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Issue no. 49 |
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| Editor(s): Marin Blazevic | |
| Language: English, Croatian | |
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| This issue of Frakcija does not address a new topic; instead, it is dedicated to the new era on the local scene of performing arts, which is reflected on its own pages. Thicker than ever before, it contains texts written by a new generation of authors who think and write about a wide range of topics related to the performing arts – from a textual navigation through the performing modules of Montazstroj’s project Kazaliste vase i nase mladosti (Zmak) over a debate on institutional aesthetics in the Croatian theatre (Miskovic) to an analysis of the relationship between voice, speech, and music in Gavella’s theory of acting (Tupajic). The first bloc in this issue includes an interview with theatre director Anica Tomic and dramaturge Jelena Kovacic, which has been conducted by Lana Saric, a representative member of the new generation of Frakcija’s collaborators, as well as two contributions on Oliver Frljic’s work (Bender’s analysis of the status and strategies of textual interweaving in Miss Rice and an interview with Marin Blazevic on the performing challenges in three pieces that have radicalized, each in its own way, the problem of readiness of theatre as an institution for artistic experimentation, social criticism, and political action: Didona i Eneja & Smrt u Veneciji, Turbo folk, Bakhe) and an essay by Bojana Cvejic on “concepts as the events of problems” in the collaborative work of BAD.co, particularly in Deleted Messages and Memories are Made of This…
The second bloc features three contributions to A Glossary of Poetic Terms, which has evolved in the framework of What to Affirm? What to Perform? , a project launched by East Dance Academy.
The third and last bloc in this new issue of Frakcija announces the 15th conference of Performance Studies international, which will take place in Zagreb from 24-28 June, 2009 with the topic of Misperformance: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading. Texts by Branislav Jakovljevic, Lada Cale Feldman, John Mullarkey, and Matthew Goulish point to various possible directions in the research, analysis, and theoretical reflection of performance within the paradigm of performing studies. The three final texts were originally written as conference papers for Performance Studies international in New York (2007) and Copenhagen (2008). Being a journal that holds great merit for presenting the local scene and the studies of performing arts to the world, which is why it was entrusted with organizing the largest conference on performing arts ever held in this region, Frakcija will keep its readers updated on the programme of PSi #15 in the following issues, suggesting solutions to various problems imposed by the topic.
Contents: Jasna Zmak Tekst vase i nase mladosti (The Text You Deserve) Aleksandar Bender Text as a Geopolitical Strategy Anica Tomic & Jelena Kovacic Resistance Training (interview) Tea tupajic Glas, govor i glazba u teoriji glume Branka Gavelle (pokucaj otvaranja pitanja) (Croatian language only) Davor Miskovic Institutional Aesthetic in Croatian Theatre Bojana Cvejic “GIVE ME A PROBLEM!” BADco.2007 Oliver Frljic & Marin Blazevic Izvedi i snosi posljedice (interview, Croatian language only) Ana Vujanovic Second-hand Knowledge (from A Glossary of Poetic Terms) Ana Peraica MACHISTIC PERFORMANCE - “looking like a real man” in elite and popular cultures (from A Glossary of Poetic Terms) Misko Suvakovic Generations (from A Glossary of Poetic Terms) Branislav Jakovljevic History, Countermemory, Performance: Tito at Eurokaz Lada Cale Feldman Acting-out: Severina as Baroness Castelli (English language only) John Mullarkey Performative Metaphysics Matthew Goulish The time of the ordinary (English language only) |
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