Curatorial Practice in Context 2022

Part 3 -  “ Politics and Ethics of Production “   Agenda   Online: 07. - 11. November 07.11.  Monday   10.00 – 11.30 →  Jenny Richards, independent curator, and Ph.D. candidate Konstfack, Sweden “Reproducing differently - cultivating caring practices within the contradictions of the curatorial”  11.45 – 13.00 →   wrap up/group work with Biljana Tanurovska Kj and Tove Salmgren 08.11. Tuesday 10.00  – 11.00 →  Ksenija Djurovic, cultural worker and producer based in Belgrade A conversation on navigating the troubled waters of producing and presenting contemporary performing arts from an institutional perspective (Bitef festival) with an independent scene background  11.15  – 12.30 →  Smaller groups talk and wrap up of this day with Biljana Tanurovska Kj and Tove Salmgren 09.11. Wednesday 13.00  – 15.00 →  Anna Efraimsson, curator and theatre director MDT, Stockholm            ...

Part 2 -  “ Composting “  Agenda  Online: 03. - 07. October  The Compost is a place for ‘composting’ – a process that aims to fertilize the specific ground where curatorial methods and practices in the performing arts take place.  ‘Composting’ is about sharing and exchanging materials and resources with a wide range of experiences and knowledge produced inside and outside the usual academic context. To engage in composting means to share interests, knowledge, and experiences on curating, and to let ’the compost’ work as a co-existing and co-creative space for a multitude of perspectives, simultaneously negotiating what this process will do, or become. curatingincontext.com/resources/composting/ Silke Balke, Tove Salmgren, Biljana Tanurovska – Kj and Una Bauer are offering and inviting in exploring, exchanging, and thinking diverse approaches of common work with diverse materials (texts, videos, objects, ideas, etc.) that can/will be used in the development of th...

Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) Open Call for Applications Deadline:  January 20, 2023 Mentors of the programme:  Ana Vujanović ,  Marijana Cvetković  and  Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski More about the programme at  criticalpractice-madeinyu.dancestation.org/about This edition of the programme is part of the  apap – Feminist Futures  project that addresses inequality in the contemporary performing arts field, using the body of thought consolidated by the term  Intersectional Feminism  to find concrete structural answers and raise public awareness. Through its Feminist Futures Festivals, Feminist school and other programmes it will offer the participants of the Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) a space for learning, producing and collaborating. apapnet.eu Emerging authors (writers, critics, researchers, theoreticians) and those interested in further professional development in the field of critical practice in contemporary pe...

(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning: precarious story-sharing Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Maša Radi Buh November 3, 2022    Conference of Academies at PAF-Performing Arts Forum  (an encounter on politics and the relevant urgencies within the academic and professional performing arts field initiated by Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo) 28th September  –  2nd October 2022, St Erme, France   (Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning:    precarious story-sharing Anka Herbut ,  Elena Novakovits  and  Masa Radi Buh (invited to PAF and mentored by Ana Vujanović in the frame of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program) Cover image from the serie  Espaces Muséaux  by Muriel Bordier Did you ever think that it’s not your fault you can’t count on your account?   Don’t worry, the curator is probably more scared of you than you are of them.           ...

Curating in Context Summer School Struga, Northern Macedonia, August 29 – September 5, 2022   Con-texts: the curatorial, the lake, the writing bodies and bodies of water  Few notes from Struga Summer School / a collective diary of sharing thoughts Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Jette Büchsenschütz, Kasia Wolińska,   Maeve Johnson, Maša Radi Buh Collage by Kasia Wolińska Where is your body now? How does it feel?  Cause my body, for instance, is trying to recall and tune in to the feeling it experienced when the above questions were introduced at the very beginning of the Summer School in Struga. We were sitting on a sunny terrace in a circle, facing each other, trying to return to our bodies in order to feel what we’re coming with, what we could bring into the collective process that was just about to begin, what we were ready (or not) to share. My body came to Struga quite overwhelmed by holidays which actually were not so holidayish, but instead they were rich ...

/македонски подолу/ Summer School “Curating in context”/ Public lecture  “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” by Bojana Kunst  Wednesday, 31.08.2022 at 19:00pm @ Summer stage, Cultural Centre, Struga In the frame of the summer school “Curating in context” that will happen in Struga, the public lecture “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” will take place on the 31st of August, at 7pm, at the “Summer stage” in the Cultural Centre in Struga. Bojana Kunst is a philosopher, dramaturg, and performance theoretician. She works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, where she is leading an international master's program in Choreography and Performance. She worked as a researcher at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Antwerp (till 2009), and later as a guest professor at the University of Hamburg (2009 – 2012). She lectured and organized seminars, workshops, and laboratories in di...