Author of the cover photo: Šime Radovčić 1969-1970. / Source: Zagreb City Museum
ACTION FOR THE MARKET
The Remetinečka Square Action, in which the citizens of New Zagreb participate together with artists and art organizations and the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center, is a collection of cultural events that, through participatory programs, address the issue of public space and the problem of the disappearance of the square in Remetinečki gaj.
BADco., Bacači sjenki, Ivan Lušičić Liik, Radio Kanzas, Studio Artless and UIII will present their programs created in collaboration between artists and citizens.
SCHEDULE:
11. 9. 2020. FRIDAY
7 pm – Studio Artless , opening of the exhibition Invisible City and Mythical Narratives // Vladimir Bužančić Gallery
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Exploring hidden urban narratives of the neighborhood in Remetinečki gaj
Places are only partial and retold histories of pasts that others have robbed of their legibility, accumulated times that can be unfolded, only resembling backup stories, remaining in a state of rebus, and finally symbolizations embedded in the pain or pleasure of the body.
Michel de Certeau (The Invention of Everyday Life, MD Publishing House, 2003)
Michel de Certeau and Luce Giard in The Practice of Everyday Life say that neighborhoods also shape invisible histories of walking, dressing, living, cooking. Invisible histories reveal different memories that no longer have their own space: family traditions and timeless events, childhood memories. This is how urban narratives “work”. They complement the visible city with the “invisible cities” that Italo Calvino wrote about. Using a vocabulary of objects and well-known words, narratives create other dimensions, which can be fantastic, careless, frightening and accurate. They make the city “convincing”, they open up “journeys”. They are the keys to the city and lead us towards the “mythical”.
The project deals with the history and present of the first planned settlement in Novi Zagreb, Remetinečki gaj. Created after World War II on the “edge of the city”, it is particularly interesting due to its high-quality comprehensive urban design that maintains the optimal distance between individual buildings, with planned green areas and accompanying facilities to “meet” the needs of its residents (municipality, health center, police station, kindergarten, cultural center, shops).
We are particularly interested in the central square, Trg Narodne zaštite , where the Remetinec municipality building was built in 1955. It was the first building in the settlement and one of the first public buildings in Novi Zagreb.
In the building, on the western part of the ground floor, there was a restaurant called Galeb with a terrace, which was used by the employees of the People’s Committee and the residents of the settlement. The restaurant had the first television in the settlement, and the citizens gathered around it. The restaurant also had a dance floor and an outdoor terrace.
In front of the building there was a fountain , visible in a photograph from the 1960s. The informants recall that the first fountain was “the color of blue galica, with slightly sloping edges and three small fountains”. Later, this fountain was removed and a new one was built, with vertical edges, positioned closer to the City Hall building, which was designed by Vladimir Turina (1957 and 1958), in collaboration with Boris Magaš. The City Hall building housed the first cinema hall in New Zagreb. It had 500 seats and was opened in 1963. year. The building housed the Remetinec National University, and since 1977, the building has housed the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center.
Today, the municipal building houses the VI. Police Station, which is a popular destination for residents of the entire New Zagreb. The paved surface of the square was asphalted and turned into a parking lot and a landfill for confiscated vehicles. All urban equipment was removed, which caused the square to lose its formal and functional role as a gathering place for residents and visitors of Remetinečki gaj, and thus the original urban design of the square and the entire settlement, authored by architect Branko Berc, was largely devastated.
With the art project Invisible City and Mythical Narratives/Action for the Square, we will recall the origins of the settlement and the oldest square across the Sava River, in the context of which we wish to reflect on lost urban and social values, explore the experiences of the everyday life of its inhabitants today, and initiate a discussion on a more adequate use of the square and the police station building with the aim of improving the quality of life in the Remetinečki gaj settlement.
The exhibition will feature a contextually placed participatory work composed of art works and written notes of poetic narratives by residents of Remetinec, as well as two jointly performed works created at art workshops held in July 2020. Stories about Mrs. Futa Bari, dressed from head to toe in red, the dusty projector of the former only cinema in Novi Zagreb, the unfortunate missing fountain, the colorful dance ensemble, the mythical restaurant Galeb, about trampled cherry trees and gardens, prison birds… and a poster for the play “Cut in the Sky” by Željko Zorica from 1984, along with fragments of the memories of the interlocutors, archival photographs and documentary footage, make the “invisible city” visible to some new, interested residents. As part of the project, a guided walk with musical accompaniment will be held.
Collaborators on the project:
Author and producer: Ana Janjatović-Zorica, sociologist
Advisors: Anita Zlomislić, art historian and director of the Vladimir Bužančić Gallery
Nikola Iskra, young Croatian storyteller
Project participant coordinator: Marko Milovac
Expert associate at the art workshop: Vesna Šantak, academic painter-graphic artist
Participants of the art workshop: Vlatka, Iva, L., Ana, Ljubica, Ljiljana, Goga, Nena, Anđa, Petar who wish to be signed only with their personal names
Participants in the discussion on the urban planning of the National Protection Square and the Remetinec settlement: Željko Jamičić, long-time resident of Remetinec, Anita Zlomislić, art historian and head of the Vladimir Bužančić Gallery, Mladen Plazibat, president of the Remetinec Local Committee, Nebojša Aleksić, member of the Remetinec Local Committee, Gordana Herceg, long-time resident of Remetinec, Katarina Jovanović, resident of Jaruščica, Željka Jelavić, museum advisor at the Ethnographic Museum and resident of Novi Zagreb, Sonja Leboš, cultural anthropologist and other citizens
Filming and video editing: Viktor Krasnić
Text read by: Dubravko Sidor, actor
Technical exhibition setup: Tomislav Kušević
PR: Igor Jurilj, expert associate for promotion, marketing and public relations at the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center
Preparation for printing: Vedran Grladinović
Guided walk around the National Protection Square: Kruno Bakota, actor and Igor Pavlica, musician
We would like to thank Željko Jamičić, Vladimir Jug, Mladen Plazibat, Božica and Slavko Trnka, Ljubica Pulišelić Čarić, Petar Somek, Dina Pavić, the participants of the art workshop and discussion, and Matea Roščić and Tatjana Jerković Musulin for their help.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
12. 9. 2020. SATURDAY
5 pm – Shadow Casters , event “The Battle for Zagreb Begins in Remetinec” // plato CKNZg
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As part of a two-year project to strengthen civil-public partnerships, the Domino Shadow Casters are setting up a mobile city interpretation center in front of the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center in Remetinec on Saturday, September 5. This research in the form of an “open office” will last at several locations in that part of the city until September 12, when the Shadow Casters will perform, together with the citizens of the city of Zagreb, the performance “The Battle for Zagreb Begins in Remetinec” as part of the Action for the Square.
One of the tasks of this mobile interpretive city center is to map the interest groups that should sit down at the table and talk in an attempt to pull the city out of decades of recession and decline. This decadence of the city of Zagreb and the decades-long devastation or selective “tasting” of all communal spaces but also the entire city’s infrastructure culminated in the corona pandemic, a devastating earthquake and unexpected floods that brought all these problems of the city even more to light. Or as the old proverb says: it does not snow and cover the hill, but rather that every beast shows its trail. Following the meaning of this folk wisdom, the Shadow Casters want to map and define, together with the citizens, those interest groups that want and must or should have a place at the table where the future renewal of the city, the future repair and improvement of its infrastructure, and its development and changes for the benefit of all, will be planned and decided.
In addition to citizens of the city of Zagreb (and not only from Remetinec and its surroundings), this research will include intermedia and performance artists, sociologists, economists, film and theater directors, choreographers and dancers, and art historians Boris Bakal, Marija Georgiev, Leo Vukelić, Sandra Uskoković, Nikolina Komljenović, Tatjana Tihomirović, Veno Mušinović and others.
Shadow Casters is a multi-awarded and acclaimed international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creativity, and reflection on intermedia arts, which successfully and effortlessly interweaves international collaboration, film, theater performances, urban intermedia projects, activism, pedagogical work, video art, and selection practice into a holistic artistic endeavor.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
19:00 – BADco ., play The Work of Panic // in front of the University Hospital in Blato
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Location: University Hospital, Blato
[Admission to the performances is free. Please confirm your attendance at produkcija@badco.hr. You will receive arrival instructions with your confirmation.]
The work of panic is an event on the green hills of Blato in Remetinec, which were created by the dumping of construction waste. The space is bordered by a highway, a power line, an unfinished hospital, the Sava embankment, and gravel pits next to which a failed real estate project for a golf course is located. This infrastructural space remains unfathomable to us despite the picturesqueness of the technological landscape that has been appropriated by nature. It is an inversion of the human-scale spaces in which we inhabit every day. Its identity is the non-there of everyday spaces. Just as the identity of everyday spaces is this space of displacement of people, electricity, water, and materials.
Panic work is an event created in the suspended time of the pandemic. A time of sudden end and uncertain new beginning. However, in order for something to end and a new one to begin, for our everyday life to become different, change must first be possible in the infrastructural space. On that terrain, the contours are drawn and the graves of what cannot and what can possibly be created are excavated.
The work of panic is the last part of the trilogy that began with the play Excavation performed in 2018 at the house of architect Vjenceslav Richter, and continued with the play rePublik in the orchestra, which premiered at HNK Ivan pl. Zajc in October 2019 in Rijeka. The trilogy thematizes the connections between work, utopia and confrontation with impossibilities at the time of the threat of climate catastrophe.
Performed by: Nataša Antulov, Ana Marija Brđanović, Ema Crnić, Ana Kreitmeyer, Marta Krešić, Nikolina Pristaš, Kalliopi Siganou, Aleksandra Stojaković Olenjuk, Evita Tsakalaki
Orchestra: Zagreb ZET Orchestra
Director: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Choreography: Nikolina Pristaš in collaboration with Ana Kreitmeyer, Marta Krešić, Evita Tsakalaki, Kalliopi Siganou and Emma Crnić
Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec, Tomislav Medak, Nataša Antulov
Text: Goran Ferčec
Music: Gordan Tudor
Costume: Silvio Vujičić, The motifs on the men’s suits are deconstructed prints of the artwork “Free Drawing” from 1980 by Vjenceslav Richter
Lighting: Goran Petercol
Design and drawings: Siniša Ilić
Collaborator in reading space: Leo Modrčin
Translation: Žarko Cvejić
Producer: Lovro Japundžić
Public Relations: Zrinka Šamija
Drone piloting and aerial photography: Goran Skelac and Vatroslav Španiček
Recording and audio editing of the text: Saša Predovan
Dog: Lion
Thank you: Davorka Begović, Vesna Meštrić, Alan Vukelić, Eurokaz and the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc.
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21:00 – UIII , video installation How Community is Created // in front of CKNZg
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Today’s National Protection Square in Remetinec was created in the 1960s, at a time when Zagreb was undergoing intense change, and on the southern banks of the Sava a new socialist city was rapidly growing, which we still call “new” today, more than half a century later – New Zagreb. However, it has not been new for a long time, and requires renovation, maintenance and fresh reflections on its urbanity, while still seeking its functionality and sober beauty. The square, which long-time residents of Remetinec remember as a vibrant meeting place and urban interaction, has today been reduced to a parking lot and even a car park. The element of water that once further enriched the space has disappeared. The city of Zagreb, which lies on a rich fertile area, has not yet learned to use this wealth to its full potential. The square is a key place of urban interaction in the city. It enables all those miniatures of urban life that make a city an attractive place to live: children’s play and chit-chat, celebrations and demonstrations, a leisurely walk with the help of a stick and a rest on a comfortable bench overlooking lush greenery and measured architecture, encounters, adolescent socializing, glances, touches, chance acquaintances that can grow into lasting friendships… An urban community is created on the square. Urban planning should enable urban interaction. Currently, planning that is impossible only deepens the space of subjective nostalgia for better times. However, as
community is emerging today, is the key question posed by the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, and it tries to answer the same with an intermediate installation, i.e. an extended film, which, like the area of the People’s Protection Square in the socialist city, was created in the 1960s. It was not for nothing that Stan Vanderbeek wrote in 1966 that extended film is a kind of extended reality, a medium that establishes connections between various forms of art, but also direct connections between art and life.
The choreography of the square with the help of extended film will thus function through reference fields that will point to the domestic heritage of urban planning and the synthesis of life and art.
(Vjenceslav Richter), the intensity of the 1960s as the beginning of a destructive capital age that destroys life on earth in order to conquer space, as well as attempts at organized resistance
to the hegemony of the West (found footage from the rich archive of NASA and the Non-Aligned Movement), but also to the complexity of creating a community in the dissonance of identity politics (Derek Jarman).
The intermedia installation or extended film will also include animations created within the framework of the workshop formats that were conducted in July with children, residents of Novi Zagreb, as part of the SUKULTURA project. The poetics of children’s drawings presented through stop-animation procedures that the children mastered, while also learning about analog planning techniques.
of the city, as well as the collage animation techniques that artist Ivana Pipal transformed into meditative visual content, will take center stage in the imaginary made up of
system of diverse operational moving images (Harun Farocki), on surfaces that we want to reshape into a square, an urban place where a community is created, where
The CITY survives.
Concept: Sonja Leboš
Animation workshops (concept and performance): Sonja Leboš, Stella Leboš, Ivana Pipal
Editing and animation: Ivana Pipal
Scenography: Stella Leboš
Expert technical support: Ivan Marušić-Klif
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13. 9. 2020. SUNDAY
19:00 – BADco ., play The Work of Panic // in front of the University Hospital in Blato
18. 9. 2020. FRIDAY
18:00 – Point on I, spatial installation Tree of Memories // plato CKNZg
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TREE OF MEMORIES – an exhibition that, through the objects exhibited by our participants on the tree of memories, traces how far our memories reach. How the memories of our ancestors can shape our consciousness today. The exhibition follows personal stories about past times, loneliness and fear, laughter and tears. In this way, we try to stimulate collective memory and allow the memories of former generations to influence the present. It is precisely in this diversity of generations that the essence of all people lies. The tree is the union of all memories because it symbolically hides superhuman wisdom and knowledge.
Authors of the exhibition: Iva Srnec, Melita Omeragić, Petra Popović
Woodworking: Ivica Popović
Video editing and direction: Ana Miljanić
Composer: Sunčica Dopulić
Participants Whose Memories and Objects We Used: Eduard Pešun, Ivka Senčar, Zlata Strunje, Vera Filipović, Lidija Vrban, Ljiljana Aleksić-Ćuk, Snježana Kovačević, Snježana Đidara, Adelina Jug, Marica Gotovac
WHAT IS THE POLYGON PROJECT?
The Poligon project is part of the artistic program of a much larger project – SuKulture.
With the SuKultura project, we aim to improve the knowledge and skills of participants from artistic organizations, civil society organizations and cultural institutions, which will enable them to participate in an informed and qualified manner in the newly formed participatory program body for culture that would operate in the municipality of Novi Zagreb at the Travno Cultural Center and the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center. The aim of establishing the Council is to strengthen civil-public partnership and, through its activities, to more easily and better identify local needs in culture. We hope to create the prerequisites for the systematic monitoring of planned expenditures and the implementation of plans achieved through public-civil partnership in culture through the project, and to work on indicating the need for the introduction of program codes/codes for participatory practices in the chart of accounts and budget classification in the treasury of the City of Zagreb.
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19:00 – Jazz point Novi Zagreb , Filip Pavić Quartet Terra Incognita concert // plato CKNZg
21:00 – Ivan Lušičić Liik and Matija Vojvodić, audio-visual performance Hatch filed // in front of CKNZg
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Hatch field is the third iteration of the Hatch performance performed by composer Matija Vojvodić and visual artist Ivan Lušičić Liik. As in previous collaborations, guided by the given and found state of the space, we will try, at least for a short time, to change the observer’s experience of that space using sound and light as materials and tools for upgrading and adapting the existing space. The work is divided into 3 parts: Introduction, Topic and End. This is the first time that Hatch is performed outdoors, so in this performance we are referring to the chronology of the origin, development and current situation in Novi Zagreb. This is how we define the position of the observer, whose perspective depends on the place from which he observes the presented work, so from act to act he is physically pulled in and out of the performance itself.
Ivan Lušičić Liik is a fugitive architect, lighting designer and applied artist in the field of new media. In the background of his works, one can notice the remains (influences and elements) of formal education from the studies of architecture and theatrical lighting design, which then
Matija Vojvodic is a musician, music producer and sound designer who enjoys expressing himself in a wide range of artistic and commercial projects. In his compositions, Vojvodic creates a palette of sounds that can be sensed by influences from classical minimalism, ethno and electronic music. In his works, he reflects on the relationship between sound and room.
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19. 9. 2020. SATURDAY
10 – 13:00 – Studio Artless , walk as part of the Invisible City and Mythical Narratives program
During the entire period, Radio Kansas conducts the ” Spy School” program with members of the Savski Gaj Scout Detachment.
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Have you ever wanted to be a spy for a few days? Have you ever wondered what we could learn from them?
In 2013, theatre director Tea Tupajić began working on a project that explores the working methods of secret service agents. The Spy School workshop is based on the methods and strategies of the art of interpersonal interaction, which the director has learned through years of research and practice with fellow agents. During the two-day workshop, you will gain insight not only into the range of skills that intelligence officers use in their daily work, but also into the original exercises used in their training centers. Most of the exercises take place in public space. Through a series of dynamic, exciting tasks and challenges, you will have the opportunity to try out the role of a spy and learn how their knowledge can be applied in everyday life – in communication, building relationships in a group, situations that require confidence, improvisation, contact with strangers, getting to know and exploring public space, etc. [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
** Admission to all events is free!
Please confirm your attendance at the BADco. show at produkcija@badco.hr. You will receive arrival instructions with your confirmation.
CULTURE FOR EVERYONE!
10.7.2020. FRIDAY
21:30 EUROKAZ – Branko Brezovec: Five Seasons // Travno nuclear shelter, Božidara Magovca 70
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The play FIVE SEASONS is an ambient creation as part of the SuKultura project, a collage, or rather an accumulation of excessively disoriented literary excerpts, sentences, contemporary syntagmas, famous silences that seem to hint at a persistent affiliation with some sense. This sense could be gathered, only as a shadow of its text, around an interview with Sanja Nikčević, a respected theatrologist and professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, which she gave to Hrvatski slovo in February of this year under the title The Theater Should Again Be a Place of the Good, the Beautiful, and the Holy. The play shadowily follows this order from Professor Nikčević, it does not resist it at all, and it covers all directions of deviation with a gentle concern for Absolute Reality, a discourse on the whole as dictated (again, an order) by, say, Walt Whitman. The theatre in this play is good because it never encounters the evil of the good, not to say the sin of being, but it acknowledges sad happiness, Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern’s: happy that we are not too happy. It is also beautiful because it touches on the Barthesian neutral and because it strives for the dizzying nihilism of dispersion, and its cohesive cover-ups. And, finally, it is also sacred because all of director Brezovac’s plays are consecrated, ritualized, God forbid, as metaphysical comedies, only this time they have cut through the unrest that does not disturb.
Dramaturgy & stage production: Branko Brezovec Author collaboration: Suzana Brezovec, Željko Kanceljak, Tomislav Maglečić, Ivan Marušić Klif, Branko pl. Puceković
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11.7.2020. SATURDAY
DOMINO – Community Play
18:30 Josipa Bubaš and Neva Lukić : Mamutica – spaces of the future // plato Mamutice
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Starting from the utopian socialist architecture of Mamutica and texts by writers such as A. Huxley, T. Moore and G. Orwell, this time the workshop will take participants on a research journey of imagining, feeling and telling stories about utopian-dystopian spaces, the so-called “spaces of the future”, their possible functions as well as the patterns of behavior that have arisen in them. As before, the workshop will connect literary and performance language, whereby participants, with the mentorship of the leaders, will create their own text, stage movement and choreography, developing their writing, dance-stage and storytelling skills.
The idea of a “building-city”, a united community that meets all human needs, is often neglected in contemporary urban planning. However, the same idea can too easily turn into a dystopian, unison unit with its own repressive mechanisms, deny humanity and individuality, and become its own opposite. The idea of the workshop is to play with that ambivalent position, projections of possible future problems through a simultaneous commentary on the current situation. In the current situation, we refer, of course, to the idea of socialist architecture that among other co-residents of a certain neighborhood should be mutually supportive, and that a community should be formed within a certain urban context. Does this idea live on today and in what way are the residents of Mamutica connected to each other? Do they feel a sense of belonging to that architectural edifice and is there a certain sense of developed and practiced solidarity? How does this idea work today in a completely different political-social context, a developing capitalist society? Also, the corona crisis has brought even greater mutual alienation, and a truly realistic science fiction film scenario, so workshop participants will explore this aspect through their own performance and literary engagement.
We explore urban space, its history and the possibilities of the contemporary context, and in doing so, we use the spatial potential and functions of specific locations – the premises of KUC Travno, a library, a pharmacy, a bank, a café, a square, a garage, a nuclear shelter. The locations were explored through direct relationships with the residents and employees who work inside the building (for example, employees of KUC Travno) – through interviews, public experiential improvisations with the body, and recording the work process itself through video and audio. The recordings of the process are also used in the final presentation of the work. The final presentation itself includes solo pieces
and a group performance – dystopian stories and movements inspired by the location, taking place on the Mamutice plateau.
Authors: Josipa Bubaš and Neva Lukić in collaboration with Vlasta Delimar and Tomislav Čuveljak. The performance is part of the Community Performance.
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19:00 Vedrana Klepica : Keinberg // KUC Travno stage
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Keinberg is a research performance project that deals with the moral and economic breakdown of a small industrial community in an unnamed location in Europe.
The project was initially focused on the real cases of several cities, especially focusing on one specific place in the very north of Sweden, where the survival of the city community was called into question through the intensive exploitation of an iron ore mine, because the mine threatened to collapse the city into the ground. Due to such a situation, the company that manages the mine was forced to move the entire town and population to another position. There are more and more similar examples of workers’ towns in the extinction and collapse of industry throughout Europe, and they are a good political and class thermometer of a system that has been changing naturally for decades, but also endangers an entire group of workers and often creates urban poverty.
The project plans to explore, through performative and visual language, the recurring principles of late capitalism in which the very systems that are the basis for building an economic community, through insufficient control, become the reasons for its disintegration. What happens when the only industry that sustains a city/community is simultaneously responsible for its disappearance? What happens psychologically and sociologically to that community?
Text and direction: Vedrana Klepica
Cast: Boris Barukčić, Hrvojka Begović, Natasa Kopec, Pavle Vrkljan
Music: Hrvoje Nikšić
Lighting: Saša Fistrić
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19:30 Drum’n Bijes & Avokado Association // Mamutice Plateau
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20:30 POINT ON I – Iva Srnec Hamer: Poligon // KUC Travno stage
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Author of the text: Beatrica Kurbel
Based on the motifs of Miroslav Krleža’s novels The Battle of Bistrica Lesna and Three Home Guards.
Directed by: Iva Srnec Hamer
Scenography: Melita Omeragić, Petra Popović, Ivica Popović
Costumes: Ana Trišler
Music: Sunčica Dropulić
Assistant director: Tea Kržak
Production: Dotka na I
Starring: Igor Baksa, Igor Hamer, Lovro Ivanković, Antonia Šašo
Choir: Tonka Matejaš, Iva Srnec Hamer
Voices: Ljiljana Aleksić-Ćuk, Ivo Kezić, Eduard Pešun, Ivka Senčar
Poligon is a theatre project based on the dramatisation of the novels Battle of Bistrica Lesna and Three Home Guards in combination with selected fragments from Miroslav Kreža’s diary entries. Given that it is a dramatisation of the aforementioned Krleža novels based only on motifs, the constructed story problematises war and its consequences as a social phenomenon from the perspective of those who are forced to belong to it, without referring to any specific war from our history. By depicting war as a common place, Poligon problematises its meaning, patriotism, military hierarchy and civic duty in extreme war circumstances. What does it mean to belong to a military order? Is there an individual opinion within it or only a collective one? How do war and patriotism affect identity? Who are comrades and who are leaders, and who should be trusted in key moments that force one to choose between one’s own life and the preservation of the country they are fighting for? Poligon deals with these questions from the perspective of four characters within a single day in which the remains of the microworlds to which they belonged could disappear.
An important part of this microworld is the documentary part of the play, which is accompanied by an exhibition called Polygon of Memories, where through objects that associate them with wartime or are part of their family history, we give personal stories about those times, loneliness and fear through wars, in this way we try to create a collective memory and allow the memories of former generations to influence the present, and observe how much these memories are lost through members of the youngest generations. It is precisely in this diversity of generations that the interestingness of the exhibition lies, which can be prepared for transport and touring. [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
12.7.2020. SUNDAY
19:00 TRIKO CIRKUS THEATER – Iva Peter Dragan & Marija Antić: Tenants in the mammoth // scena KUC Travno
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If Mammutica could speak, here’s what she would say:
If it weren’t for those windows and balconies, someone might describe me as a stiff, immobile, and even sleepy extra-large beauty, but my windows, like mirrors of the soul, give a subtle hint of the abundance of what’s going on inside me. Since people live inside me (plus the animals and plants that go with them) 24/7, from 0 to 99, abundance is perhaps too mild a word for what I experience on an average day with these people who live one above the other, then walk on each other’s heads left, right, diagonally, in all directions, and the partition walls separate them elbow from elbow, thigh from thigh, thumb from thumb. On the handrails of my staircases, they arrange their palm prints like layers on a cake while in the elevators they smooth their tresses, touch up their make-up, shoulder to shoulder, rising up into my airy heights. I watch them as they cross paths on the plateaus and green lawns, and as their tracks sometimes coincide, sometimes decisively diverge. At my place, you can also experience various balcony loves (of the horizontal type), window scouts (always the same pairs of eyes), hallway eavesdropping (no, my walls don’t have ears), stair races (a record eight stairs were jumped without falling), regular coffees and chats under the plateau’s parasols, very well-attended chess games, bocce games, screams in the parks, dog adventures… there’s too much to list. Anyway, watch the show that begins – everything will be clear to you.
Directed by: Iva Peter Dragan
Concept/dramaturgy: Marija Antić
Lighting design: Milan Kovačević
Costume design/scenography/music selection: group
Performed by: Ante Korlat, Danijela Krpan, Daria Ćurkož, Filip Gottstein, Ivan Kvesić, Ivana Grubišić, Lana Krstulović, Martin Petrinović, Matija Ivezić, Nataša Jandrlić, Nina Kodrić Gottstein [/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
21:00 ARKTIK Institute for the Future – Irena Boćkai, Vilim Matula and Vesna Mačković : Breathing the neighborhood // scene KUC Travno
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The performance is the product of a theater workshop where participants and facilitators explored how the “neighborhood breathes” at various locations (inside and outside) of New Zagreb neighborhoods. The performance speaks about the need to strengthen neighborhood unity, and it was the neighborhoods of New Zagreb that served as inspiration and scenography for the participants’ personal stories with an emphasis on current topics: Breathing; Neighborhood; Corona Covid-19; Earthquake; Zagreb; Zapruđe (and other neighborhoods of New Zagreb) after corona, utopia and dystopia; economic and climate catastrophe or an opportunity to change society and the way we relate to nature and natural resources.
During the workshops, theatrical-performative tasks were practiced using the improvisation method, both individually and in groups, while learning to create sound images on these themes, textual content, movement, scenography and props. Recyclable and/or waste materials served as props and sound producers used in the performance.
Artistic director: Vesna Mačković
Workshop leaders and co-authors of the play: Irena Boćkai and Vilim Matula
Performed by: Suzana Čuljak, Nataša Jurišić, Jelena Kalaica, Ante Korlat, Ljuba Lozančić, Sven Šimunović, Mirna Varga, Tatjana Vlašić, Pavel Zrnić[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
Admission to all events is free!
Due to epidemiological measures, please reserve your place in time by emailing projektsukultura@gmail.com.
Panel / SuKultura – Participatory Governance in Culture
What is participatory governance in culture, what is the importance of civil-public partnership and how can we make participatory governance sustainable? The Domino Association and partners are organizing a panel on the topic of participatory governance in culture on Tuesday, June 30 at 2 pm at KUC Travno.
We will discuss the concept of participatory governance, present examples of good practice – such as our SuKultura Council – and discuss the potential for advocating for this good practice.
The SuKultura Council is a new model of program council that promotes participatory management in culture, and operates at the cultural centers in Novi Zagreb. The council considers the needs of the local community and, based on them, considers, selects and proposes part of the annual cultural, artistic and educational program. One of the important activities of the SuKultura project is advocating for the introduction of the category of participatory management in the financing of public needs in culture of the City of Zagreb, which would provide similar projects with more concrete support and increase the possibility of implementation.
The panel includes:
Dea Vidović – Kultura Nova Foundation
Anita Zlomislić – New Zagreb Cultural Center
Vera Šimić Jajčinović – City Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb
Representative of the Ministry of Culture (TBC)
Moderated by: Karla Pudar – Domino
Call for applications for artistic, educational and discursive programs in 2021
The SuKultura Council invites all interested citizens, artists, cultural workers, art and civil society organizations, as well as informal groups and initiatives to apply for artistic, educational and discursive programs in the field of contemporary art. The program will be implemented in 2021 at the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center, the Travno Cultural Center, at locations in Novi Zagreb and beyond, in cooperation with civil society organizations, cultural institutions and representatives of the local community. Accepted programs will be submitted to tenders for funding from the budget for public needs in culture of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture for 2021.
Applications must be submitted in digital form by 19. June 2020 to: projektsukultura@gmail.com
The SuKultura Council will consider and evaluate applications according to the following criteria and guidelines:
a) ENGAGEMENT – we invite programs that critically review dominant social and cultural-artistic paradigms, and through cultural content encourage social changes within the artistic, cultural, ethical, ideological, economic and/or political environment. We are interested in programs that address the cultural and social problems of the community in a contemporary way, inviting citizens to interactive, inclusive and participatory involvement in creative processes.
b) INNOVATIVE AND RESEARCH APPROACH – we invite programs that use multidisciplinary and experimental procedures, new technologies and connect contemporary artistic practices with other fields.
c) CRITICALITY – we invite programs that question dominant social and cultural-artistic paradigms and develop a critical approach to socio-political reality.
Other guidelines:
Feasibility of the program – the program must be feasible within the specified timeframe;
Technical feasibility – assessment of the technical needs for the implementation of the project (as detailed as possible elaboration of spatial requirements and necessary equipment).
APPLICATION MUST CONTAIN:
1/ description of the program with performance, technical description and supporting materials;
2/ CV with contact details;
3/ a statement whether the program has been submitted to any other competition;
4/ indicative cost estimate.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The SuKultura Council will consider and select applications by July 19, 2020, after which the selected applications will be published on the SuKultura website, the Novi Zagreb Cultural Center , KUC Travno , and on the Council’s Facebook page.
SuKultura Council established
We have taken a step forward towards a more inclusive cultural offer and management in culture in Novi Zagreb. After several months of educational workshops, meetings, and a survey on the cultural needs of the local community, we founded the SuKultura Council in December 2019. The councilors are preparing the first competition, so it is time to introduce ourselves to the public.
The SuKultura Council is a new model of program council that promotes participatory governance in culture. It has 7 members – 2 from cultural centers and 5 from art organizations. They are: Ana Janjatović-Zorica, Zdravko Popović, Matija Prica, Azra Svedružić, Klara Šimunović, Andro Vladušić and Anita Zlomislić. The SuKultura Council considers the needs of the local community and, based on them, considers, selects and proposes part of the annual cultural, artistic and educational program. The program will be implemented in cultural centers, at locations in Novi Zagreb and beyond, in cooperation with civil society organizations, cultural institutions and representatives of the local community.
As part of the SuKultura project, a survey entitled Cultural Offer in Novi Zagreb was conducted, which was answered by 35 civil society organizations and 435 citizens. The results of the survey show that citizens are not familiar with how they can participate in the selection of cultural programs and in the use of center space. The data obtained show that existing cultural programs should be directed more towards meeting the needs and interests of the local community. Respondents stated that 3 types of programs best meet the needs of the community: workshops, outdoor events, and theater performances. Most of those surveyed showed interest in volunteering to participate in defining the annual cultural program in cultural centers in the Novi Zagreb area.
The Council sees participatory governance in culture as a process of joint decision-making, or sharing of responsibilities in governance, between stakeholders participating in a particular cultural policy, project or initiative. This includes public institutions, public cultural institutions, civil society organizations, informal civic initiatives and the wider citizenry.
Educational activities
Through the SuKultura project, since its inception in late October 2018, a series of educational activities have been carried out to strengthen the knowledge and skills of participants, including:
- Informative and educational workshop on the organization of cultural and artistic content in an institutional environment, from programming to production. (15. 2. 2019.)
- Educational workshop on participatory online systems and applications for project management. (7. and 8. 2. 2019.)
- Educational workshop on general project management and implementation (21 and 22 February 2019)
- Let’s solve it – Educational on the process and techniques of negotiation with the basics of mediation (February 20, 2019 and May 20, 2019)
- Educational workshop on monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the project plan. (5. 3. 2019.)
- Informative and educational workshop on the programming of the art program with an emphasis on engaged community art and participatory art practices and artivism. (14. 3. 2019)
- Workshop on defining the areas of activity and goals of the SuKultura Council in NZg (March 26, 2019)
- Advocacy in the media – Educational workshop on public advocacy and working in coalitions and educational workshop on using the media to communicate local needs. (2. – 3. 4. 2019.)
- Workshop on knowledge and skills relevant to leading participatory meetings and workshops (5-6. 6. 2019.)
- Workshop on the method, dynamics and scope of participatory decision-making (2. 9. 2019.)
- Workshop on medium-term planning for the development of mechanisms for public-civil partnership through participatory decision-making (September 3 and 4, 2019)
- Informational workshop on strategic financial planning (27. 12. 2019.)
- Inclusive communication strategy preparation workshop (February 17 and 18, 2020)