The presentation of the archive in Zagreb will
be accompanied by discursive programmes that foreground and incite local
research on the history of performance. In the last few years, this has
become an increasingly discussed topic, accompanied by noticeable attention
in curatorial, artistic and publishing projects on both the history of
performance and curating performance.
To what extent are these recent critical, curatorial and artists’ projects
shaped by feminist or queer theories? How can these theories transform our
understanding of writing history, or thinking about archives? These are some
of the questions that the Zagreb presentation of the re.act.feminism archive
will address.
Discussions and the workshops will serve as a base for introducing new
additions to the re.act.feminism archive, therefore encouraging a
collaborative process of curating and questioning the archive.
Photo above: “Simone Forti "Solo No. 1”, Image copyright the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank
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The participating artists as presented at the Galerija Miroslav Kraljević are:
Ebtisam Abdulaziz AE, Marina Abramović RS, Helena Almeida PT, Eleanor Antin USA, Oreet Ashery IL/UK,
Antonia Baehr DE, Maja Bajević BA/FR/DE, Anne Bean UK, Anat Ben-David IL/UK, Renate Bertlmann AT,
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz DE, Nisrine Boukhari SY, Marijs Boulogne BE, Tania Bruguera CU/USA,
Maris Bustamante MX, Cabello/Carceller ES, Graciela Carnevale AR, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha KR/USA, Helen
Chadwick UK, Chicks on Speed DE, Lygia Clark BR, Colette USA, Nieves Correa ES, Laura Cottingham USA,
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen DK, Disband USA, Ines Doujak AT, Orshi Drozdik HU, Yingmei Duan CN/DE,
Diamela Eltit CL, VALIE EXPORT AT, Factory of Found Clothes RU, Esther Ferrer ES, Rose Finn-Kelcey UK,
Simone Forti IT/USA, (e.) Twin Gabriel DE, Regina José Galindo GT, Rimma Gerlovina &
Valeriy Gerlovin RU, Patrycja German PL, Ghazel IR/FR, Kate Gilmore USA, Mona Hatoum LB/UK/DE,
María Teresa Hincapié CO, Nan Hoover USA/DE, Sanja Iveković HR, Elżbieta Jabłońska PL,
Françoise Janicot FR, Joan Jonas USA, Anne Jud CH/DE/USA, Kirsten Justesen DK, Kanonklubben/Damebilleder DK,
Line Skywalker Karlström SE, Tina Keane UK, Amal Kenawy EG, Verica Kovacevska MK, Elena Kovylina RU,
Katarzyna Kozyra PL, Christina Kubisch DE, Verena Kyselka DE, Nicola L FR/USA, Latifa Laâbissi FR,
Leslie Labowitz USA, Suzanne Lacy USA, Katalin Ladik SR/HU, Sigalit Landau IL, Klara Lidén SE, Kalup
Linzy USA, Natalia LL PL, Léa Lublin AR, Manon CH, Jumana Manna USA, María Evelia Marmolejo CO,
Muda Mathis CH, Dóra Maurer HU, Mónica Mayer MX, Ana Mendieta CU/USA, Marta Minujín AR, Fina Miralles ES,
Linda Montano USA, Charlotte Moorman USA, Teresa Murak PL, Sands Murray-Wassink NL,
Rabbya Naseer & Hurmat Ul Ain PK, Lorraine O'Grady USA, Hannah O’Shea UK, Itziar Okariz ES,
Yoko Ono JP/USA, ORLAN FR, Tanja Ostojić RS/DE, Gina Pane IT/FR, Letícia Parente BR, Ewa Partum PL/ DE,
Jillian Peña USA, Performance Saga (Andrea Saemann CH & Katrin Grögel DE), Howardena Pindell USA,
Polvo de Gallina Negra MX, Yvonne Rainer USA, Egle Rakauskaite LT, Jytte Rex DK, Ulrike Rosenbach DE,
Martha Rosler USA, Boryana Rossa BU, María Ruido ES, Estíbaliz Sábada ES, Andrea Saemann CH,
Zorka Ságlová CZ, Christine Schlegel DE, Cornelia Schleime DE, Carolee Schneemann USA,
Miriam Sharon IL/ FR, Bonnie Ora Sherk USA, Barbara T. Smith USA, Cornelia Sollfrank DE,
Spiderwoman Theater USA, Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth M. Stevens USA, Sterle HR, Gabriele Stötzer DE,
Melati Suryodarmo ID/DE, Jinoos Taghizadeh IR, Milica Tomić RS, Mierle Laderman Ukeles USA,
Valie Export Society EE, Cecilia Vicuña CL, The Waitresses USA, Faith Wilding USA, Hannah Wilke USA,
Martha Wilson USA, Julita Wójcik PL, Nil Yalter EG/FR
Photo: Exhibition view, by 8485
Design and architecture archive modules: Matten Vogel D.O.I.
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Friday, 4 May 2012, 5.00-8.00 pm
Zoo-scene and eat art - the performing, exhibitionary and acting animal, student workshop with Suzana Marjanić
Following the positioning of the animal as object + subject + symbol in neo/avantgarde and postavangarde art (M. Šuvaković, 1999), we will interpret the use of animals as subjects (e.g. Montažstroj:
Timbuktu, 2008), symbols (e.g. the donkeys in the Dadaist play
They too are coming by the high-school group Travellers performed in 1922 (the first “happeninng” in the local context), as well as the killing of animals (animals as object) in the context of Croatian performance (e.g. Sven Stilinović,
The Geometry of Bloodthirstiness, 2000, whose variation, performed in Dubrovnik in 2000 involved slaughtering a lamb during the solar eclipse).
Friday, 11 May 2012, 5.00-8.00 pm
Performative music: from bruitism to local examples of lesionism - a collage, student workshop with Suzana Marjanić
The essayistic consideration of music performance, a certain essayistic transformation of sound into word, could begin by sadly recalling a tragic example of a music performance made last year in Leipzig, when Finn Martin demonstrated for the last time his synchronous playing of saxophone and descending a building facade. It was his last performance of Vertigo, as he dubbed his breakneck performing actions he had made since 1993. In this last one, he fell from the height of 20 meters and died. The workshop presentation will follow a concise and fragmented historical line of music performance starting from bruitism, and mainly focusing on the link between noise music and the poetics of performance of resistance of punk body art. Such performance ethics and aesthetics is in the local context best demonstrated by Satan Panonski, the legendary Ivica Čuljak, Ajatolah Kečer II.
Along with the introductory lectures and discussions proposed by this workshop, group analysis of the video recordings of selected performances, actions, happenings and body art, we will attempt to formulate a theoretical reader (“a performing textbook”) focused on the above topics (zooscene as ethical disturbance + music performance), taking as a basis of analysis the archive of re.act.feminism – a performing archive.
As preparation for the first encounter, “Zoo-scene and eat art — the performing, exhibitionary and acting animal”, it is recommended that participants choose a performance (preferably, but not necessarily, of an artist represented in the re.act.feminism archive) which uses animals as subject, object or symbol, and which the participant will then shortly present and interepret at the workshop. As an example, we can take a look at Valie Export’s Asemie or the Inability of Expressing Oneself through Facial Expressions (1973.) VALIE EXPORT.
The introductory lecture of the other encounter, “Performative music: from bruitism to local examples of lesionism — a collage”, will be followed — depending on the group agreement or individual interests — by developing ideas for a group or individual sound and/or music performance. Noise...
Suzana Marjanić (Sisak, 1969) works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb where she involves in research on mythical themes in oral literature, animal studies and anthropology of theatre/ performance. She has published on the above topics in several academic journals (
Narodna umjetnost, Studia mythologica Slavica, Studia ethnologica Croatica, Kodovi slovenskih kultura, etc.) i specialized journals (
Treća: journal of the Center for Women’s Studies, Kazalište, etc.), the
Zarez biweekly magazine and numerous other academic publications. Her book
Glasovi Davnih dana: transgresije svjetova u Krležinim zapisima 1914–1921/22 (Voices of "Bygone Days": transgressions of the worlds in Krleža's entries 1914-1921/1922) was published in 2005 by Naklada MD. Together with Antonija Zaradija Kiš she edited the publications
Kulturni bestijarij (Cultural Bestiary) (Zagreb, 2007),
Književna životinja (Literary Animal) (Zagreb, 2011, the print is still on hold due to the state of recession and depression); with Marijana Hameršak she edited
Folkloristička čitanka (Folklore Studies Reader) (Zagreb, 2010), and together with Ines Prica
Mitski zbornik (Mythical Miscellany) (Zagreb, 2010).
The workshops are open to everyone, on the condition that they confirm their interest and participation by email to
info@g-mk.hr, to which any further questions should also be addressed.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Historicizing, re-enacting, and archiving — performance research in the local context. Discussion with Sandra Sterle and Kontejner, Bettina Knaup, Sanja Iveković (tbc) and Jelena Petrović and others