. proze do ekoumjetnosti. Predstava ima serijalnu strukturu čiji segmenti se mijenjaju iz prigode u prigodu, od izvedbe do izvedbe.

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BADco. “Fleshdance”, 17.-19.05.2013, Glyptotheque, Zagreb

We invite you the see the updated choreography by Nikolina Pristaš!

FleshDance

17.-19.05.2013 20:00 @ Glyptotheque, Medvedgradska 2, Zagreb, Croatia

Tickets: here

Choreography: Nikolina Pristaš
Dancers: Pravdan Devlahović/Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Kreitmeyer and Zrinka Užbinec
Dramaturgy: Ivana Ivković, Goran Sergej Pristaš

FleshDance is a choreography in which the tactile potential of surface does not govern the movement but rather the movement makes visible the appearance of surfaces and their qualities. Flesh is not a boundary between the body and external materiality; it is a haptic surface which determines movement by its ability to see by means of tactility, to desire without watching, to dissolve in the moment of sensation and affliction.

BADco. "Fleshdance", photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. “Fleshdance”, photo: Tomislav Medak

Pozivamo vas na izvedbe obnovljene koreografije Nikoline Pristaš!

FleshDance

17.-19.05.2013. 20:00 @ Gliptoteka HAZU, Medvedgradska 2, Zagreb

Prodaja ulaznica: ovdje

Koreografija: Nikolina Pristaš
Plesači: Pravdan Devlahović/Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Kreitmeyer i Zrinka Užbinec
Dramaturgija: Ivana Ivković, Goran Sergej Pristaš

U koreografiji FleshDance taktilne kvalitete plošnog prostora puti ne diktiraju pokret, naprotiv pokret diktira nastanak površina i njihove kvalitete. Put (flesh) nije granica između tijela i izvanjske materijalnosti, ona je haptička površina koja određuje kretanje svojim svojstvom da opipom vidi, bez pogleda žudi, rastvori se u trenutku osjeta i trpnje.

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BADco. “Responsibility for Things Seen”@ Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana, 08.-24.05.2013

Join us at our opening of the installation!

Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space

08.05.2013 20:00 @ Aksioma | Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The exhibition will be open 08.-24.05.2013

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

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

Pozivamo vas na otvorenje instalacije uz susret s članovima BADco.!

Odgovornost za viđeno: Priče iz negativnog prostora

08.05.2013. 20:00 @ Aksioma | Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

Izložba je otvorena 08.-24.05.2013.

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LABO21 Salon#2 @ Warwick University, UK, 08.-11.05.2013

BADco. is taking part in LABO21 Salon#2

08.-11.05.2013 @ Warwick University, UK

This second Salon of LABO21 will focus on the topic of providing general audiences access to research into artistic methods.

BADco. is co-organizer of LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), Random Dance (London), Troubleyn (Antwerp) and International Choreographic Arts Centre (Amsterdam). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

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BADco. sudjeluje u dogadjanju LABO21 Salon#1

08.-11.05.2013. @ Warwick University, UK

Drugi u nizu Salona LABO21 bavit će se komuniciranjem istraživanja umjetničkih metoda široj javnosti.

BADco. je suorganizator LABO21 – Evropske platforme za interdisciplinarna istraživanja umjetničkih metodologija partnera BADco. (Zagreb), Random Dance (London), Troubleyn (Antwerp) i International Choreographic Arts Centre (Amsterdam). Platforma LABO21 je podržana od programa Kultura Evropske zajednice.

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BADco. “Evolution Won’t be Televised”@ SKOGEN, Gothenburg, 05.-23. April 2013

In April BADco. will present an extensive three-week program Evolution Won’t be Televised at the artist-run platform SKOGEN in Gothenburg, Sweden!

05.-23. April 2013
@ Skogen, Masthuggsterrassen 3, Gothenburg, Sweden

Throughout a three week period we’ll run a public program that will include four of our performances, two workshops, a new performative installation work and a series of lectures and performance lectures a.o. by guests: Tor Lindstrand, Anders Paulin and Anders Mossling, and Johan Normark.

Although the program will offer a comprehensive overview of BADco.’s artistic and educational work, the program block starts from BADco.’s recent concerns: on the one hand, artistic explorations of issues of ecology and environment in the theater that open the block with BADco.’s latest performance Is There Life on Stage? – Exercises in Terraforming. On the other hand, concerns with the old medium of television that will be at the center of BADco.’s work during the stay in SKOGEN and take the form of a performative installation TVolution won’t be televised.

The performative installation work in SKOGEN is a follow-up of the installation work BADco. did in 2011 for the Croatian presentation at the 54th Venice Biennale. This initiated a series of investigations and experimental set-ups that the collective is currently developing alongside of its performances and that are dealing with the recontextualisation and remediation of theater performance into other artistic, scholarly and social practices.

 

PROGRAM:

05. April, 19:00
Performance by BADco. Is There Life on Stage? – Exercises in Terraforming

06. April, 19:00
Performance by BADco. SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or How to Explain Contemporary Dance to an Undead Hare
followed by presentation of BADco.’s work & party

09. April, 18:00-21:00
Digital tools in dance: demonstration of Whatever Dance Toolbox
BADco. will first demonstrate their software toolbox and after visitors can test the system first hand.

14. April, 13:00-17:00
Opening of performative installation TVolution won’t be televised, also open for visitors 15. & 17. April, 12:00-17:00

16. April, 19:00
Lecture performance by Economy/Tor Lindstrand The Walkable City
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Performance by Anders Paulin & Anders Mossling Neither You Nor Me

18. April, 19:00
Talk by Johan Normark Water as Object and Hyperobject in the Ancient Maya Area

18. – 19. April, 9:00-17:00
Workshop by BADco.: Whatever Dance Toolbox

19. April, 19:00
Performance by BADco. Point of Convergence

20. – 21. April, 10:00-14:00
Workshop by BADco.: Post-hoc dramaturgy: Always, Never, Now

23. April, 20:00
Performance by BADco. Trilogy on Labor
followed by: goodbye party

For ticket booking and calendar click here!

BADco. "Is There Life on Stage", 2012, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. “Is There Life on Stage”, 2012, photo: Tomislav Medak

U travnju BADco. će kroz opsežni, trotjedni program biti predstavljen u centru SKOGEN-u u švedskom Göteborgu!

05.-23. travnja 2013.
@ Skogen, Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg, Švedska

Trotjedni javni program Evolution Won’t be Televised uključuje četiri predstave, dvije radionice, novu instalaciju i niz javnih predavanja članova BADco. i vanjskih gostiju poput Tora Lindstranda, Andersa Paulina, Andersa Mosslinga i Johana Normarka.

Program će švedskoj publici ponuditi opsežan uvid u umjetnički i edukativni rad skupine, a tematski se vezuje na dva recentna interesa skupine; problem ekologije i okoliša u kazalištu, uključujući i izvedbu predstave Ima li života na sceni? – Vježbe iz oblikovanja Zemlje, te interes za “stari medij” televizije koji će rezultirati živom instalacijom TVolution won’t be televised, po kojoj je cijeli program dobio ime.

Izvedbena instalacija u SKOGEN-u nastavak je rada kojim se skupina predstavila na 54. Bijenalu u Veneciji 2011.g. koji je potaknuo niz daljnih eksperimenata s izvedbenim postavima kojima je cilj rekontekstualizirati čin kazališne izvedbe i približiti ga time drugim umjetničkim, znanstvenim i društvenim praksama.

 

PROGRAM:

05. travnja, 19:00
Predstava BADco. Ima li života na sceni? – Vježbe iz oblikovanja Zemlje

06. travnja, 19:00
Predstava BADco. POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu
nakon izvedbe prezentacija rada BADco. & party

09. travnja, 18:00-21:00
Digitalni alati u plesu: prezentacija Whatever Dance Toolbox
Nakon uvodne prezentacija posjetitelji mogu sami isprobati alatku.

14. travnja, 13:00-17:00
Otvorenje izvedbene instalacije TVolution won’t be televised, instalacija će također biti otvorena za posjetitelje 15. & 17. travnja, 12:00-17:00

16. travnja, 19:00
lecture performance Economy/Tora Lindstranda The Walkable City
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Predstava Andersa Paulina & Andersa Mosslinga Neither You Nor Me

18. travnja, 19:00
Predavanje Johana Normarka Water as Object and Hyperobject in the Ancient Maya Area

18. – 19. travnja, 9:00-17:00
Radionica BADco. Whatever Dance Toolbox

19. travnja, 19:00
Predstava BADco. Točka sabiranja

20. – 21. travnja, 10:00-14:00
Radionica BADco. Post-hoc dramaturgy: Always, Never, Now

23. travnja, 20:00
Izvedba BADco. Trilogija o radu
nakon izvedbe oproštajni party

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SYMPOSIUM: “Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion”, 21.-24.03.2013, Zagreb

BADco. invites you to the symposium and artistic programme organized in partnership with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA and the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb

Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion

21.-24. March 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia

“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is a proposal to examine relations between the present-day modalities of time and the production of forms of life. The symposium will bring together a number of prominent international scholars and artists to share their thoughts on how to critically address the ways time conditions labor, affect and values, and how this then gets reflected in performance and media. The rise of new precarious forms of work and flexible organization of working time, as well as changes in the content and the nature of work, lead to a corresponding search for balance among the various forms of social time. “Time-scarcity” therefore becomes a relevant topic not only from a social or biological perspective, but also as a dramaturgical and performative problem. Having developed in the 20th century in connection with the principles of Fordism and Taylorism (endless motion, speed of execution, oscillation between order and chaos, the regulated and the coincidental), the development of contemporary performance, especially dance, over the last two decades has reflected the deep changes brought about by post-Fordist modes of labour (cognitive and affective virtuosity, multi-layered temporality, proximity, collaboration processes, openness of work, etc.). In this sense, different choreographic practices should not be understood only as aesthetic practices, but also as wider social processes of distributing bodies in time and space. Simultaneously, the pervasive erosion of differences between film, television, and computers and linked temporal experiences of technologies of work, travel, communication, and vision results in new ideologies of speed and compression, which opens new possibilities to rethink elaborative slowness and strategies of recapitulation in performance.

Program:
21.03.2013
18.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo Bojan Djordjev: What I have Learned about Capitalism – (never ending self) lecture performance
20.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo BADco.: Is There Life On Stage? – performance

22. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama The research group of Maska’s Seminar for Contemporary Performing Arts: Broken Lecture
12.45 @ mama Nik Wakefield:  A Genealogy of Performance Itself: Bergsonian Memory and Documentation
13.15 @ mama Tomislav Medak: Theatre and Totality

17.00 @ mama Sean Cubitt: Visible time
18.00 @ mama Marie-Luise Angerer: Too Much Time

19.30 @ mama Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović (TkH – Walking Theory, Belgrade): Public Sphere by Performance and Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body – book and film presentation

23. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama Karin Harrasser: “There, everybody who stutters, is obliged to limp”. Time-Images in Heiner Göbbels, Alexander Kluge, Samuel Beckett
12.00 @ mama Goran Sergej Pristaš: The Time After (In)Completion
13.00 @ ZPC Marjana Krajač: Manual For Empty Spaces – entering the performance – performance

17.00 @ mama Benjamin Noys: The War of Time: Occupation, Resistance, Communization
18.00 @ mama Stephen Zepke: Art, Communization and the Biopolitical Event

19.00  @ Gallery Nova Franck Leibovici: Formes de vie – book presentation
20.00 @ Theatre &TD Saška Rakef: The Debt of Rakef Saška – performance

24. 03.2013
21.00 @ Cinema Tuškanac Nicolas Rey: Differently, Molussia – film screening

This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and time. More concretely, it was motivated by BADco.’s work on the development of imaging technologies and their application in performative settings, and it revolves around inquiry of images and performances of time in the technologically driven production – both in the capitalist economic production, in the work with technologies on-stage and in the work of dance as an old technology.

The symposium is a part of our participation in the project “TIMeSCAPES – Images and performance of time in late capitalism.” TIMeSCAPES is a long-term artistic research and production platform initiated by five cultural organizations: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), Walking Theory (RS), Science Communications Research (A) and Film-protufilm (HR). It brings together four organizations, whose internationally renowned artistic and cultural practice is rooted in research, publishing and discourse, with one science-oriented organization developing methodologies of artistic research. The double objective is to research and artistically reflect the transversal issue of time that cuts across economy, society and art: structure of working time in different economic contexts, temporal experience in technologies, performative dramaturgies of time, etc.; while at the same time tackling the issue that has acute resonance in cultural and academic contexts across Europe: what should the models and institutions of artistic research be, given the constraints of time, money and mobility that artists face.

The attendant artistic program is organized in collaboration with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, Academy of Drama Arts – University of Zagreb, POGON  – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Culture of Change – Student Center, What, How and for Whom/WHW and Zagreb Dance Center.

Concept, organization and coordination: Goran Sergej Pristaš, Jasna Žmak & Tomislav Medak
Production: Lovro Rumiha

“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is part of TIMeSCAPES, Images and performances of time in late capitalism, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), Maska (Ljubljana), Science Communications Research (Vienna), Walking Theory (Belgrade), Film-protufilm (Zagreb) and Academy Of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
The symposium and artistic programme are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb and Institut français de Zagreb.

BADco: "Is There Life on Stage?", photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco: “Is There Life on Stage?”, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. vas poziva da prisustvujete simpoziju i umjetničkom programu organiziranom u suradnji s Multimedijalnim institutom/MAMA i Akademijom dramske umjetnosti Sveučilista u Zagrebu

Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje

21.-24. ožujka 2013. u Zagrebu

Simpozij “Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje” uzima kao polazište za istraživanje konvergencija između vremenskih struktura, slika vremena i proizvodnje oblika života. Simpozij će okupiti niz stručnjaka i umjetnika u razmjeni mišljenja o kritičkom pristupu načinima na koje vrijeme uvjetuje rad, afekte i vrijednosti te kako se to odražava u izvedbenim i medijskim umjetnostima. Uvođenje novih oblika rada i organizacije radnog vremena vodi u potragu za ravnotežom među različitim formama društvenog vremena. “Nedostatak vremena” time postaje ne samo važna tema iz društvene i biološke perspektive, nego i dramaturški i izvedbeni problem. U dvadesetom stoljeću izvedba se razvijala u korespondenciji s principima fordizma – neprestano kretanje, brzina, oscilacija između reda i kaosa, reguliranog i slučajnog. Suvremena izvedba, prije svega ples, u posljednje dvije dekade odražava duboke promjene postfordističkih načina proizvodnje (kognitivna i afektivna virtuoznost, višeslojna temporalnost, neposrednost, suradnički procesi, otvorenost djela itd.) Shodno tome, različiti koreografski procesi ne mogu se samo shvaćati kao umjetničke prakse, nego i kao širi društveni procesi raspoređivanja tijela u vremenu i prostoru. Istovremeno općeprisutno dokidanje razlika između filma, televizije i kompjutora te urušavanje različitosti među njima odgovarajućim vremenskim iskustvima kroz tehnologije rada, putovanja, komunikacije i gledanja rezultiraju novim ideologijama brzine i sažimanja koje otvaraju mogućnosti promišljanja izlagačke sporosti i strategije rekapitulacije u izvedbi.

Program (sva dogadjanja su na engleskom jeziku):
21.03.2013
18.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo Bojan Đorđev: What I have Learned about Capitalism – (beskrajno samo) izvedbeno predavanje
20.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo BADco.: Ima li života na sceni?predstava

22. 03.2013
11.00 @ Mama Istraživačka grupa Maskinog Seminara za suvremenu izvedbenu umjetnost: Broken Lecture
12.45 @ Mama Nik Wakefield:  A Genealogy of Performance Itself: Bergsonian Memory and Documentation
13.15 @ Mama Tomislav Medak: Theatre and Totality

17.00 @ Mama Sean Cubitt: Visible time – keynote
18.00 @ Mama Marie-Luise Angerer: Too Much Time – keynote

19.30 @ Mama Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda i Ana Vujanović (TkH – Teorija koja hoda, Beograd): Public Sphere by Performance and Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body – predstavljanje knjige i filma

23. 03.2013
11.00 @ Mama Karin Harrasser: “There, everybody who stutters, is obliged to limp”. Time-Images in Heiner Göbbels, Alexander Kluge, Samuel Beckett
11.30 @ Mama Goran Sergej Pristaš: The Time After (In)Completion
13.00 @ ZPC Marjana Krajač: Manual For Empty Spaces – entering the performance – predstava

17.00 @ Mama Benjamin Noys: The War of Time: Occupation, Resistance, Communization -keynote
18.00 @ Mama Stephen Zepke: Art, Communization and the Biopolitical Event – keynote

19.00 @ Galerija Nova Franck Leibovici: Formes de vie – predstavljanje knjige
20.00 @ Teatar &TD Saška Rakef: The Debt of Rakef Saška – predstava

24. 03.2013
21.00 @ Kino Tuškanac Nicolas Rey: Differently, Molussia – projekcija filma

Simpozij i njegova tema nastavak su umjetničkog interesa BADco. za razmatranjem poveznica izvedbe i vremena. Naše istraživanje, vezano je za kritičko promišljanje različitih struktura vremena kako u kontekstu kapitalističke ekonomske proizvodnje, u radu s tehnologijama na sceni, tako i u radu plesa kao stare tehnologije.

Simpozij je dio  međunarodnog projekta “TIMeSCAPES – Slike i izvedbe vremena u kasnom kapitalizmu.” TIMeSCAPES je višegodišnje umjetničko istraživanje i produkcijska platforma  šestoro organizacija: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), TkH – Teorija koja hoda (RS), Science Communications Research (A) i Film-protufilm (HR). Projekt povezuje četiri organizacije čija je međunarodno priznata umjetnička i kulturna praksa ukorijenjena u istraživanju, izdavaštvu i teoriji s jednom znanstveno orijentiranom organizacijom koja razvija metodologije umjetničkog istraživanja. Projekt ima cilj istraživati i umjetnički se baviti temom vremena koja se proteže kroz ekonomiju, društvo i umjetnost: strukturama radnog vremena u različitim ekonomskim kontekstima; iskustvom vremena u tehnologijama; izvedbenim dramaturgijama vremena itd. Istovremeno projekt se metodološki bavi problemom od akutnog značaja za kulturne i akademske kontekste diljem Europe: kakvi bi trebali biti modeli i institucije umjetničkog istraživanja s obzirom na ograničenja vremena, novca i mobilnosti s kojima se umjetnici susreću.

Umjetnički program BADco. organizira u suradnji s Multimedijalnim institutom/MAMA, Akademijom dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, POGON – Zagrebačkim centrom za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade, Kulturom promjene – Studentski centar, Što, kako i za koga/WHW, i Zagrebačkim plesnim centrom.

Koncept, organizacija i koordinacija: Goran Sergej Pristaš, Jasna Žmak i Tomislav Medak
Produkcija: Lovro Rumiha

“Strgane izvedbe: Vrijeme i (ne)ispunjenje” dio je projekta “TIMeSCAPES – Slike i izvedbe vremena u kasnom kapitalizmu.” TIMeSCAPES je višegodišnje umjetničko istraživanje i produkcijska platforma šestoro organizacija: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), TkH – Teorija koja hoda (RS), Science Communications Research (A) i Film-protufilm (HR). Platforma TIMeSCAPES je podržana od programa Kultura Evropske unije.
Simpozij i umjetnički program podržavaju Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske, Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport Grada Zagreba i Francuski institut.

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“IS THERE LIFE ON STAGE? – Exercises in Terraforming”, 20.-21.03.2013, Zagreb

BADco. invites you to see:

in Croatian: 20.03.2013 20:00 @ POGON Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb, Croatia – TICKETS

in English: 21.03.2013 20:00 @ POGON Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb, Croatia – TICKETS

BADco.’s new production is an artistic exploration of two connected sets of problems: establishing the minimal conditions for life and the facticity in the theater. Our starting point is the question “What are the consequences of theater’s fictionalization of a reality such as the global environmental crisis?” Therefore our reference horizon spans artistic and media sources ranging from documentary footage of our conquests of outer space, through science-fiction prose and eco-art.

The performance-series starts out from the idea of terraforming, a hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of planet, moon or other body to be similar to those of Earth in order to make it habitable by terrestrial organisms. Conceived as serial, made up of individual episodes, the production’s primary interest is to approach and exhaust the topic of establishing new conditions for life and work on stage, networks of relations, ecosystems, forms of life, communities etc. On the one hand we wish to reflect on a heightened sense of urgency to relate the global environmental crisis, on the other hand our aim is to reflect on the status of the real in theater. While theater’s social and political argumentation increasingly exhibits a passion for reality, for the documentary, for the “real people” on stage, theater always inevitably fictionalizes relations between people and things, facts and illusions. And yet, theater always is a collective act of sorts, always a temporary community with its own set of sociopoetic consequences.

The performance has a serial structure whose segments will be changing from occasion to occasion, from venue to venue. The production has  been presented twice as a work-in-progress, while the Rijeka performance in October 2012 opened a cycle of public showings in theaters. The initial project propositions were developed through a number of workshops and collaborations with artists and experts outside of the collective. The performance will remain after its premiere open through continuous workshops with the audience and yet other creators, resulting in yet other segments that will be added to the serial and permutable structure of the performance. It is adaptable to performance and gallery venues, but also other open-air of enclosed public spaces.

Inspired by works and thoughts of Timothy Morton, John W. Campbell, Yona Friedman, Vlado Martek, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Long Distance Hotel and others.

Authors: Pravdan Devlahović (performance), Ivana Ivković (dramaturgy), Ana Kreitmeyer (performance), Tomislav Medak (dramaturgy), Goran Sergej Pristaš (directing), Nikolina Pristaš (performance and choreography), Zrinka Užbinec (performance).

Collaborators: Daniel Turing (software), Silvio Vujičić (costume design), Alan Vukelić (light design), Jasmin Dasović (sound design).

Company manager: Lovro Rumiha

Coproducers: BADco. and Domino

Supported by: Zagreb City Council for Education, Culture and Sport; Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia
The production was prepared at the Culture Center Novi Zagreb.

BADco. “Is There Life on Stage?”, 2012, photo: Tomislav Medak

BADco. vas poziva na izvedbe:

IMA LI ŽIVOTA NA SCENI? – vježbe iz oblikovanja Zemlje

na hrvatskom: 20.03.2013. 20:00 @ POGON Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb – KARTE

na engleskom: 21.03.2013. 20:00 @ POGON Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb – KARTE

Nova predstava BADco. umjetničko je istraživanje dva povezana skupa problema: stvaranja minimalnih uvjeta za život i činjeničnosti u kazalištu. Naše polazište je u pitanju “Koje su posljedice kazališne fikcionalizacije stvarnosti poput globalne ekološke krize?” Stoga su se obzoru predložaka našli umjetnički i medijski materijali od dokumentarnih snimki osvajanja svemira, preko S.F. proze do ekoumjetnosti.

Predstava-serija svoj je začetak našla u ideji terraforminga, hipotetskog procesa ciljanog preoblikovanja atmosfere, temperature, površinske topografije ili ekologije nekog planeta ili svemirskog tijela kako bi ga se učinilo sličnim Zemlji te naseljivim zemaljskim organizmima. U namjeri da se realizira kao serijalna, epizodna struktura, predstava će iz nekoliko različitih perspektiva prići ideji scenskog iskušavanja uspostavljanja novih životnih (ali i radnih) uvjeta, međuljudskih odnosa, ekosustava, oblika života, zajednica itd. S jedne strane, cilj nam je reflektirati povišeni stupanj osjetljivosti za budućnost planeta Zemlje, a s druge, status stvarnosti u kazalištu. Dok se njegova socijalna i politička argumentacija sve više artikulira strašću za stvarnim, za dokumentarizmom i “stvarnim ljudima” na sceni, kazalište neizbježno fikcionalizira odnose među ljudima i stvarima, činjenicama i iluzijama. No paralelno tome kazalište jest uvijek svojevrsni zajednički čin, uvijek neka privremena zajednica koja ima svoje sociopoetičke posljedice.

Predstava ima serijalnu strukturu čiji segmenti će se mijenjati iz prigode u prigodu, od izvedbe do izvedbe. Predstava je u dva navrata prezentirana u radnim uvjetima, a riječka premijera u listopadu 2012. je otvorila ciklus javnih izvedbi u teatru.  Inicijalni projektni prijedlozi razvijeni su kroz niz radionica i suradnji s umjetnicima i stručnjacima izvan kolektiva. Predstava će se nadalje razvijati kroz niz radionica s publikom i drugim stvaraocima, a rezultirajući, novoproizvedeni segmenti će se uključivati u serijalnu i izmjenjivu strukturu predstave. Predstava je namijenjena za izvođenje u kazalištima, galerijama, ali i drugim otvorenim i zatvorenim javnim prostorima.

Inspirirano radovima i mišlju Timothyja Mortona, Johna W. Campbella, Yone Friedmana, Vlade Marteka, Heraklita iz Efeza, Long Distance Hotel i drugih.

Ključne riječi: terraforming, ekomimeza, imitiranje, atmosferska ugođenost, biosfera, serija, gravitacijski satovi, instrumentalna koreografija

Autori: Pravdan Devlahović (izvedba), Ivana Ivković (dramaturgija), Ana Kreitmeyer (izvedba), Tomislav Medak (dramaturgija), Goran Sergej Pristaš (režija), Nikolina Pristaš (izvedba i koreografija), Zrinka Užbinec (izvedba).

Suradnici: Daniel Turing (software), Silvio Vujičić (kostimi), Alan Vukelić (oblikovanje svjetla), Jasmin Dasović (oblikovanje zvuka).

Producent: Lovro Rumiha

Koprodukcija: BADco. i Domino

Podržali: Ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport Grada Zagreba, Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske
Predstava je pripremana u Centru za kulturu Novi Zagreb.

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BADco. “Point of Convergence” @ Les Repérages, Roubaix, France, 15.03.2013

See the choreography Point of Convergence by Zrinka Užbinec and Ana Kreitmeyer in Roubaix, France at the festival Les Repérages!

15.03.2013 18:00 @ Le Gymnase I, 5 rue du Général Chanzy, Roubaix, France

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Ako ste u Francuskoj pogledajte koreografiju Točka sabiranja Zrinke Užbinec i Ane Kreitmeyer na festivalu Les Repérages!

BADco. “Point of Convergence”, Photo: Tomislav Medak

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BADco. Whatever Dance Toolbox @ SPAZIO Residency, Zagreb, 04.-21.02.2013

BADco. is taking part in

SPAZIO – A European network for dance creation

by leading a creative lab focusing on using Whatever Dance Toolbox.

04.-21.02.2013 @ Zagreb Dance Centre, Zagreb, Croatia

SPAZIO is a European formation and creation program for young dance makers, focused on the interdisciplinary character of the dance discipline. It offers young makers a one year cycle of 5 residencies in all partner countries.

During the residencies the SPAZIO participants follow workshops, lectures, discussions, are coached in creative processes and are challenged to create new work based on these experiences. At the same time the project opens up this network of artists and art works to the local communities of the partners.

The residency in Zagreb will focus on the topic of “Dance and Interaction with New Technologies” and will also include a creative lab led by Andrea Bozic (HR/NL) and Julia Willms (DE).

SPAZIO is co-organized by: ICKAmsterdam – Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CSC DanceHouse – Bassano del Grappa, Italy; Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance – Zagreb, Croatia; Art Stations Foundation – Poznan, Poland.

Whatever Dance Toolbox in Action

Whatever Dance Toolbox in Action

BADco. sudjeluje u programu

SPAZIO – evropskoj mreži plesnog stvaralaštva

vođenjem kreativnog laboratorija uz korištenje alatke Whatever Dance Toolbox.

04.-21.02.2013. @ Zagrebački plesni centar, Zagreb

SPAZIO, evropska mreža za plesno stvaralaštvo, namijenjena je mladim plesnim umjetnicima, s naglaskom na odnos između plesa i drugih umjetničkih disciplina kako bi se ispitivala, razmatrala i osnažila plesna umjetnost. Jednogodišnji program uključuje ciklus od 5 rezidencija u zemljama partnera.

Program obuhvaća radionice, predavanja, diskusije, a sudionici sudjeluju u kreativnim procesima i stvaraju novi rad na temelju stečenih iskustava. Istovremeno, projekt stvara novu mrežu umjetnika i umjetničkih djela za lokalnu zajednicu partnerskih gradova.

Rezidencija u Zagrebu ima fokus na “Ples i interakciju s novim tehnologijama” te također uključuje kreativan laboratorij koji vode Andrea Bozic (HR/NL) i Julia Willms (DE).

SPAZIO zajedno organiziraju: ICKAmsterdam – Amsterdam, Nizozemska; CSC DanceHouse – Bassano del Grappa, Italija; Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples – Zagreb, Hrvatska; Art Stations Foundation – Poznan, Poljska.

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LABO21 newsletter #1

BADco. is a partner in LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies.

Our platform partners are: Random Dance (London), Troubleyn (Antwerp) and International Choreographic Arts Centre (Amsterdam).

Under the heading of LABO21, the different partners carry out research on artistic methodologies and how these ‘methods’ can be understood and captured. Despite the variety of the propositions, the partners share the same objectives. They want to enhance and generate new understandings in performing arts by bringing knowledge of performance and dance into conjunction with other fields such as cognitive sciences, biology and technology research, social science and philosophy.

Together with the research, LABO21 also organizes various public events, such as salons, workshops, colloquia, etc.
If you would like to stay informed, please subscribe to the newsletter here!

Upcoming partner events include:
25.-29.03.2013 – Double Skin/Double Mind Workshop at Laboratorium Antwerp, BE
08.-11.05.2013 – Salon#2 at Warwick University, UK

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BADco. je partner u platformi LABO21 – Evropskoj platformi za interdisciplinarna istraživanja umjetničkih metodologija.

Naši partneri su: Random Dance (London), Troubleyn (Antverpen) i International Choreographic Arts Centre (Amsterdam).

U sklopu platforme LABO21 partneri provode istraživanja umjetničkih metodologija i načina na koje se te “metode” mogu proučavati i dokumentirati. Iako projektu pristupaju s drugačijih polazišta partneri dijele ciljeve. Naglasak je na susretu izvedbenih umjetnosti, posebice plesa, sa znanstvenim disciplinama kao sto su kognitivna znanost, biologija i nove tehnologije, te društvene znanosti i filozofija.

Uz istraživački rad LABO21 organizira različita javna događanja kao što su saloni, radionice, seminari i sl.

Ukoliko želite biti informirani pretplatite se na newsletter ovdje!

Skora partnerska događanja uključuju:
25.-29.03.2013. – Double Skin/Double Mind radionica, Laboratorium, Antverpen, Belgija
08.-11.05.2013. – Salon#2, Warwick University, Velika Britanija

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