projekti

opis projekata

Within the frame of TkH platform more than 20 theoretical-artistic programs and public actions have been organized: theoretical/artistic performances, installations, exhibitions, performance lectures, video films, educational-artivist projects etc. What connects most of them is re-reading various artistic disciplines (theatre, dance, opera, digital art, video), institutions (museum, gallery, university, Italian stage), and discourses (theory, dramaturgy, criticism), through the performance, as a critical practice that intervenes in the public space of the current society and culture.

[digital performance][archive]PSYCHOSIS AND DEATH OF THE AUTHOR: ALGORITHM YU-03/04.13 / Belgrade and www / 2004

Psychosis and Death of the Author: Algorithm – YU03/04.13 is theory based digital (CD-Rom, LAN, and Internet) theatre performance researching performing arts in the age of new media.

[illegal_cinema]

[illegal_cinema] is conceived as an open (self-) educational project of exchange and contextualization of author, documentary, activist, queer, anarchist, forbidden and other marginalized and in the local context hardly accessible films.

[performance][archive]ACTRESS (WORK) IN PROGRESS intellectual striptease / Stuttgart-Belgrade / 2004-2005

... Besides baring herself to the flesh, the Actress will bare the audiences’ desire, not only embodying it, but also analyzing what she performs and confronting her ideal photo-self, her stage-self and her work-in-progress private-self.

[performance][archive]L’ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À SOLITUDE / Stuttgart-Belgrade / 2006 and 2008

Was it a thriller? A hopless love story? A melodrama? Is it about aliens, or dead men, or vampires, or lovers, or a fantasy? Or is it a dream? Or a cinema experiment, or the myth of Orpheus, or about the way we remembr things, or just about "persusasion"...or a pop video?

[publication]RASTER 2008 – Yearbook of the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Serbia

Raster 2008 – Yearbook of the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Serbia is a bilingual directory of 24 authors/groups and their projects in the performing arts field – dance, alternative theatra and performance art/actions that had their premiere in 2008. Integral publication in the PDF format can be downloaded from this site.

[publication]RASTER 2009 – Yearbook of the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Belgrade

Raster is structured as a directory of 23 productions and projects in the domain of performing arts, premiered throughout 2009 on the Belgrade independent stages. Raster 2009 in Serbian or English in PDF format can be downloaded from the bottom of this page.

[self-education]DESCHOOLING CLASSROOM(o^o)/ Self-education in the arts and culture / Skopje-Belgrade / 2009-2012

Deschooling Classroom is a project that addresses the contemporary independent cultural scenes in the region, researching and offering an alternative to the hierarchical models of education in the art and culture. Methodologically, the project moves away from the concepts of individual authorship and expertise, and advocates open collective educational structures where self-organised communities facilitate horizontal production, exchange and distribution of knowledge.

[self-education][archive]KNOWLEDGE SMUGGLING! / Belgrade / 2008-09

Through the project Knowledge smuggling! (Šverc znanja!) we would like to open a temporary hole in the dominant knowledge market and intervene in the existing system of production and exchange of knowledge, smuggling it from official educational institutions into the sphere of individual needs and as-free-as-possible cultural spaces.

[self-education][archive]s-o-s project / Belgrade / 2006-2008

s-o-s project (2006-07) was conceived as an open system of theoretical-research, public lessons and textual production that implemented the practices of post-pedagogy in the fields of art theory, cultural activism, and educational methods. Its goal was to shape critical alternatives to the official educational institutions in the direction of self-education as a collective practice. Key concepts were: artistic education, knowledge production, self-education, (workers) self-management, open source procedures in education, and commodification of knowledge.

[theoretical activism] HOW TO DO THINGS BY THEORY / TkH in collaboration with Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers / 2010-12 / Paris

The mission of this theoretically activist platform is not to resolve social problems but to animate the local contemporary art scene to become more aware of its social context and production conditions, to re-think its own position, place, practice and discourse and, above all, to be more active in transforming a feeling of “cannot” – within the limits or horizons of possibility are – into its own, self-organized “can”.

[theoretical performance][archive] ENJOYING IN DECONSTRUCTION / Zagreb / 2003

Performance consists of seven smaller pieces performed mainly simultaneously in different spaces of Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

[theoretical performance][archive]BOXING MATCH ready-made theatre / Belgrade / 2007

BOXING MATCH — ready-made theatre is a literal boxing match realised according to all professional standards of boxing as a sport. However, that boxing match is transplanted in the institution of theatre, and surrounded with literal theatre protocol

[theoretical performance][archive]DreamOpera / Piran-Belgrade / 2001

Electronic opera composed of sampled and processed fragments of 6 operas from Monteverdi to Cage, live amplified piano, no conductor; 3 musicologists, 1 composer 1 theatrologist, 1 professor of aesthetics, 1 painter, 1 theatre director

[theoretical performance][archive]PERFORMING GENDER / Belgrade / 2002

Performance is realized though 50 minutes of simultaneous performing of theoretical-practical events of constructing and deconstructing of ideological apparatuses of gender.

[theoretical performance][archive]TkH: The Last Theoretical Performance "Générique " / 2009

After a long line of theoretical performances that were performed since 2001 in opera house, boxing ring, botanical gardens, on the internet, TV, radio, in the university amphitheatre, classroom, museum, gallery, paper and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Walking Theory (TkH) shows its body for the last time. Tits, to be more precise.

[TV performance][archive]SMS GUERILLA / Belgrade / 2005

Direct goal: temporary takeover of mass media for contemporary arts General goal: re-politicizing the non-political space of the mass media in transitional Serbia by the means of contemporary art.