theory

Frakcija, Performing Arts Magazine, was established ten years ago by a group of dramaturgs, theatre theoreticians, critics and artists based in Zagreb. From its first issue FRAKCIJA has been providing a theoretical and critical support for projects that were of marginal interest to the (not only Croatian) mainstream media, theatre criticism and official drama and theatre studies.


:: Maska

Maska, Journal for Performing Arts is published in three double issues a year, each issue dedicated to one specific topic.


NOT QUITE-NOT RIGHT EASTERN WESTERN DANCE

[Ana Vujanović]
In order to write about the actual situation of contemporary dance in Serbia, I must begin by conceptualizing and contextualizing the local dance scene through its synchronic relationship with neighboring scenes and other European or Western scenes. As contemporary dance is a new phenomenon in Serbia, there are two problematic theses that I would like to put forward as starting points.

PREMA TEHNO-HUMANISTICI: manifest

[Mikhail N. Epstein ]
STVARALAČKA STRANA HUMANISTIKE još uvek nije naišla na prihvatanje u zvaničnoj klasifikaciji i metodologiji naučnih disciplina. Da li je humanistika oblast koja se bavi isključivo izučavanjem, ili bi u njoj trebalo da bude i aktivnog, konstruktivnog dopunjavanja? Znamo da tehnologija služi kao praktično proširivanje ("primenjivanje") prirodnih nauka, kao što je politika proširivanje društvenih nauka.

THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR

[Jacques Rancière]
I gave to this talk the title: «the emancipated spectator». As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts, problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other.

THE PASSION OF PROCEDURALISM

[Bojana Cvejić]
One of the first comments I could call out after the performance of The Theatre of Repetitions was: finally! Finally an event where music and theatre engage on an autonomous third plane of philosophy, saved from the obsessive search for a suitable Musik+Theater relationship whereby the capacity for representation in music traditionally is weighed against theatrical staging.

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION

[Robert Luxemburg]
When Marx undertook his critique of the capitalistic mode of production, this mode was in its infancy. Marx directed his efforts in such a way as to give them prognostic value. He went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic production and through his presentation showed what could be expected of capitalism in the future. The result was that one could expect it not only to exploit the proletariat with increasing intensity, but ultimately to create conditions which would make it possible to abolish capitalism itself.

[call for applications] AKADEMIE SCHLOSS SOLITUDE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME / deadline: 31.10.2008. / Stuttgart


For the twelfth time in 18 years the international residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude - located in Stuttgart, Germany - is granting approx. 65 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: Architecture, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Literature, Music/Sound and Video/Film/New Media.

[call for applications] IMAGINARY PROPERTY -- research project / deadline: 15 June 2008 / Jan van Eyck Academie


Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the department of Design.

[call for applications] STEIRISCHERHERBST - Herbst Academy 09 / deadline: 31. 07. 2009. / Graz


The Herbst Academy 2009 takes place within Steirischer Herbst; in Graz, Austria, in October 2009. It consists of 2 workshops for students, artists, theorists and others. Workshop 1: A Long Memory of Cocaine; Modernity and the transformations of value and labour (by Max Hinderer). Workshop 2: Stratagames - A Theatre of Operations (by Tomislav Medak, Sergej Goran Pristas & Ivana Ivković / BADco).

[call for projects] ADVANCED PERFORMANCE TRAINING :: postgraduate program / deadline : 10. 01. 2009. / Belgium


APT is post-graduate training programme, part of PoPoK. It is an open research environment, based on the principles of self-education and collaboration. During a 12 month trajectory the participants are invited to develop their personal research project, in 3 separate blocks of 3 months.

[call/reminder] PAF: WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) / 26-12-09 - 03-01-10 / St.Erme (Fr)


The WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) 2009 will be from 26/12/09-3/1/10. You are free to come for a longer or shorter time. You are invited to make proposals for lectures, workshops, showings, classes or discussions.

[new book] METAFORAS.ORG -- free online arts and technology textbook


This dynamic website explores the aesthetic and historical conditions of digital media’s exciting multifaceted dialog. Profuse and imaginative illustrations, wikis, chronologies, and multimedia examples are an engaging aid to designers, artists and humanists.

[new book] STATE ON STAGE, The impact of public policies on the performing arts in Europe


State on Stage tunes in on the relationship between governments and performing arts in European countries over the past fifteen years. In order to survive, performing arts organizations in Europe must adapt to ongoing changes in the artistic, commercial and political climate.

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