Public Conversations “Practices: Strategies and Tactics”
This series of public conversations pursues research about the practices of artists, curators, theoreticians and how they work. It is an inquiry about how their work structures their life and vice versa.
The meetings will be guided by questions about what and how they do and make “things” related to art and their everyday life, exploring notions such as: tactics, strategies, freedom, making a living, application, project, embodiment, friendship, individual, collective… as well as other current concerns, related to their contexts and practices.
The different guests are invited to participate in a public conversation in the evening and a “studio visit” during the day, in which the students of the institute will have the occasion to invite them to share questions about their current works; show something; or have a one on one conversation about a topic of their interest.
Next Dates:
VALERIA GRAZIANO// 08.05.2024
Valeria Graziano holds the position of DAAD visiting lecturer at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen, and serves as an associate researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka. Over the years, she has been involved in a number of participatory action research initiatives across social movements and the cultural sector. Her primary focus has been on themes such as militant conviviality, the refusal of work, the politics of recreation, and collective repair. Graziano is one of the initiators of the Pirate Care Syllabus project, with an upcoming book to be published by Pluto Press in their Vagabond series. She also coordinates the Working Group “Analysis, Theory & Politics Of Care” (COST Action CA21102). Currently, Valeria is involved in the project “Figure It Out!” (funded by Creative Europe), a creative and intellectual inquiry on strategies of popular illegalism. Her publications are freely accessible here: https://hcommons.org/members/valerix/
METTE EDVARDSEN// 15.05.2024
The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked since 1994 as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects, and develops her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer. A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box theatre in Oslo in 2015, and the focus program Idiorritmias at MACBA in Barcelona in 2018. Her project Time has fallen alseep in the afternoon sunshine is ongoing since 2010, presented twice at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in 2013 & 2017, Sydney Biennale in 2016, Index Foundation in Stockholm in 2019, Oslobiennalen First Edition in 2019-2020, Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong in 2021, Sao Paulo Biennale 2021. She presented works and a performative exhibition 'Suppose a Room' at Amant in New York in 2022, and develops a project in long term residency at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in Paris 2022/ 2023.
MALA KLINE // 22.05.2024
Mala Kline is a performer, choreographer and writer. Her artistic and theoretical work is embedded in the practice of dreaming. Her extensive oeuvre is based on the Saphire® dreaming techniques, which she uses to open up ingenious spaces of experience and generate semantically fluid contradictory imagery marked by atmospheric intensity. With her works she creates unique worlds weaved through the language of dreaming. Mala Kline won a series of major Slovenian awards for her choreographic works, including the Golden Bird Award (2005), Triton Award (2005, 2013), Gibanica audience award (2013, 2023) the Ksenija Hribar Award for choreography (2013) and the Ksenija Hribar Award for theory (2021) among others. She is the author of two books, Capfico: Writings From the Belly of the Whale published by Capfico/Madrid, and Theaters of Potential: Between Ethics and Politics published by Maska/Ljubljana. In 2018, she founded ELIAS 2069 institute – a school, an art residency space, an ecological farm and an outdoor spa, located in a pristine natural resort deep in the wilderness of the southern Slovenia and dedicated to education and creation through dreaming.
Past Dates:
Antonia Baehr // 09.11.2022
Matthias Mohr // 23.11.2022
João Fiadeiro // 07.12.2022
Melanie Mohren & Bernhard Herbordt // 17.01.2023
Carolina Mendonça // 01.02.2023
Rolf Michenfelder // 08.02.2023
Ana Vujanović // 19.04.2023
Bojana Cvejić // 03.05.2023
Joanna Tischkau // 10.05.2023
Giulia Casartelli // 24.05.2023
Susanne Zaun & Judith Altmeyer // 14.06.2023
Florence Lam // 28.06.2023
Olivia Hyunsin Kim // 05.07.2023
ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS // 8.11.2023
JORGE ALENCAR & NETO MACHADO // 22.11.2023
RABIH MROUÉ // 6.12.2023
RUTH GEIERSBERGER // 13.12.2023
SWOOSH LIEU // 17.1.2024
ARKADI ZAIDES // 31.1.2024