Exposium

*ENGLISH BELOW*

Exposium je interdisciplinarni program u organizaciji udruge Kurziv (nakladnika Kulturpunkta) i predstavlja završno javno događanje međunarodnog projekta Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem. Kroz ovaj projekt pokrenut je niz kreativnih procesa posvećenih promišljanju, testiranju i produkciji “reparativnih” pristupa, odnosno pristupa koji kroz otvorenost za iznenađujuće i neočekivane ishode – potaknuti radošću i užitkom prije nego strahom ili strepnjom – traže načine za suočavanje s različitim sustavnim problemima koji opterećuju odnose u kulturi i društvu te odnose prema okolišu i budućnosti.

U trodnevnom programu Exposiuma, koji se održava u prostorima Pogona Jedinstvo i Akademije dramske umjetnosti (F22) te uz jezera Savica, u susretu s publikom, neposrednim okolišem, neljudskim i više-no-ljudskim bićima, pojavama i anomalijama pokušat ćemo domisliti kako iz sada-i-ovdje, obilježenog višestrukim i uzastopnim krizama koje nam ne pružaju puno razloga za optimizam, misliti bolje tada-i-tamo. 

Umjetnički dio Exposiuma uključuje ciklus Rizomatske geste, koji predstavlja radove Maje Bojanić, Hrvoslave Brkušić, Nadije Markiewicz i Fette Sans, četiriju umjetnica koje su uz kustosicu Leu Vene u produkciji Kurziva razvijale svoje odgovore na materijale i fokuse projekta u formi izvedbi, instalacija i performativne ekspedicije, te gostovanje izvedbenog predavanja Spolni odgoj II: Sposobnost redateljice Tjaše Črnigoj i ljubljanske udruge Maska. Kolektiv Zakole, koji je kroz rad na močvarnom području Varšave razvio niz metoda opservacije i povezivanja s okolišem, svoju će metodologiju pretočiti u eksperimentalnu šetnju jezerima na Savici. 

Razgovorni program otvara se uz okrugli stol posvećen metodama i strategijama suočavanja s i djelovanja usprkos problemima u kulturnom ekosustavu, nastavlja se uz dijeljenje umjetničkih metoda i praksi umjetnica Rizomatskih gesti te predstavljanje kolektivnih praksi usklađivanja s okolišem i regenerativnog aktivizma Zakole i njihovih suradnika, a završava uz razgovor s umjetnicama Spolnog odgoja II.

Program se odvija na engleskom jeziku, uz iznimku segmenta Spolni odgoj II: Sposobnost koji se održava na slovenskom jeziku uz engleske i hrvatske titlove.

RASPORED:

Četvrtak, 7.11. | Otvorenje Exposiuma | Pogon Jedinstvo (velika dvorana)

18.30h | Here-and-now of our cultural ecosystem – how do we cope, why do we persist and where do we strive? (okrugli stol)

• sudjeluju: Pia Brezavšček, Karla Crnčević, Nina Gojić, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Hana Sirovica

20.30h | Rhizomatic Gestures I

Nadia Markiewicz: Ballad of the Withering Rose (performans i instalacija)

Hrvoslava Brkušić: Veda Zagorac (radni naslov) (instalacija)

Fette Sans: I passed the stage of disappointment long ago (instalacija)

Petak, 8.11. | Pogon Jedinstvo

18h | Mala dvorana | Rhizomatic Gestures: Practices and Methods (razgovor) 

• sudjeluju: Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, Fette Sans, Lea Vene

19h | Mala dvorana | Swamp Gatherings (razgovor) 

• sudjeluju: članice i suradnice_i Zakole kolektiva

20.00h | Velika dvorana | Rhizomatic Gestures II

Fette Sans: I passed the stage of disappointment long ago (izvedba)

Subota, 9.11.

11h | Jezera Savica | Overflow (eksperimentalna šetnja)*

vodstvo: Zakole kolektiv

*broj polaznika je ograničen, obavezna prethodna prijava putem formulara.

14h  | Pogon Jedinstvo | Rhizomatic Gestures III

Maja Bojanić: HIC SVNT DRACONES, no actually mld (vođena audio ekspedicija zgradom Pogona i razgovor s umjetnicom)

20h | F22 | Zatvaranje Exposiuma | Spolni odgoj II: Sposobnost (izvedbeno predavanje)* 

– nakon izvedbe održava se razgovor u vodstvu Une Bauer

*ulaz je besplatan, uz obaveznu prijavu putem formulara.

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Kurziv zahvaljuje Pogonu – Zagrebačkom centru za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade i Akademiji dramske umjetnosti na suradnji u realizaciji programa.

Vizual potpisuje Maja Maar.

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ENGLISH:

Exposium is an interdisciplinary program organized by Kurziv (publisher of Kulturpunkt) and serves as the final public event of the international project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem. This project has launched a series of creative processes focused on exploring, testing, and producing “reparative” approaches. These approaches, open to surprising and unexpected outcomes—motivated by joy and pleasure rather than fear or anxiety—seek ways to address various systemic issues that burden relationships within culture and society, as well as our relations to the environment and the future.

The three-day Exposium program takes place at Pogon Jedinstvo, the Academy of Dramatic Arts (F22) and by the Savica Lakes. Through interactions with the audience, the immediate environment, non-human and more-than-human beings, phenomena, and anomalies, we will explore how to envision a better “then-and-there” from our “here-and-now,” a time marked by multiple, successive crises that offer little reason for optimism.

The artistic part of Exposium includes the Rhizomatic Gestures cycle, which features works by Maja Bojanić, Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, and Fette Sans. These four artists, along with curator Lea Vene, developed their responses to the project’s themes and materials in collaboration with Kurziv in the form of performances, installations, and a performative expedition. It also includes lecture-performance Sex Education II: Ability by director Tjaša Črnigoj, brought by association Maska from Ljubljana. The Zakole collective, which has developed various methods of observing and connecting with the environment through their work in Warsaw’s wetlands, will bring their methodology to Zagreb in an experimental walk around the Savica Lakes.

The discursive program opens with a round table focused on methods and strategies for addressing and acting despite challenges in the cultural ecosystem. It continues with the sharing of artistic methods and practices from the artists of Rhizomatic Gestures, presentations of collective practices of regenerative activism by the Zakole collective and their collaborators, and concludes with a conversation with the artists of Sex Education II.

The program will be held in English, except for the segment Sex Education II: Ability, which will be in Slovenian with English and Croatian subtitles.

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, November 7 | Exposium Opening | Pogon Jedinstvo (Big Hall)

18:30 | Here-and-now of our cultural ecosystem – how do we cope, why do we persist and where do we strive? (round table)

• participants: Pia Brezavšček, Karla Crnčević, Nina Gojić, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Hana Sirovica

20:30 | Rhizomatic Gestures I

Nadia Markiewicz: Ballad of the Withering Rose (performance and installation)
Hrvoslava Brkušić: Veda Zagorac (working title) (installation)
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago (installation)

Friday, November 8 | Pogon Jedinstvo

18:00 | Small Hall | Rhizomatic Gestures: Practices and Methods (artist talk)

• participants: Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, Fette Sans, Lea Vene

19:00 | Small Hall | Swamp Gatherings (conversation)

• participants: members and collaborators of the Zakole Collective

20:00 | Main Hall | Rhizomatic Gestures II

Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago (performance)

Saturday, November 9

11:00 | Savica Lakes | Overflow (experimental walk)*

• led by: Zakole Collective
  *registration required via form.

14:00 | Pogon Jedinstvo | Rhizomatic Gestures III

Maja Bojanić: HIC SVNT DRACONES, no actually mld
(guided audio expedition through Pogon building and conversation with the artist)

20:00 | F22 | Exposium Closing | Sex Education II: Ability (lecture-performance)*

• the performance will be followed by artist talk led by Una Bauer
  * entry is free of charge; registration is required via form.

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Kurziv extends its gratitude to Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth and the Academy of Dramatic Art for their support.

Design: Maja Maar

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Program Exposium je dio projekta Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem koji Kurziv provodi u partnerstvu s organizacijama Maska i Krytyka Polityczna uz potporu programa Kreativne Europe Europske unije. Program se realizira uz podršku Grada Zagreba, Zaklade Kultura nova, Ministarstva kulture i medija RH te Ureda za udruge Vlade Republike Hrvatske. Pogon – Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade i Akademija dramske umjetnosti pridruženi su partneri projekta.

Exposium is part of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for a New Cultural Ecosystem project, which Kurziv is implementing in partnership with Maska and Krytyka Polityczna, with support from the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The program is being carried out with the support of the City of Zagreb, Kultura Nova Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the Office for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Government of the Republic of Croatia. Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth and the Academy of Dramatic Art are associate partners of the project.