Premiere of a new work on 26th, 27th and 28th of January 2012 in Zagreb Dance Centre
Every movement, every state of the human body is directly conditioned by the protocols which are activated by the space in which the body is present. Reversible, a kinesthetic tension of actual space allows the body its reference field. Never exhausted body-space drive, in its affirmational production of always new options, tells us about the possibility of creating a wider perceptual field in which every abstraction is already available. Body and space alternately affirm its factual presence and absence, and the layers of continuous renewal and reconstruction of what is physically present and what is going to be driven by a kinesthetic tension creates a territory of a performance. Be it architectural space, imaginary space or ideological space, tools with which the empty space is filled with meanings are part of the different modes of choreographic thinking. The mode of investigation we used was based on the forensics of conditions that made this spaces empty and available in the first place, i.e. suitable for a proper artistic intervention – educational procedures, institutional framings, contract arrangements in the dance market, division of labor, logic of responsibility, money flow, material conditions of rehearsal spaces etc. Through searching for some patterns in those areas we induced it back to choreographic reaction. How is it possible to choreographically fill the space by the engagement with the real abstractions, ideological sediments and material infrastructures that constitute the empty place as such? Instead of approaching a choreographic creation in linear perspective, this performance drives all parts of the process simultaneously, forming a specific format between personal history, history of spatial systems and the excesses of fiction. This new work of a choreographer Marjana Krajač and dramaturg Marko Kostanić was created in Berlin and Zagreb, in cooperation with dancers Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé, Jacob Peter Kovner, Chloé Serres and Ana Rocha. Concept and choreography: Marjana Krajač Dramaturgy: Marko Kostanić Performed by: Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé, Jacob Peter Kovner, Chloé Serres, Ana Rocha Lighting design, sound and video processing: Bojan Gagić Graphic design: Valentina Toth Production: Sodaberg Realized with the support of Uferstudios / Tanzfabrik Berlin, Zagreb Dance Centre, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, City Office for Culture Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia. With friendly support of Choreoroam 2011 Project by CSC Bassano del Grappa / Opera Estate Festival, The Place London, Rotterdam Dansateliers, a-2/Certamen Choreography Paso de Madrid and Zagreb Dance Center. Booklet of a performance: Booklet_MANUAL FOR EMTPY SPACES_Marjana Krajac PRESS Review / Recenzija Zarez: Dnevnik kao performans i performativni dnevnik – Nataša Govedić Review / Recenzija Kulisa.eu: Plesati s olovkom u ruci – Katja Šimunić Intervju za 3. program Hrvatskog radija, emisija “Jednočinka”: intervju online Video-interview for the project eks10: online here
New solo work that is going to be premiered at Teatro Viriato, Viseu – Portugal, on 10th of May 2011, in the frame of W-Est_Where programme. Upcoming in 2011: at RE.AL Lisbon in residency 1st – 6th of May at Teatro Viriato, Viseu – Portugal on 10th of May at Danceweek Festival, in Zagreb on 30th of May at Croatian Dance Platform, in Zagreb on 12th of June at Symposium Politics of Spectatorship at Zagreb Dance Center on 26th of November My body is not owned by me. I am using it, I am feeding it, I am perceiving the world with it. Complete perception in what ever ground is possible only through the fact of embodiment. If I would not be embodied I would not be able to read the world – the world would be an amorphous unreadable mass of something indefinable. So, I am defining the world and myself in it via the body. Still, however essential my embodiment may be for my own existence, I am not the owner of my body. My body is repressed by protocols, architecture, space structures, other bodies, education, dance education, physical survival, economical survival, emotional survival, pain; and, at times my body is also repressed by its very self. If I am not the owner, that means that I am sharing it with some other instance, that some other instances too claim and execute the right to use my body: to navigate it, to count on it, to take my body into the responsibility. Choreographic practice then would be the place to zoom into this consideration: of reclaiming the body for limited space-time frame in order to own it fully again. And, also to encounter other bodies in this frame which are also temporarily reclaimed, so that (though still burdened by our social codes) we can eventually establish some other form of transfer to each other, some other quality of humanoid consideration, some other common ground, instead of one that is repressively inscribed in the outer world.
Concept, choreography and performance: Marjana Krajač Photo: Gordana Obradović-Dragišić Dramaturgical support: Marko Kostanić Light design: Bojan Gagić Graphic design: Valentina Toth Realized and supported by: Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, Zagreb Dance Center, Danceweek festival, Teatro Viriato Viseu Portugal, RE.AL Lisbon, in the frame of W-Est_Where Programme, Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia and City Office for Culture Zagreb Many thanks to: João Fiadeiro, Petra Zanki and libela.org Booklet accompanying the performance here as PDF: Booklet: Short fantasy about reclaiming the ownership over my own body
Choreographer Marjana Krajač gives interview for Kulturpunkt.hr: klick here Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, performer and collaborator in WORK EVERY DAY, gives answers on FAQs about her participation as re-performer at Marina Abramović’s Retrospective at New York’s MoMA: klick here
Coming up on 29th of May in Split, 31st of May in Rijeka and 1st of June in Zagreb at Danceweek Festival Zagreb. WORK EVERY DAY leads you, in several frames, through the intrigues of the working bodies. The documentary mode of work produces a surplus, that is, layers of fiction which are always on the edge of narration. The story is missing, but the memories of a movie you haven’t watched remain. Concept and choreography: Marjana Krajač Performed and created by: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Bettina Bölkow, Elisa Fernández Arteta, Chloé Serres. Dramaturgy: Wiebke Hensle and Marko Kostanić Assistance: Leonardo Krakić Stage design: Gordan Karabogdan Light design: Bojan Gagić Translation: Stipe Ćurković WORK EVERY DAY is realized within the project EL 2010: TRANSFER Project is funded by Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia and City Office for Culture Zagreb Hosted ans supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance and by Center for contemporary dance in Zagreb – Zagreb Dance Center. We thank to: Jasna Žmak, Petra Zanki, Mark Boldin, Ludger Orlok, D. B. Indoš, Iva Korenčić, Corinna Friese and Andrea Hagedorn, Hana Jušić, Mate Kapović, Vlado Bulić, Johanne Timm, Nikolina Marmilić and EkS-scena.
Our project THE STORE was selected for the final selection of the T-HT Award of the newly opened MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART in Zagreb and will be presented there from 26th of February to 28th of March 2010.
Coming up on 25th, 26th and 27th of February 2010 at 20:00 h, at Center for Contemporary Dance in Zagreb Zagreb Dance Center. WORK EVERY DAY leads you, in several frames, through the intrigues of the working bodies. The documentary mode of work produces a surplus, that is, layers of fiction which are always on the edge of narration. The story is missing, but the memories of a movie you haven’t watched remain. Concept and choreography: Marjana Krajač Performed and created by: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Bettina Bölkow, Elisa Fernández Arteta, Chloé Serres. Dramaturgy: Wiebke Hensle and Marko Kostanić Assistance: Leonardo Krakić Stage design: Gordan Karabogdan Light design: Bojan Gagić Translation: Stipe Ćurković WORK EVERY DAY is realized within the project EL 2010: TRANSFER Project is funded by Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia and City Office for Culture Zagreb Hosted ans supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance and by Center for contemporary dance in Zagreb – Zagreb Dance Center. We thank to: Jasna Žmak, Petra Zanki, Mark Boldin, Ludger Orlok, D. B. Indoš, Iva Korenčić, Corinna Friese and Andrea Hagedorn, Hana Jušić, Mate Kapović, Vlado Bulić, Johanne Timm, Nikolina Marmilić and EkS-scena.
THE STORE opens the door again! - on 16th, 17th and 18th of October 2009 / 20:00 h / at Showroom of Gallery Nova in Zagreb - on 4th of November 2009 / 20:00 h / at Magazin in TRANSWARP Conference in Belgrade THE STORE is: performance, happening, memorabilia parlour, shop. And the real store. THE STORE is a place of accumulations, sedimentations and leftovers in which the authors team Marjana Krajač, Nina Kurtela, Gordan Karabogdan, Iva Korenčić creates a work which translates performative fragments into the context of an object, item or artifact. Instead of a careful preservation of the art as manifestation, the accumulated and archived performative material is transported into the environment of objectual desire opening the discourse about what is of value, what is documentation and what are the archives. Besides its simplicity and accessibility for the public and its’ openness for a wide range of interpretations, supplementations and contextualisations, THE STORE, with its’ radical set of premises, affirmatively destabilizes authors, audience and content proposing the happening of art as the constant matter of dialog and negotiation. Temporarily adopting Rem Koolhaas’s premise that „shopping is arguably the last remaining form of public activity“, THE STORE is an open call to the public activity focusing on the potentiality of this public activity which freely declares an esthetic event. THE STORE is a work on the interface of choreography, arts and applied arts. It is made by group of authors from choreographic, contemporary dance, art and art design field. All artifacts, products and objects are made in Croatia. Manufacturing the objects and personally visiting and working with small factories and manufacturers around Zagreb opened for us an complex issue of market, economy, world economy and transition economies in Eastern Europe. We still have ongoing talks about that topic. More about making of: http://thestore.sodaberg.hr PRESS: „The most controversial project of thisyears Danceweek Festival.“ Teatar.hr “Joyful irony of this un-dance project talks about the dance much more than a lot of guest performances that we saw. “ Igor Ruzic, Vijenac “As in her recent works, Marjana Krajac on very interesting way radicalizes and very careful develops certain, exceptionally up-to-date and often discouraging idea.” Iva Nerina Sibila, Kulisa.eu
Authors team: Marjana Krajač, Iva Korenčić, Nina Kurtela Concept: Marjana Krajač Design: Gordan Karabogdan Space design: Nina Kurtela Performed by: Andreja Široki, Nino Bokan, Iva Korenčić, Nina Kurtela, Marjana Krajač Light and set up: Mario Vnučec Production: Sodaberg Realized with the support of City Office for Culture Zagreb. Realized with the support of Gallery Nova Zagreb.
THE BOOK 2008
Available at http://thebook.sodaberg.hr During the year 2008 we initiated a series of talks with authors, choreographers and dance makers of the younger generation of Croatian dance scene. We invited eleven artists to position their own work within a textual frame, opening a discourse on methodologies of work, visibility of the context in which the artistic work find its perception, phenomenologies of the body, strategies of artistic survival, future plans and current circumstances. The platform which we opened is imagined as a web archive, interface for a dialog, interface for artist-to-artist dialog and an open format for further talks. THE BOOK 2008 is realized through the support of Municipal Department of Culture, City of Zagreb. Author of the project: Marjana Krajač. Collaboration on the project: Nikolina Pristaš. Assistance, collaboration, and logistics: Iva Korenčić. Photos and design: Iva Korenčić. Translation: Marina Miladinov.