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Slovenian contemporary dance needs your support!!!
Started Mar 29, 2012 0 Replies 0 Likes
Dear Artists, Cultural Workers, Friends and Lovers of Contemporary ArtPlease support us by signing this initiative, against the abolition of the first and only public institution in a field of…Continue
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Maska Ljubljana posted an eventGibanica - Slovenian contemporary dance platform at Ljubljana
Maska Ljubljana posted a blog postGestures of Resistance - new issue of Maska magazin
Maska Ljubljana's blog post was featuredNo one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011
Maska Ljubljana posted a blog postNo one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011
Maska Ljubljana's blog post was featuredThe new issue of the BCC magazine ART SPACE in the search of plurality just came out.
Maska Ljubljana's event was featured
Fake It! at Vestibule of St. Sophia, Ohrid, Macedonia / Ohrid Summer Festival
Maska Ljubljana posted an eventFake It! at Vestibule of St. Sophia, Ohrid, Macedonia / Ohrid Summer Festival
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- Maska is a non-profit organization for publishing, production (performances, interdisciplinary and visual art works), education and research.
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- In recent years, it has strengthened both the local and international performing arts scene as one of the rare organizations which also affirms theoretical and artistic creation. There for Maska invests in the production of artistic creations, which reflect upon and find themselves among contemporary theatre currents. Maska Productions produces performances and other artistic events by innovative, exploring artists as well as first projects of the youngest generation.
Through its history Maska has – in all areas of its activity – directly affected cultural and political space. The organization’s beginnings are connected with the performing arts journal Maska, which has stumbled upon numerous obstacles through its evolution; it has persevered in spite of these challenges and several counter movements. Maska was the publication that in the early 1920s offered the Slovenian theatrical space a patronage for freethinking and writings on different views upon theatre. The journal has opened the space for theatre critics, producers, and their new praxes, and so with persistence and consistency has furthered its purpose and the quality of professional publications. Today Maska journal is published in three double issues a year, each issue dedicated to one specific topic. Apart from articles related to chosen topics, the journal also includes interviews with artists and theoreticians, reviews of performances and books, articles on the hidden phenomena in contemporary performing arts, research findings etc. Book series TRANSformacije, profiled as a field of contemporary reflection on performing arts, including works by Slovene authors as well as translations of distinguished titles in the field and Mediakcije, profiled as a field of critical writings on media culture and society, are the foundations of the Maska publishing programme. The field of reflection comprises the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia and new-media art.
With its educational seminars of Contemporary Performing Arts and carefully selected interdisciplinary critical theory, Maska understands and analyses itself and the position of art. Seminar is all year programme, with lectures by internationally acclaimed scholars, artists and writers. Other seminar activities include organization of lectures, talks, debates, workshops etc. Through that Maska does not forget the importance of the historical perspectives within the theatre and the unavoidable transformation of society. There for we have organized many conferences on theory and contemporary art as well as public debates on cultural politics. Our lecturers and students are involved in many European conferences and seminars which demands from Maska big responsibility and also reminds us of the fact that Maska must not become yet another among the masked images of the global cultural sell-out.
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Gestures of Resistance - new issue of Maska magazin
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 8:56am 0 Comments 0 Likes
MASKA, vol. XXVII, No. 151–151 (winter 2012)
The present thematic supplement that has been conceived by Martina Rusham over the course of almost a year focuses on theatre and art strategies of resistance to the existing neoliberal economic and consequentially political paradigms that have lately left a strong mark on all layers…
No one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The “explosion of memory” of all excessive and transgressive acts of Via Negativa; the memory of nudity, blood, sweat and urine that permeated contemporary Slovenian and European performing arts scene thanks to Via Negative performers in the period 2001 - 2011. As a form of artistic expression, excess is a performing strategy that has significantly marked the work of Via Negativa. However, transgressive acts, nudity, provocation, shock, etc. in their projects have never served as cheap means…
Continue The new issue of the BCC magazine ART SPACE in the search of plurality just came out.
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
ART SPACE in the search of pluralityThe sixth issue of the BCC Magazine invites cultural workers and activists in the Balkans to discuss the dimensions of space for the arts and its production. The issue of securing venues for and by artists, within the general lack of such spaces, has proven to be the key factor for advancement and development of…
Continue The Event as a Privileged Medium / MASKA Performing Arts Journal; vol. XXVII, No. 147–148 (summer 2012)
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The summer issue of Maska journal brings contributions to the symposium The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World held at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana in November 2011, as part of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts. The guest editor Beti Žerovc focused on various phenomena of art…
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