Archived: Night of performance

Ganz nove Perforacije: Night of performance

SCHEDULE NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE ZAGREB

Saturday 17.10.2020.

0-24h Milijana Babić and the Center for Women’s Studies Rijeka (HR): 3rd shift

• ads on billboards from 8 to 21.10. and the publication
• Savska kod Cibone, Savska kod Veslačke, Adžijina 3

The 3rd shift deals with questioning the relationship between the terms body – work – beauty – women from the position of the so-called third shift of women’s work, so the phrase is used in terms of what we call self-shaping, “repairing” the female body. material

culture. Connecting the idea of work and free time, the “third shift” becomes a focal point from which the traditional two shifts of women’s work, paid and unpaid (housework and care work), public and private, are observed, while at the same time affecting the whole so-called. the working aspect of women’s lives.

The work in the form of a publication simulates a women’s magazine, and is based on interviews with about sixty women with whom the authors spoke during the performance of various treatments in Rijeka’s “beauty salons”. Research participants shared their experiences from the “third shift” and revealed how they relate to their appearance, and how much time, money and energy they invest in their body and external appearance.

The work of the 3rd shift was realized as an intervention (insert) in the women’s magazine Gloria Glam, which was distributed in Croatia in February 2020 in 10,000 copies. In Zagreb, it is presented in the form of advertisements in public spaces and publications.

0-24h Nina Kurtela (HR): Untitled

• intervention in public space from 17 to 26.10.
• Trg BJ Jelačića 3, Tome Bakača 8, Tržnica Dolac, Zagreb Dance Center, Cvjetni trg, Varšavska 3, Zagreb Youth Theater, Park Zrinjevac, HNK Zagreb

Driven by the new situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the global restriction of movement that we all face in some way, I am interested in terms such as – limited movement, slowness, calmness, pause, pause and how to prevent, brake, stop, hold; stiffness; interference, obstacle can be a lever and a tool for discovering new reflections of space and movement through choreographic methodologies of work.

Traffic signs placed in a public space to give instructions or provide information to traffic participants can be seen as a kind of choreography that through rules, orders and notices affects the movement and thinking of citizens through a particular space. In this case, the signs do not consist of commands and notifications of danger, but suggest some new reflections on space, time and movement, opening space for contemplation of some new realities and / or fictions.

11-21h name: (SI): Ping-pong

• installation
• Showroom Gallery Nova, Teslina 7

Internationally active artist name: in his work Ping-pong thinks about the phenomenon of fenced state borders and ways to solve interstate problems, which often turn into endless situations of giving proposals, conditions, ultimatums, calls, drafts, recommendations from one country to another in the field state, economic, religious and bio politics.

On April 17, 2019, the artist and his teammate played ping pong over a panel fence erected by the Republic of Slovenia in 2017 along the Slovenian-Croatian border along the Kupa River to prevent or at least make it more difficult for immigrants to cross illegally.

11-23h Nika Bokić (HR): Safe hugs / Noli me tangere

• fanzin and SOS telephone line
• all locations

It goes without saying that this year has been difficult. Our plans failed, our projects were postponed, we were left without jobs and homes, we were doomed to stay in dysfunctional households, we were left without close people, we felt alone, scared and lost. Due to the decision to break the lockdown to save the economy more than ever, it seems to us that the end of the world is really more likely than the end of capitalism, job demand far exceeds supply, the projected drop in rental prices never comes true, we get half and contradictory information, and the end of the pandemic is not in sight. In moments of crisis, we usually turn to the community, which is currently hampered by the fact that there has been a certain redefinition of intimacy. It is difficult to approach intimacy spontaneously when we are advised to keep a distance of two meters and make love with protective masks. And there is nothing wrong with that, collective responsibility should not be trivialized. We would just like a hug. But is it right to look for it for free in the current conditions? We have the answer!

12 h Antonio Grgić (HR): Monuments play

• a participatory performance
• Josip Juraj Strossmayer Square – Hostage Shooting Monument

The fall of the Berlin Wall and Fukuyama’s proclamation of the “end of history” was followed by one of the greatest iconoclasms in the history of the world – the mass removal of monuments in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Croatia has followed this trend and thousands of monuments and memorials have been demolished or removed from public space.

With the participatory performance, the monument will again be turned into an object in public space, but also into a musical instrument. Namely, percussion will produce sounds, and since the monuments are very often made of bronze with an empty interior, they function as excellent and unique instruments with high sound quality. Knocking on different parts of the monument produces different sounds.

The composition that will be performed during the performance will be created in situ, participatory, with the participation of all interested parties and will always be a unique and unrepeatable event in the space. In that way, the monument would be returned to the citizens.

13-24h Petra Mrša (HR): Landscape

• installation in the form of flags
• Ban Josip Jelačić Square, King Tomislav Square, Republic of Croatia Square

We didn’t leave the apartment for days. We were not allowed to be out in the group. Schools, clubs, sports centers, parks, were closed or banned, police officers controlled the movement, allowing only what was necessary. The streets are empty. When a stranger passed by us, a moment of warmth and understanding would touch us. Luckily the other man is there. In parallel and / or together. Stress affected larger cities more significantly than smaller towns, as in the former life regularly takes place in larger groups. Are things going back to the old way now? How to experience and not ignore the streets, strangers, neighbors in crowded cities who in search of protection from too many stimuli create a blazed look and reactions?

In numerous post-coronation walks through public city space, I collected discarded objects from the streets as traces (and evidence) of human habitation. I additionally marked their dilapidation and rejection as a destructive act of their burning. After that, I showed their value and dystopian-futuristic-nostalgic attitude towards them by photographing them in studio conditions, and introducing to the scene parts of my body and pedestal as elements of the museum where selected objects exhibiting our memories are exhibited. The resulting series of photographs is placed in the public space to which he invites.

3 pm Petra Mrša (HR): Lesson

• A 45-minute scattered group walk in a public space

The second part of the paper involves inviting the audience / performers to spend a 45-minute school hour wandering the streets of their city in blue, hygienic shoe covers. Simple, blue nylon covers take you away from routine perception towards surgical observation of the gaze of casual passers-by and the urban landscape. Everyone who participates is instructed to bring one object from the walk, which they will place in front of their building.

17-21h Selma Banich (HR): Caress

• performance
• Gallery of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Pavla Hatza 6

At the entrance to the AMZ Gallery in Pavla Hatza Street, which until 1990 was called Liberation Street on May 8, 1945, you will be greeted by a volunteer from the Ganz New Perforation Festival. They will measure your temperature, ask you to put on a mask if you haven’t already, and leave contact information. According to the square footage, there can be 22 people in the gallery space at the same time. What happens next will depend on you and the artist who calls you to Caress.

Lay a palm or other body part on the body. Touch, grasp, brush. By touching to be with another and with another and with others. Pardon, tickle, pat. Being with a body that doesn’t touch if it doesn’t want to. Being with because the body never stands alone. Listen, observe, feel. “All radical engagements are inventions in a sense, reckless, inexperienced, extraordinary,” writes Erin Manning. In times of multiple pandemics, remain steadfast in your critique of power. And so be together. In improvisation with the senses.

17-23h Vladimir Novak (HR): Parameters

• intervention in the sculpture Eyes of Purification by Mirosław Bałka in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

PARAMETERS is one of the three light installations of the procedural multi-media project NO / HAS (M) TIME, started in April 2020, in which the author dissects the notions of closedness, framework, complexity of issues and fragility of the internal and external, intimate and social boundaries.

Constant change, unpredictability and immersive moments that require their time, which in principle we do not have, except that they have become characteristic in the emerging social environment, are the source and interest of the work in which the author focuses on the value of the process versus completion. work in general.

The context of the Ganz festival of New Perforations leads the author to propose an intervention in the currently dysfunctional sculpture Eyes of Purification by Mirosław Bałka in front of the MSU as an adequate space for perforation into the social and cultural fabric. By relating the temporary intervention to the permanent exhibition and the character of the project from which the work arises, by entering the space of the existing sculpture the author establishes a dialogue about changes through the process of examining the conditions of artistic work and factors influencing the work itself. Using the potential of media transformation of matter that the work initially includes and potentially generates in relation to the context of performance, by translating a key but absent element of Baška’s work – echoing noise of falling water within an empty concrete structure – the goal is to reactivate shaped by sound and video projection.

21h Vlasta Delimar and Milan Božić in collaboration with Silvija Dogan (HR): The Silence of Living Sculptures in the Silence of Damaged Houses

• projection of performance photographs
• yard in front of the Zagreb Dance Center, Ilica 10

Architecture and sculpture, through their common design, express the common spirit of the period in which they were created. The sculptural works complement and complete the composition of the architecture, not as an ornament, but as its equal component.

The bodies of Vlasta Delimar and Milan Božić behave like potential sculptures that show the current condition and attitude towards damaged buildings due to the recent earthquake in Zagreb, neglecting the body component of the sculpture as an ornament that shows harmony and balanced relationship between architecture and sculpture. These sculptural bodies are identified with damaged houses that by the time of the damage were supposed to be like an image of a universe that was brutally disrupted. The presence of living bodies of sculptures transfers their energy to damaged houses as an attempt to revitalize and rebuild.

Living Bodies sculptures can be placed in different places of damaged buildings; in a window, on some doors, on a balcony, on some holes in a wall where brick or some other building material is missing, on damaged gables and attics, on damaged roofs… staircases…

Living Bodies of the sculpture stand in selected places and should be seen if they are frequent places, and in quieter places the standing time can last as long as photo and video recording. The bodies of the artists are painted in pink and blue.