— Thursday, June 11
21:00 – 22:30 Oleg Tcherny : Blur Yes Shades Can Blur [2014/90′ : screening @ MM Centar, Savska 25]
Oleg Tcherny was born in 1971 in Minsk (Belarus). From 1993 to 1997, he studied Performance and New Media with Nan Hoover at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, then from 1997 to 1998 continued his studies in Tokyo. In 1999, Tcherny was assistant director to the filmmaker Daniel Schmid in Switzerland. In 2003 he joined the Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts where he participated in editing the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
Tcherny distorts the progression of images through a process of vertical editing. Shot in HD, his videos sound out the thickness of time, pushing the boundaries of visual, auditory, and conceptual abstraction. Space and relativity appear as common themes in Tcherny’s films. The ideas of Giorgio Agamben are a recurring reference and his philosophy shows us in several projects. He lives and works in Paris, Venice, and Princeton.
— Saturday, June 13
20:00 – 20:30 Angela Rawlings [performance @ Booksa, Martićeva 14d]
— Sunday, June 14
18:00 – 20:30 Marjana Krajač : VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE [dance performance @ Dom HDLU/Džamija, Trg žrtava fašizma 16]
New work for five dancers by a choreographer Marjana Krajač invites you on a journey of time and space, entering gradually in to the layers of it’s texture. Intensive, meditative and purifying experience of waching is forming specific elasticity of time and meaning.
In her last works, Marjana Krajač embarked on a complex mission of revoking the very substance of a dance medium, exposing its ontology and deconstructed historicity. This monumental durational work articulates the arrival of a historic modernism in to the dance medium, and how was dance, as we understand it today, shaped by that and in what way.
In such framework of artistic focus, Marjana Krajač and five dancers are asking relevant questions of metaphysical commitments and added meanings of the performative body.
Performance is accompanied by a booklet containing a text of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, titled “Moment of Dance”.
The work is rounded by the minimalist durational piano composition from 1959 of an American composer Dennis Johnson titled “November”. A composition was lost and not available over 50 years until the pianist R. Andrew Lee manage to reconstruct it and released it in 2013.
Marjana Krajač is choreographer and author of numerous works approaching choreography simultaneously as dance expertise, invested choreographic thinking, a deep understanding of the nature of a dance medium and how it communicates its relation to the art field in general. In 2014 her work was awarded with two relevant awards; Croatian Theatre Award for the outstanding choreographic achievement and Annual Award of the Croatian Dance Artists Association for the choreographic achievement of the year. Her texts had been published in New York’s “Movement Research Performance Journal”, Croatian Performing Arts Magazine “Frakcija” and Croatian journal for dance “Kretanja”. She graduated from State School for Contemporary Dance “Ana Maletić” in Zagreb, Academy of Performing Arts in Berlin and has also studied theology and religion sciences at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She worked for and with numerous regional and internationals venues, theaters and festivals and is currently based in Zagreb.
— Monday, June 15
20:00 – 21:30 David Grubbs : Records Ruin the Landscape [lecture]
John Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant-garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long-duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic music, free jazz, and free improvisation. How could these proudly evanescent performance practices have been adequately represented on an LP?
In their day, few of these works circulated in recorded form. By contrast, contemporary listeners can encounter this music not only through a flood of LP and CD releases of archival recordings but also in even greater volume through Internet file sharing and online resources. Present-day listeners are coming to know that era’s experimental music through the recorded artifacts of composers and musicians who largely disavowed recordings. In “Records Ruin the Landscape,” Grubbs surveys a musical landscape marked by altered listening practices.
David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he also teaches in the M.F.A. programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts and Creative Writing. As a musician, he has released twelve solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially released recordings. Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has appeared on recordings by the Red Krayola, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, and Matmos, among other artists. He is known for cross-disciplinary collaborations with the writers Susan Howe and Rick Moody and the visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Stephen Prina.
— Tuesday, June 16
21:00 David Grubbs & Andrea Belfi [concert @ Polukružna dvorana Teatra &TD, Savska 25]