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Friday 11 AUGUST

20:00–22:00

Contributions

PD Dr. habil. Krassimira Kruschkova Jay Pather Cape Town Vienna (BG/AT/D) Choreographer, curator and academic Theatre, dance and performance Jay Pather is director of the Institute for theorist, curator Creative Arts (ICA) at the University of Cape She teaches at the University of Applied Town. Here Pather has created structures for Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and is interdisciplinary collaboration. His research visiting professor at the FU Berlin. From 2003 and artistic work deploys site-specific, inter- to 2017 Krassimira was head of the theory disciplinary and intercultural strategies to and media centre at Tanzquartier Wien. She frame postcolonial imaginaries and matters of was visiting professor also at the University social justice. He curates the Infecting the City of Vienna, where she did her doctorate and Public Art Festival; the ICA Live Art Festival, the habilitation. Afrovibes Festival (The Netherlands) and for Selected publications: Ob?scene. Zur the Spielart Festival (Munich). Recent publica- Präsenz der Absenz im zeitgenössischen tions appear in Rogue Urbanism; Performing Theater, Tanz und Film, Vienna, 2005; It Cities and Theater. He was recently appointed takes place when it doesn’t. On dance juror for the International Award for Public and performance since 1989 (ed. with Art, Fellow at the University of London and M. Hochmuth/G. Schöllhammer), Frankfurt a. Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French M., 2006; Uncalled. Dance and performance Ministry of Culture. of the future (ed. with S. Gareis), Berlin, 2009; Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag (ed. with A. Böhler/S. Valerie), Bielefeld, 2014. Friday 3

Kick Off Dialogues

Claudia Bosse Vienna/Berlin Eisa Jocson Manila Artist Choreographer, dancer Claudia Bosse is a choreographer, artist and Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer the artistic director of theatercombinat, a and dancer from the Philippines. Trained as transdisziplinary art production company. a visual artist, with a background in ballet, After studying theatre directing at the she won her first pole-dancing competition Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Manila in 2010. Her 3 solo works; Death of Berlin, she develops on an international level the Pole Dancer (2011), Macho Dancer (2013, installations and site spedific theatre works 8:tension) and Host (2015) toured extensi- for museums, architectures, theatres and vely in major festivals worldwide, including urban spaces. Claudia creates experimental ImPulsTanz Vienna (2013), Noorderzon, theatre between (spatial) choreography, Groningen (2013 & 2015), Tanz im August, (choral) theatre and urban intervention. She Berlin (2013 & 2015), Zürcher Theater Spektakel is teaching, lecturing and publishing. She also (2012 & 2013 & 2015), Theater der Welt (2014), initiates or participates in research projects Asia Triennial of Performing Arts, Melbourne and is continuously collaborating with artists (2017). The 3 solos have been presented as a and theorists of different genres. trilogy in LIVEWORKS festival in Sydney (2016) and Counterpulse festival & SF MOMA in San claudiabosse.blogspot.com Francisco (2016). Macho Dancer won the www.theatercombinat.com Zürcher Kantonalbank Acknowledgement Prize 2013. She then had her first solo exhibition; Philippine Macho Academy (2014) in Vargas Igor Dobricic Berlin/Amsterdam Museum, University of the Philippines. From Dramaturge pole to macho dancing to hostess work, Eisa Igor Dobricic is a freelance dramaturge living investigates the labour and representations of between Berlin and Amsterdam and working the dancing body in the service industry, and internationally. He is regularly engaging exposes identity and gender formation, seduc- with students at the Amsterdam School for tion politics, and Filipino social mobility. New Dance (SNDO) and for the last four Under the HAPPYLAND (2017) series, her years he is working as a mentor in a context new creation Princess, a duet with Filipino of the K3 choreographic residency program performance artist Russ Ligtas and Your in Hamburg. Eight years ago, as a research Highness a collaboration with 5 dancers from fellow with the Amsterdam School of the Ballet Philippines is a continuation of her Arts, he developed Table Talks - an ongoing investigation into Filipino labour, performance performative / discursive project of his own. of happiness and production of fantasy within the happiness empire. 4 Friday

Gerald Raunig Zurich / Málaga Philosopher works at the eipcp and its multilingual publishing platform transversal texts, and as professor for philosophy at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. His books have been translated into English, Serbian, Spanish, Slovenian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and Turkish. Recent books: DIVIDUUM. Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution Vol. 1, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2016; Kunst und Revolution (Neuauflage), Wien et al.: transversal texts 2017.

Rok Vevar Ljubljana Publicist, dance historian, founder of The Slovene Temporary Dance Archives Rok Vevar is a writer, dramaturge, and historian of contemporary dance and theatre. He is the founder of The Slovene Temporary Dance Archives, since 2009 member of Nomad Dance Academy (regional and local organization), co-curator of CoFestival (Ljubljana). A dramaturge he collaborated with choreographers Sinja Ožbolt, Andreja Rauch Pozdravnik, Snježana Premuš, Kaja Lorenci etc. and in the recent years in Mladinsko theatre with Oliver Frljić, Ana Vujanović, Saša Aasentić etc. Bet- ween 2013-2015 – assistant professor at Aca- demy For Theatre in Ljubljana and Academy for Dance Ljubljana. 5

Saturday 12 AUGUST

10:00 11:00 Warm Up Session Talkback Session Angela Schubot of Friday Evening Panel Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski & In the warm up, we will practise a deep Jasmina Založnik listening to autonomous movements and forces inside and outside the body, which Jasmina Založnik Ljubljana, Aberdeen will breathe us, dance us, think us, dream Theoretician, dramaturge us. Creating a space of true listening before Jasmina Založnik is a theoretician and drama- clobbering what is there with our principals turge in the field of contemporary performing and desires. arts, completing a PhD in visual culture at the University of Aberdeen (UK) (fellowship Angela Schubot Berlin recipient of the Ministry of Culture of RS, the Dance artist Elphinstone PhD Scholarship), attempting As a dancer, researcher and artist, she to reconceive politics embraced in ‘alter- has developed her own solo-practice and native’ performative practices in the 1960, pieces based on the topic of the power- 1970s and 1980s in former Yugoslavia. Among less body. She is co-founder of Two Fish other things, she is a member of the regional (2000-2012) with Martin Clausen and works network Nomad Dance Academy, a member since 2009 with Jared Gradinger, developing of artistic board CoFestival and Performa&- pieces about the topic of debordering of the Platforma. She received the Slovenian national body. In 2016 she started to collaborate with award in contemporary dance – The Ksenija Robert Steijn, finding the brotherhood in Hribar award in the category for critic/writer/ what binds us in being different. Schubot is dramaturge in 2015. teaching movement research and is coaching a.o. at DOCH/University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, ImPulsTanz Wien, HZT-Berlin and SMASH Berlin. She finished her healing-education in the method “Danis Bois” and is travel- ling through Mexico and Peru, learning more about plant-medicine and how to let the mind drop into the heart. 6 Saturday

Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski Skopje 12:00 Cultural manager, curator Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski is a cultural Input Lecture worker – a manager and curator operating in the field of contemporary culture and Silke Bake (performing) arts as part of the independent Running riot, striking root art scene in Macedonia. She works on the Between embracing and questioning the re-evaluation of modes of artistic, cultural recent diversity and multiplicity: Is there production and collaboration, being active still a need to define what it would be— in research and advocacy for cultural policy contemporary dance? Is there something like matters. She holds a BA in the History of Art a historical derivation; in which way can we and Archaeology, an MA in Interculturalism, still consider dance as a critical praxis? Cultural Management and Cultural Policy from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and Silke Bake Berlin currently she is PhD candidate in the Faculty Dramaturge, curator, mentor of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She is executive Together with colleagues, artists and director and co-founder of NGO Lokomotiva institutions, she develops thematic and co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy programmes, discoursive and research (NDA). With Lokomotiva, she co-funded Kino formats in the field of contemporary Kultura-space for contemporary performing performing arts. She focuses on the social, arts and culture as well as Jadro- the asso- structural and geographic conditions (and ciation of the independent cultural scene in changes) of contemporary art production. Macedonia. She actively participates in cultu- She is the artistic director of the biennial ral and advocacy networks. She has initiated, programme Tanznacht Berlin (2016, 2018). curated and managed various projects and programs related to the contemporary performing arts, cultural policy, regional and international collaboration etc. She has authored articles and co-edited magazines and book publications. Since 2011 she is teaching at the Faculty for Music Arts in Skopje. Saturday 7

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

14:00–17:00 Isabel Lewis Berlin Artist Silke Bake (host), Philipp Gehmacher, Isabel Lewis’ interests circle dance and Isabel Lewis, Vanessa Joan Müller aesthetics in the space of social encounter. Stepsiblings? On the uncanny relation In the format she calls the hosted occasion, between performing and visual arts particular conditions are created for a cele- 4 Dialogues, discourse format bratory meeting of things, people, plants, Different agreements on time, space and music, smells and dances and where the objecthood are assigned to performing intellectual and the sensual are inseparable. and visual arts. In which way does an art Lewis’ occasions have been presented interna- form benefit from the respectively other tionally and most recently at Schirn Kunst- characteristics? What might be an enriching halle, Frankfurt and Tate Modern, London. expansion, what a misunderstanding? Vanessa Joan Müller Vienna Silke Bake Berlin Dramaturge, curator Dramaturge, curator, mentor is an art historian, curator and writer. Since Biography on page 6 2013, she has been dramaturge at Kunsthalle Wien. She develops special programs, Philipp Gehmacher Vienna publications, and various discursive formats. Choreographer, dancer, visual artist In addition, she curated exhibitions such as His artistic works use the body and language New Ways of Doing Nothing (2014), Function as forms of utterance, the built and instituti- Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality (2015), onal space, sculpture, objects, things. With Beton (2016) and More Than Just Words [On these works between Black Box and White the Poetic] (2017). Cube, Philipp Gehmacher is internationally represented at theatre festivals and in exhibition spaces (Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, steirischer herbst, Graz, Biennale of Sydney, Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival, Helsinki, Leopold Museum and mumok, Vienna). At ImPulsTanz 2017 he presented a four hour durational version of Die Dinge der Welt in mumok. Gehmacher is mentor and teacher at renowned training institutions such as P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, HZT in Berlin, DOCH in Stockholm and at the University of Salzburg. 8 Saturday

14:00–17:00 Astrid Kaminski Berlin Author, journalist Valentina Desideri, Astrid Kaminski, Astrid Kaminski lives in Berlin. As a freelnace Angela Schubot author and journalist she writes (about) Conversation and speculation on intuition dance, performance, poetry and social and performance, including fake/healing, political issues for dailies, magazines, ritual and the pathologies of non-existence artist’s publications and live formats. She is Practice in thinking and doing a co-founder of the collective collaborations Contemporary performances often use imagi- Viereinhalb Sätze – Texte über Tanz und BQ nations, appropriation or/and knowledge from (Body Questions). healing, ritualistic and shamanistic practices. How did those aesthetics develop? What is Angela Schubot Berlin the discourse, longing and ideology behind Dance artist it, and how do we deal with knowledge and As a dancer, researcher and artist, she non-knowledge in order to move forward into has developed her own solo-practice and another dimension of believing, thinking and pieces based on the topic of the power- creating? In this workshop, Valentina Desideri, less body. She is co-founder of Two Fish Astrid Kaminski and Angela Schubot try to (2000-2012) with Martin Clausen and works trace back actual developments and question since 2009 with Jared Gradinger, developing their socio-artistic potential. pieces about the topic of debordering of the body. In 2016 she started to collaborate with Valentina Desideri Amsterdam Robert Steijn, finding the brotherhood in Artist what binds us in being different. Schubot is Valentina Desideri is an Amsterdam-based teaching movement research and is coaching artist. She trained in contemporary dance at a.o. at DOCH/University of Dance and Circus the Laban Centre in London (2003–2006) and in Stockholm, ImPulsTanz Wien, HZT-Berlin and later on did her MA in Fine Arts at the Sand- SMASH Berlin. She finished her healing-educa- berg Institute in Amsterdam (2011–13). She tion in the method “Danis Bois” and is travel- does Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, she ling through Mexico and Peru, learning more co-organises Performing Arts Forum in France, about plant-medicine and how to let the mind she speculates in writing with Prof. Stefano drop into the heart. Harney, she engages in Poetical Readings with Prof. Denise Ferreira da Silva, she reads and writes. Saturday 9

14:00–17:00 14:00–17:00

Igor Dobricic Will Rawls The Underground Current of the Intermediate Certificate Course Materialism of the Encounter for Testing Your Theories of Race Table Talk This time will be spent hearing, writing, The light from the video projector is encoun- engaging strategies and failures of critical tering the surface of the table. The text, racial positions in choreography. It is for reflected from the surface, is encountering candid thought and self-reflection. Some the eye. The voice reading the text aloud from things we will discuss: Diversity is made behind the table is encountering the ear. necessary by segregation. Separatism may If we are to let a TABLE TALK to all of us, in this be good for choreography. Aesthetics will séance the encounter with Louis Althusser will not save us, or will it. All labour is racialized. be contingent upon our shared participation. What does the future look like. This workshop is for non-experts. It may help but it won’t solve Igor Dobricic Berlin/Amsterdam anything. Bring notebook and pen. Dramaturge Igor Dobricic is a freelance dramaturge living Will Rawls Brooklyn between Berlin and Amsterdam and working Choreographer internationally. He is regularly engaging Will Rawls is a choreographer and writer with students at the Amsterdam School for creating solo and group works that engage New Dance (SNDO) and for the last four relationships between language and dance, years he is working as a mentor in a context abstraction and subjectivity. He is a recipient of the K3 choreographic residency program of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Casinos in Hamburg. Eight years ago, as a research Austria 2016 Prix Jardin d’Europe. As an inter- fellow with the Amsterdam School of the preter and performer Rawls has worked with Arts, he developed Table Talks - an ongoing Marina Abramović, Jérôme Bel, Alain Buffard, performative / discursive project of his own. Maria Hassabi, Xavier Le Roy, Tino Sehgal and Shen Wei Dance Arts. His writing has been published by Artforum, Triple Canopy, les presses du réel, The Museum of Modern Art and The Hammer Museum. 10 Saturday

14:00–15:00 Mariella Greil Vienna works in the field of dance, choreography Nikolaus Gansterer & Mariella Greil and artistic research Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line Nikolaus Gansterer Vienna A lecture performance artist and performer The performance lecture addresses the qualitative processual vitalities of ‘how-ness’ Choreo–graphic Figures: Deviations from within shared artistic exploration, requiring a the Line (PEEK funded from 2014–2017) is thematic shift of attention from the realm of an artistic research collaboration between demarcated disciplinary specificity towards writer-artist Emma Cocker (UK), artist- an affective process-realm of forces and inten- performer Nikolaus Gansterer (AT) and choreo- sities (which we call figuring). We believe that grapher-dancer Mariella Greil (AT), in dialogue the identification of explicit shifts or transfor- with Alex Arteaga, Christine De Smedt, Lilia mation in property, quality or state of being, Mestre and other guests. collapsing the lines of distinction between Deeply interested in the links between activity/passivity, animate/inanimate, sub- drawing, thinking and action, Nikolaus ject/object, self/world impacts singularly and Gansterer is a lecturer, at the Institute for meaningfully on the nanopolitics of society. Transmedia Art, and guest professor at the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Mariella Greil is interested in expanded notions of the choreographic, somatic practices as compositional tools and the ethics of togetherness. She lectures internationally, is part of the artists’ initiative Sweet&Tender Collaborations, and previously was Associate Researcher of Performance Matters, London, and Senior Editor of the e-journal activate. Saturday 11

14:00–15:00 Simone Willeit Berlin Managing Director Uferstudios Berlin Maria F. Scaroni, Simone Willeit Since 2016 Simone Willeit shares the manage- The enthusiastic, curious ment of Uferstudios GmbH Berlin with Barbara monkeys on strike Friedrich. Before she worked in the leading An ignorant conversation about labour team of Tanzbüro Berlin in dialogue with between a dancer and an art administrator. political decision makers in order to improve the working and production conditions of dan- Maria F. Scaroni Berlin cers and choreographers based in Berlin, to Dance artist enhance their visibility and to accompany the Maria F. Scaroni is a dance artist. She inter- artists. Before she changed sides and moved prets choreographic works, creates dances to the desk she worked as a performer in the and hosts dance workshops. Trained inde- freelance dance communities in Berlin and pendently, moved to Berlin in 2004, where New York and as a dramaturge and produc- she works as a freelance dancer performing/ tion manager for diverse companies and festi- creating with Jess Curtis, Jeremy Wade, Frank vals. Parallel she studied theatre and cultural Willens, Tino Sehgal, Vania Rovisco, Hannah sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Hegenscheidt, Wilhelm Groener, (a.o.). Since was assistant to Dr. Huschka in the frame of 2011 Maria collaborates with Meg Stuart, the project Dance and Knowledge at the Free (Until Our Hearts Stop, Sketches/Notebook, University, Berlin. Since its foundation in 2012, with its following initiative Supernova, and Simone Willeit is a spokesperson of Koalition Built To Last), sharing with her and part of the der Freien Szene Berlin and involved on a Berlin dance community, the commitment to voluntary basis in further coalitions of artists’ improvisation as a performance event (City movements in Germany and internationally. Lights, Auf den Tisch!, Politics of Ecstasy). Scaroni’s choreographic works focus on the process of collaboration, play with durational experiences and are featured by a crossbree- ding between performance, choreography and installation. Maria teaches in Berlin’s University HZT and is involved in developing independent training programs (in Berlin, P.O.R.C.H. and Smash) researching the body as material. She holds a Masters degree in Italian Modern Literature, with a thesis on education and dance. 12 Saturday

15:00–17:00 15:00–17:00

Selma Banich Diego Agulló Dance and Commons: Betraying Ambition: What Moves You? What do we fight for? A lecture on Art and Ethics Assembly (including discussion) We make precarious living. We labour (pro- The premise of this lecture is that we are made duce), experience and consume art in con- to believe in ambition because ambition is ditions (systems) created and controlled by something good. There is a benevolent mantra someone else. Due to the collapse of the social that tells us “be ambitious”, but, what state, we bear the burden of the social repro- if ambition would have been politicized duction and take part in commodification of and ideologized? My attempt is to unfold culture unwillingly - I will make a short ana- some ethical implications of being an lysis of the current situation in Zagreb, and artist in the times of creative capitalism. then invite us to start a discussion on common I will make use of the concept of “anartism” tendencies, problems and phenomena in the to introduce an ongoing process of spectral art field and it’s relation to the struggles of oscillation as a life practice. millions of others as precarious as us. Diego Agulló Berlin Selma Banich Zagreb Independent researcher, dilettante artist Artist is an independent researcher and a dilettante Performance artist, lives and works in Zagreb. artist investigating the affinity between the Has authored a series of artworks, created concepts of Body and Event. Diegoʼs frame of independently or in collaboration with other research is called Theoros, and it is dedicated artists, groups, and initiatives. She uses the to create contexts for learning and investi- medium of dance performance, performance gating the role of the body in the practice of art, and action in public space, both on film theory. It deals with the intersection between and in theater, simultaneously being enga- pedagogy and art, dilettantism and profes- ged in the field of non-formal education and sionalism. In this light, the artistic practice practice-based research. While conceiving becomes a way of practicing philosophy. and presenting her own work, she strives The workshops are facilitated frames for a to give priority to ethics over aesthetics, temporary collective body to engage in the empathy over utopia, art making over politics, process of dancing a series of practical prob- and nature over society, thus expanding the lems using the methodology of cyclic interval context for further learning, creation and par- oscillation, a practice that seeks to keep open ticipation in the organization of labor. the relation to alterity.

www.diegoagullo.com www.diegoagulloworkshop.wordpress.com Saturday 13

17:30 Wrap Up Session Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski & Jasmina Založnik

Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski Skopje Cultural manager, curator

Jasmina Založnik Ljubljana, Aberdeen Theoretician, dramaturge

Biographies on page 5 + 6 14

Sunday 13 AUGUST

10:00 12:00 Warm Up Session Input Lecture

Maria F. Scaroni Gurur Ertem Totentanz. A dance contemplation on The Contemporary Condition and equality Instituting by the Hearth Biography on page 11 In this paper, which originates from my ongoing work Field Notes on Instituting, I will address from my particular position and con- 11:00 text some key issues regarding the promises and predicaments of existing models and Talkback Session programs of cultural institutions. By focusing on the social phenomenon of storytelling as Katalin Erdődi & Yosi Wanunu an extended metaphor for art and instituting practices, I aim to offer additional insights Katalin Erdődi Vienna/Budapest into how the arts can contribute to opening up Curator and dramaturgical advisor mental and material spaces differently and lives and works in Vienna and Budapest as help to change our imagination of change. independent curator, dramaturgy advisor and cultural worker. Since 2016 she is co-cu- Dr. Gurur Ertem Istanbul rator of the cross-disciplinary monthly series Sociologist, founding co-director DerBlödeDritteMittwoch with Dieter Kovacic of IDANS Festival and Arnold Haberl. As a dramaturgy advisor Gurur Ertem is the founding co-director she works with artists such as Gin Müller, Oleg of iDANS International Contemporary Dance Soulimenko, Sööt/Zeyringer and Doris Uhlich. and Performance Festival (Istanbul, 2006- 2013-15 she was artistic director of imagetanz 2014). She received her Ph.D. in Sociology festival and curator in brut Wien. from The New School for Social Research (New York) in 2016 with the thesis titled EUropean Yosi Wanunu Vienna Dance: The Emergence and Transformation of Director a Contemporary Dance Art World (1989-2013). is part of the performance group toxic dreams. Ertem specializes in the sociology of culture The group’s work is not confined to the and the arts; the body and social theory; and theatrical stage. Over the years toxic dreams critical theory. Ertem is currently working on created on site performance pieces, installa- new research and writing about cultures of tion, film and video work, original music shows resistance and the body and social-political ranging from new opera to musicals, publis- psychology as well as working on alternative hed art books, re-imagined classical titles and instituting practices. She lives in Istanbul. developed new methods of working with kids and young adults in the education system. www.gururertem.info In addition he teaches and work with various artists from the EU and UK. Sunday 15

14:00 14:00–16:00 Afternoon Sessions Isabel Lewis Sense and Sensuality In this workshop Lewis will share ideas behind 14:00–17:00 her practice with a focus on movement. No formal training of any kind is required and all Valentina Desideri adults with a curiosity about dance and other Political Therapy - a group session embodied practices are encouraged to attend. This session of Political Therapy will address Lewis will introduce feminist sociologist Roslyn the ethical questions that emerged during the H. Bologh’s notion of “erotic sociability” as a ImPulsTanz Festival in relation to its policy of form of interhuman sociality and guide a con- inclusion/exclusion. Beginning with a ques- versation about this as an alternative to the tion, we will use hands-on healing techniques dominant 20th century relational modalities – already existing as well as newly invented of competition, conflict, and coercion. This ones – to engage in speculative and transver- workshop will then focus on the tuning and sal conversations about the political problem heightening of the senses in order to facilitate at hand. It is an experiment in developing a state of hyper-presence that will be the aid other ways and language to deal with poli- towards generative and affective forms of tics, crisis and our agency in it. It is open to being and dancing together. anyone interested in having the conversation through different means. Isabel Lewis Berlin Artist Valentina Desideri Amsterdam Isabel Lewis’ interests circle dance and Artist aesthetics in the space of social encounter. Valentina Desideri is an Amsterdam-based In the format she calls the hosted occasion, artist. She trained in contemporary dance at particular conditions are created for a the Laban Centre in London (2003–2006) and celebratory meeting of things, people, plants, later on did her MA in Fine Arts at the Sand- music, smells and dances and where the berg Institute in Amsterdam (2011–13). She intellectual and the sensual are inseparable. does Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, she Lewis’ occasions have been presented co-organises Performing Arts Forum in France, internationally and most recently at Schirn she speculates in writing with Prof. Stefano Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Tate Modern, Harney, she engages in Poethical Readings London. with Prof. Denise Ferreira da Silva, she reads and writes. 16 Sunday

14:00–15:00 15:00–17:00

Anne Breure Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski & Fair Practice Label in the Arts Ivana Vaseva If in artworks and performances artists How to make a festival with 100 Euros propose certain values such as solidarity, and 1.000.000 Euros sustainability, equality; how is this translated With Inge Koks (Amsterdam), to the way we organise their production? Do Marijana Cvetkovic (Belgrade) and others art institutions work and produce according The idea of this discussion/game emerged to the same values they transmit with their from the text The Festival as a “Microphysics works? Can they practice what they preach? of Power” (Michel Foucault) in the Region What are the values the arts sector has and to of the former Yugoslavia where the notion of what extend is it able and willing to perform festival – the transformation, structure, and them not only on stage or in the exhibition the meaning of it is overviewed as well as its space, but also in offices and production contemporary understanding in the context of structure? Can ethics and aesthetics be united the ex-Yugoslavian countries that once were on all levels? In the midst of budget squeezes part of a big federation. and increasing pressure to perform according As the rapid socio-economical and political to quantitative standards, how can we assure changes are influencing the art production, that arts practices are ethically responsible creation processes, curatorial concepts, and sustainable? selection procedures and the formats in which A worksession with an introduction about a art is presented, redefining the roles of the “Fair Practice Label” in the arts and a collec- curators, audiences, artists, etc. we want to tive search to which values we hold and want investigate how this is shaping the art context. to produce by. Starting from here, this discussion/game is created in order to see if our speculations cor- Anne Breure Amsterdam respond, or open ruptures within the frames Artistic Director of Veem House for that create the society today: how curatorial Performance concepts/ ideas are influenced by the econo- Anne Breure is the artistic director of Veem mic power, what directions art can take (cura- House for Performance, the production house ting also), and at the end of it, in what kind of for the development of dance/performance art we believe, but maybe more importantly and discourse in Amsterdam. She received her what kind of society do we envision in these MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, Univer- precarious times. sity of London and graduated from the Theater School in Amsterdam. Sunday 17

Furthermore, we also analyse our experien- Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski Skopje ces when festivals are in question - what we Cultural manager, curator have learned in the course of our work, how Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski is a cultural do we evaluate what we have achieved and worker – a manager and curator operating what is the festivals’ surrounding today, what in the field of contemporary culture and it offers and how it treats every novelty in arts (performing) arts as part of the independent and cultural field. We also question the role(s) art scene in Macedonia. She works on the of curators, programmers and how this role re-evaluation of modes of artistic, cultural shapes the politics, economy and context. Or production and collaboration, being active to be cynical – who is first- the curatorship or in research and advocacy for cultural policy the market? matters. She holds a BA in the History of Art With this project and with what we generally and Archaeology, an MA in Interculturalism, do, we try to get out of the generally propo- Cultural Management and Cultural Policy sed matrix and try to ponder and speculate from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and upon its very structure: the festivals to be a currently she is PhD candidate in the Faculty field of formulation of new working protocols, of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She is executive relations and bonds, new concepts, new eco- director and co-founder of NGO Lokomotiva nomy and economic relations, a space where and co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy new social capital can be created as well as (NDA). With Lokomotiva, she co-funded Kino public cultural values (return the public in the Kultura-space for contemporary performing public). arts and culture as well as Jadro- the asso- This research is an attempt, a desire to see ciation of the independent cultural scene in things differently and more clearly in a situa- Macedonia. She actively participates in cultu- tion of years’ long and stagnant consumption ral and advocacy networks. She has initiated, and production of festivals. It tries to get out curated and managed various projects and of one set of experiences and modes and to programs related to the contemporary perfor- promote new values that are analogue to ming arts, cultural policy, regional and inter- the precarious times in which we live in. national collaboration etc. She has authored articles and co-edited magazines and book publications. Since 2011 she is teaching at the Faculty for Music Arts in Skopje. 18 Sunday

Ivana Vaseva Skopje 17:00 Freelance curator Ivana Vaseva is a freelance curator and art Wrap Up Session historian working in the field of contemporary visual arts. The focus of her professional Katalin Erdődi, Mårten Spångberg & Yosi Wanunu interest in the past few years refers to the re-examination of the agency of art and its production in the broader socio - political and Katalin Erdődi Vienna/Budapest economic system as well as the re-affirmation Curator and dramaturgical advisor and analysis of its potency and potentiality towards stimulating changes (at least emo- Yosi Wanunu Vienna tional and speculative) in different contexts. Director On one side, this is manifested by using and testing different, often alternative and infor- Biographies on page 14 mal educational practices and methods as an emancipator means and on the other, though Mårten Spångberg Brussels art projects that interrogate the relationship Choreographer between art and politics i.e. projects that Mårten Spångberg is a choreographer living investigate how art fulfills its political com- and working in Brussels. He is professor in ponent and opens ruptures in its own frames choreography at the Art Academy of Oslo and and the bigger context that is inhabits. She associate artist at Black Box theatre Oslo. graduated on the Faculty of art history at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, was one of the participants of the project Deschooling classroom (collective self-education in the arts and culture) and she specia- lized in the field of curating in visual arts as part of the Curatorial Program (2011/2012) of de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She curated many exhibitions and projects in Macedonia and abroad and is co-curator of AKTO Festival for contemporary arts in Bitola, Macedonia.