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.