Symposium “Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion”, 21.-24.03.2013 in Zagreb, Croatia
BADco. invites you to the symposium and artistic programme organized in partnership with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA and the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb.
“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is a proposal to examine relations between the present-day modalities of time and the production of forms of life. The symposium will bring together a number of prominent international scholars and artists to share their thoughts on how to critically address the ways time conditions labor, affect and values, and how this then gets reflected in performance and media. The rise of new precarious forms of work and flexible organization of working time, as well as changes in the content and the nature of work, lead to a corresponding search for balance among the various forms of social time. “Time-scarcity” therefore becomes a relevant topic not only from a social or biological perspective, but also as a dramaturgical and performative problem. Having developed in the 20th century in connection with the principles of Fordism and Taylorism (endless motion, speed of execution, oscillation between order and chaos, the regulated and the coincidental), the development of contemporary performance, especially dance, over the last two decades has reflected the deep changes brought about by post-Fordist modes of labour (cognitive and affective virtuosity, multi-layered temporality, proximity, collaboration processes, openness of work, etc.). In this sense, different choreographic practices should not be understood only as aesthetic practices, but also as wider social processes of distributing bodies in time and space. Simultaneously, the pervasive erosion of differences between film, television, and computers and linked temporal experiences of technologies of work, travel, communication, and vision results in new ideologies of speed and compression, which opens new possibilities to rethink elaborative slowness and strategies of recapitulation in performance.
Within the scope of this exploration and in the programme of the symposium you’ll be able to hear presentations and talks, attend book presentations, see performances and a film screening by Sean Cubitt, Marie-Luise Angerer, Benjamin Noys, Stephen Zepke, Bojan Djordjev, Maska Seminar, Nik Wakefield, TkH – Walking Theory, Karin Harrasser, Giles Brokensha, Marjana Krajac, Franck Leibovici, Saska Rakef, Nicolas Rey and BADco.
All events are going to be in English.
For detailed symposium and artistic programme schedule see: http://badco.hr/2013/03/10/symposium_broken_performances/
The attendant artistic program is organized in collaboration with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, Academy of Drama Arts – University of
Zagreb, POGON – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Culture of Change – Student Center, What, How and for Whom/WHW and
Zagreb Dance Center.
