Mila Pavićević and Kirsten Maar | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Photo: Radionica "On the question of Feminist Dramaturgy and Its Formats" uz potporu Frauenförderung - Free University Berlin, fotografija Calvin Lanz

• Biography
• The Project
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• Mila Pavićević and Kirsten Maar

  Mila Pavićević is an artist, dance researcher, dramaturge, writer, and teacher. Originally from Dubrovnik, Croatia, she now lives in Berlin, Germany. She holds a MA Degree in Dramaturgy from the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb, and a BA Degree in Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Comparative Literature, from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She works as a research assistant with Prof. Dr. phil Kirsten Maar at the department of Critical Dance studies, at the Free University Berlin. Her PhD evolves around the dramaturgical practice from former Yugoslavia and its contribution to Western contemporary dance. She works as a dramaturge mostly in the frame of the independent dance scene in Berlin, collaborating with artists, such as: Sheena McGrandles, Sergiu Matis, Sebastian Matthias, Public in Private, Martin Hansen, and Claire Vivienne Sobottke. For her fiction book Ice Girl and Other Fairytales, she has received in 2009 European Union Prize for Literature.

   

  Kirsten Maar is a dance and theater scholar and dramaturge and teaches as a junior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on choreographic processes in the 20th century, dissolutions between visual art, architecture and choreography, social choreographies and ethics of curating. Together with Gabriele Brandstetter she leads the project "Choreographies of Intervention. Formats and Pratiques of Decolonization and Ecology" in the SFB Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts; she is Principle Investigator in the DFG Research Training Group "Normativity - Critique - Change" and  together with Mila Pavićević she researches on dramaturgies in contemporary dance since 1989 within the framework of a project funded by the Thyssen Foundation. Publications include: Designs and Structures. William Forsythe's choreographic works in their architectural relations (2019), Generic Forms. Dynamic Constellations between the Arts, (ed. together with F. Ruda and J. Völker, 2017), Assign and Arrange. Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance (ed. together with M. Butte, F. McGovern, MF. Rafael, J. Schafaff, Sternberg 2014).

   

   

   

• Dramaturgy and Choreography – on the Developments of New Formats in Contemporary Dance

  24.-31.07.2023.

  Dramaturgy and Choreography – on the Developments of New Formats in Contemporary Dance

  à Impossible works: Earthquakes, Incisions and Daydreams –  Dramaturgy in Relation to Working Conditions in Contemporary Dance including the developments in former Yugoslavia

  In the frame of her dissertation, entitled: Impossible works: Earthquakes, Incisions and Daydreams – Dramaturgy in Relation to Working Conditions in Contemporary Dance including the developments in former Yugoslavia, Mila Pavićević investigates the contributions of the post-Yugoslav dramaturgy to Western Contemporary dance, focusing on the period from 2000 to 2020. Her research considers how the protagonists, mainly dramaturges, through their dramaturgical and curatorial, publishing and teaching practice, contributed to establishing aesthetics and politics of contemporary dance. The research focuses on dance in relation to labour and the respective production conditions in the context of former Yugoslavia, and its dance dramaturgy as a potential for social, poltical and aesthetic imaginations. A substantial part of the research reflects and analyses the work of contemporary dance collective BADco.

  This research is situated in the frame of a wider research project „Dramaturgy and Choreography – on the Developments of New Format in Contemporary Dance“, taking place at Free University Berlin and funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Kirsten Maar and focuses on the new formats that emerged in contemporary dance since 1989. Situated as "work of and from the in-between" – between rehearsal and mediation, between production and presentation, as a conglomerate of very different activities and practices – we describe dramaturgy as a never-ending practice of translation as well as a tool to reflect on the handling of specific forms of knowledge and their particular temporalities. In this respect, the project tries to rethink and position dramaturgy in the context of critical dance studies and practice.

  This residency will be dedicated to exploring and documenting the newly established archive of the collective BADCo, recently opened in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. It would like to invite dramaturges, choreographers, artists, pedagogues and mediators to share and discuss the theoretical framework and the results of archive research.

• Museum of modern and contemporary art

  → www.mmsu.hr

  Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (HR) - MMSU

   

  MMSU in Rijeka founded in 1948, in its long tradition offers a committed support to innovative ways of approaching, producing and presenting art. From its very beginning the Museum has been building reputation of one of the most prominent visual art institutions in Croatia, entrusted with presentation of Croatian artists at prestigious international art events such as: Venice Biennial 1962, 1997, 2007, 2010, Sao Paolo Biennial 1967, 2004 etc. 

  The Museum rounds its programming around visual art education, parallel to different modes of exhibition concepts that address new discursive possibilities and transform it into a place of inspiration, idea exchange and active participation. Under the motto openness, creativity & engagement, together with artistic, cultural and community organizations, Museum furthers visual arts research, collaboration and exchange within the region and internationally, while aspiring to reach increasingly diverse audiences and to work in a close relationship with the community.

  Museum’s collection offers a diverse range of artistic visions with over 8,000 artworks dated from the end of the 19^th century to the present day. From 2017 Museum is located at new address, Krešimirova 26c, in ex-industrial complex Rikard Benčić. Since then, some important exhibitions were organized at MMSU in the framework of the pre-program and program of Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture, i.e. Tomislav Gotovac: Crisis Anticipator - Don't Ask Where We're Going (2017), Vlado Martek: Exhibition with Many Titles and Goran Petercol: Don't Worry About Poetics, They Will Arrive on Their Own in 2019 and David Maljković: With the Collection in 2020..