11TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF STUDENT THEATRE AND MULTIMEDIA / MEĐUNARODNI FESTIVAL STUDENTSKOG KAZALIŠTA I MULTIMEDIJA

TEST!0 - BIG BANG

THEATRE PROGRAMME
MM PROGRAMME
MUSIC PROGRAMME
CONFERENCE
WORKSHOPS

[THEATRE PROGRAMME]

PON/MON (22.03.)
19h – Jadran Grubišić, THE BIRD (Croatia, polukružna dvorana)
http://www.test.hr/test//#TLab
21.30h – Pozorište Glej, ŠKRIP ORKESTRA (Slovenia, dvorana MM)

UTO/TUE (23.03.)
17h – ESC Teatar, MI KAO ONI (Zagreb, dvorište SC-a)
19h – Leja Jurišič i Teja Reba, BETWEEN US (Slovenia, polukružna dvorana)
21h – Anna Nowicka, THE NO-BODY PROJECT (Poland, velika dvorana &TD)

SRI/WED (24.03.)
20h – New Bulgarian University "Slug theatre", THE OPPOSITE OF KILLING (Bulgaria, velika &TD)
21.30h – Ryuzo Fukuhara, GECKO DANCE – DANCE OF MOONLIGHT (Japan, polukružna)

ČET/THU (25.03.)
19h - “Les Indifférents” Paris X Nanterre Theatre Company, THE MADMAN AND THE NUN (France, dvorana MM)
21h – Artemis Lampiri, APATHEIA (Greece/Israel, polukružna dvorana)

PET/FRI (26.3.)
20h – Ryuzo Fukuhara, GECKO DANCE – DANCE OF MOONLIGHT (Japan, Velika dvorana &TD)
21.30h – Studio kazališnih istraživanja, CHAS (Croatia, polukružna)

SUB/SAT (27.3.)
18h – Akademsko pozorište "Branko Krsmanović", LEKCIJA (Serbia, dvorana MM)
19.30h – Dejan Andrić, LUDA [Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud] (Bosnia and Herzegovina, SC –> ADU)

Razgovori o predstavama će se odvijati od 23. do 27. ožujka od 16 do 18h u Klubu SC, a o predstavama zadnjeg dana će se razgovarati odmah iza izvedbi. Discussions about performances will take place from 16 till 18PM @klub SC.


[MM PROGRAM]

MM.1
omjeri lakih elemenata
23.03. – 25.03.2010, 14h – 22h, @ GALERIJA SC :
Signe Lillemark: «This is not me», Andrea Zrno : «Me vs. Myself», Juan Beladrich: «walk», Igor Juran: «Jutarnji program», Signe Lillemark: «The walk»

MM.22
kvazari i radio-galaksije,
26.03. i 27.03.2010.,14h – 22h, @ GALERIJA SC
Beata Kolbašovska i Jakub Pišek: «Acoustic quintet of visual noise», Ricardo Lafuente: «Lettersoup», Erik Overmeire i Dennis de Bel: «Cambrian Explosion»;
26. 03. 2010., 19h, @MM CENTAR, 0pen m0de collective: «mix[ing]redients» (GR/NL)

MM.0
nevidljivo zbivanje
23. 03. 2010, 18h, @MM CENTAR
Josip Horvat i Bruno Lovrić: «;The Final Countdown» (HR), performans
25. 03. 2010, 17:30-19h, @MM CENTAR
Dje.V.E.: «Kobajage – Grad iz snova» (HR), izlaganje
Lemeh42: «Possible Cities» (IT), projekcija
25. 03. – 27.03. 2010., @FOAJE MM
Dje.V.E.: «Kobajage – Grad iz snova» (HR), izložba
25. 03. – 27.03. 2010., @FOAJE MM
John Henry Newton i Clemence de La Tour du Pin: «we'll probably name it afterwards!» (UK), instalakcija
23. 03. – 27.03. 2010., @SC
Josip Horvat i Bruno Lovrić: «The Final Countdown» (HR), akcija
23. 03. – 27.03. 2010., @KAFE &TD
Joao Paulo Nasri: «Café Evropa» (P), izložba

[KONFERENCIJA / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE]
24. – 26. 3. Međunarodna konferencija „Studentsko kazalište i politički aktivizam“ ("Student theatre and political activism")
@Studentski dom „Cvjetno naselje“, konferencijska dvorana, 10 – 13 h

[RADIONICE / WORKSHOPS]
-MASKA – RELJEF NUTRINE (interaktivna izložba), voditeljica: Kruna Tarle
-SILENT DIALOGUE (radionica butoh plesa), voditelj: Riyuzo Fukuhara

[GLAZBENI /MUSIC PROGRAMME]

PON/MON (22.03.)
22.30 Luft, DJ Sanjin(caffe &td)

UTO/TUE (23.03.)
22.00 MUSICa, Petra Antolić Quintet (caffe &td)

SRI/WED (24.03.)
22.00 Far Go Traders, Funk Guru (caffe &td)

ČET/THU (25.03.)
22.00 Go Mars, DJ Rea (caffe &td)

PET/FRI (26.3.)
22.00 Hemendex, Mladi ljudi (predvorje Kina SC)

SUB/SAT (27.3.)
22.00 Analogue Klash, Ivan Krželj (predvorje Kina SC)



Test!0 theatre programme summary

Monday 22nd March 2010
19 h
@ polukružna &td

Performer: Jadran Grubišić
Country: Croatia
Contact person: Jadran Grubišić
Phone: +385 98 1826 618
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Name of the play: Ptica (The Bird)

Author of the play: Jadran Grubišić
Light design: Luka Matić
Sound design: Srđan Badurina i Andrea Giordani
Light and sound master: Luka Matić

Duration of performance: 50 min

About the play:
It's about a man whose stable, monotonous life is changed by a bird that flies through his window one day. Their life becomes partnership, friendship, love...
It's a story about loneliness, faith in oneself, and in general what freedom is to a human. We are all dreaming about having wings. And? What if we had them?

When life is empty, a bird comes flying in.
When life is grey, a bird comes flying in.
When the happiest moment in life happens, a bird comes flying in.
Do I see it then?

The Bird arose from a small exercise for „the work of an actor in a genre“. It united exercises for space and the development of dramatic character from animals by using different qualities of movement and sound. With time I was collecting experiences from actor techniques and studied myself in them.
In all of that, looking for the opportunity to be honest and say something about myself, I was slowly writing the text, directing a little bit and was acting here and then... I tried to act the least and mostly talk about who I am and what's bothering me. The Bird is a kind of conflict with oneself but also a trace of one's love. The Bird is a big wish and love for the theatre, and some good friend that was necessary in walking through life and me at the academy. As much as I love all my birds and I thank them in this way, I also want to know am I someone's bird? That's what I aspire to...

About the performer:
Jadran Grubišić was born in 1984 in Osijek, where he took acting and puppetry classes at the Academy of art. From August 2008 till December 2009 he was a permanent member of the City puppet theatre in Rijeka. Since January 2010 he lives and works in Zagreb. He played in pieces for children and adults and is participant of numeruos home and international drama and puppet festivals.



Monday 22nd March 2010
20 h
@ velika &td

Name of the group: Theatre Laboratory “@lma @lter”
Country: Bulgaria
Contact person: Zornitsa Antonova
Phone: +359 88 6038 033
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Web: www.almaalter.com

Name of the play: Hamlet, or Three Boys and One Girl
Director: Petya Yosifova
Author of the text: Nikolaj Georgiev
Performers: Petya Yosifova, Zornitsa Antonova, Boris Krastev, Pavel Kolev, Ivan Ivanov, Nadezda Dicheva, Vasya Popova, Felicite Zeuh, Iva Georgieva, Biliana Mihailova, Roslana Dimenova, Ekaterina Mincheva, Georgi Lazarov, Nikola Stefanov
Scene movement: Vasilena Yordanova
Light design: Nikola Georgiev
Costume design: Slaveya Dimitrova

Duration of performance: 60 min

About the play:
"Shakespeare - contemporary and cruel" - this is what the most eminent English playwright is to his most contemporary and most cruel interpreter, professor Jan Kott. And if he succeeds in stripping all the other Shakespearean heroes out of their skin and showing us their meat - naked, their blood - running, now in "Hamlet" his surgical intervention is even more cardinal.
Trepanation opens the notorious Shakespearean skull and denudes Hamlet's brain for us so we could see the chaos of thoughts, "The Tempest" of thoughts which has been raging for centuries.
Jan Kott does not exhibit the question "What is Hamlet?", but "How do you become Hamlet?", "What is the Hamlet thing in Hamlet?", "What is that which makes hamlets from ones and non-hamlets from others?" and in an exceptionally vivid and readable scenic reading.
"Three Boys and One Girl" is the cruel line by Shakespeare formulated by Jan Kott and thrown as a glove in the face of our cruel "today", a cruel scenic vision of the murder not of Hamlet but of "the Hamlet gene" - so that he disappears forever and never torments the mankind again. How close we are to the Holy Scripture and to the story about Christ and king Irod. Only the names are different...

About the group:
The theatre of the University of Sofia was initially founded in 1968. Due to ideological considerations it was later shut down. It was re-established in 2000 as „@lma @lter“ Theatre-laboratory by its founder Nikolay Georgiev.
„@lma @lter“ penetrates into and researches the primary, essential theatre means of expression in the context of the present day. „@lma @lter“ is syncretic, creative, strongly unconventional, open, daring, and is also known as „The alive theatre“. The philosophy and the methodology of „@lma @lter“ is based on the aesthetics, theory and practice of the Bulgarian theatre reformer Geo Milev and probably is closest to Grotowski's „Poor theatre“ principles. Each performance of „@lma @lter“ should be different from the previous one, because it is set on the principle of „happening here, now, with these people“. „@lma @lter“ has won recognition in the cultural life of its country as a unique place, where the theatre is not „produced“, but born, where „things happen“, what is a categorical alternative to the (conventional) theatre in Bulgaria.



Monday 22nd March 2010
21.30 h
@ MM

Name of the group: Pozorište Glej
Country: Slovenia
Contact person: Inga Remeta
Phone: +386 41 849 139
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Web: www.glej.si

Name of the play: Škrip Orkestra

Director: Jelena Rusjan
Authors of the text: Škrip Orkestra, Jure Novak i Andreja Kopač

Performers: Jelena Rusjan, Barbara Kranjc, Ana Franjić, Andreja Kopač, Neja Tomšić, Urša Vohar, Lea Jurišić

Costume and scene design: KREATURA i ROBA SISTEMA
Drawnings by: Neja Tomšič
Light design: Borut Bučinel
Technical support: Borut Bučinel i Janko Oven
Production: Pozorište Glej
Coproduction: Mesto Žensk
Photography: Nada Žgank

Duration of performance: 60 min

About the play:
With the playful kitsch-noir aesthetics, through a musical-theathre form, interwine themes of violence, personal responsibility and lost childhoods. An inspiration for the play came from a boruad spectrum – from the dark McDonagh's play „Jastučko“, H. C. Andersen, Tim Burton, well known children rymes to the ucompromising punk.

The key feature of Škrip Orkestra is sharpened relation between pop melodies and serious, almost nauseating content, what brings out the question of each individual (and author) for his social and cultural habits, and seeks the most effective way of artistic expression.

About the group:

For 40 years Glej has been synonymous with new, fresh, open and contemporary theater.
To this day, Glej maintains its original mission: to seek and create new trends and directions in the theatre. Our shows are communicative and open, yet at the same time well thought out and built. We deal with contemporary approaches to the spectator, living stories and engaged projects. We seek out and unravel paradoxes, try to find names for nameless phenomena and approach themes and situations directly and with an open mind.



Tuesday 23rd March 2010
17 h
@ SC

Name of the group: ESC teatar (a part of NGO Test! – Theatre to Students)
Country: Croatia
Contact person: Matija Kezele
Phone: +385 95 513 48 68
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Web: www.test.hr

Name of the play: Us and them (outdoor performance)

Idea and directing: Matija Kezele i Marta Bolfan Ugljen

Performers: Marina Bažulić, Marta Bolfan Ugljen, Jadran Grubišić, Adriana Josipović, Matija Kezele, Marija Kolb, Karlo Kučanda, Kate Marušić, Sanja Mataga, Ana Takač, Asim Ugljen, Ivan Zaluški

Duration of performance: 45 min

About the play:
The play has two performing forms. In a theatre space and outdoors, in real life, on squares, streets... The outdoor performance, we will show on Test!, is ment to be an inspiration for momentary action.
In this part of the performance we have a goal to explore the human perception of the amazing and point to the beauty of life. To show that with everyday obligations a little thing is enough to make life beautiful. We will enhance people (passerbys) to liberate themselves from bans, to move their boundaries of consciousness.
The theatre part of the performance is still a work in progress.
This play is inspired with our exam production based on the text of Peter Handke: The moment we didn't know anything about each other. Because of the interesting text and flexibility that is allowed to this structure, we decided to develop that material after the Academy.

About the group:
In 2010 within NGO Test! – Theatre to Students we established ESC Theater out of the need for the joint cooperation and continuity of a work begun at the Academy. The group includes some former students of the Art Academy in Osijek and young performers who worked in Zagreb for many years. As an association we want to expand cooperations with current and future participants of our festival, as well as the student population in Europe.



Tuesday 23rd March 2010
19 h
@ polukružna &td

Performers: Leja Jurišič i Teja Reba
Country: Slovenia
Contact person: Leja Jurišič
Phone: +386 41 506 911
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Name of the play: Between us

Directors and choreographers: Leja Jurišič i Teja Reba
Authors of the text: Leja Jurišič i Teja Reba
Light design: Borut Cajnko
Producent: Nataša Zavolovšek
Photography: Petra Vever

Duration of performance: 75 min

About the play:
Between us is an intense creation about coexisting and vicinity, about solitude and passion. The performance shows us the complex feminine understanding of a female body and the flow of time. For a performing genre a film montage is used as an approach (the slow-motion, deficit of a spoken sound, frozen motion). They use it as content (as a communication noise between us, a disturbance) and as a composition for it tears the line of time and keeps the attention of the viewer
Between us is the result of three years of consistent collaboration between Teja Reba and Leja Jurišič. The piece it self was created from August till November 2009 in Slovenia and France. The basic interest of two authors was the understanding of the necessity of co-existing among human beings. On the level of a genre and theatrical form they were interested in the flow of time in dance compared to the flow of time in film. As for the 'language' of the piece they researched movement equally to the spoken word.

About the performers:
Leja Jurišič and Teja Reba are both young Slovenian choreographers and dancers.

Leja has a respectable international experience in collaboration with different choreographers: Meg Stuart, Mala Kline, Matej Kejžar, Janez Janša. Her performative skills bring multilayered understanding of the body which becomes even more visible in her own choreographic work. Since 2005 she created 5 pieces: R'z'r*, For myself, Hidden, Pre-Christmas dinner, Between us.

Teja has a very analytical approach to movement and the body attitude in general. She was trained in India, Brazil and France. Her reach education in the anatomy of movement enables her to perform a wide range of technically demanding choreography. Her creations: Between us, Pre-Christmas dinner.



Tuesday 23rd March 2010
21 h
@ velika &td

Performer: Anna Nowicka
Country: Poland
Contact person: Anna Nowicka
Phone: +386 517 13 500
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Name of the play: No-body project

Concept and creation: Anna Nowicka
Musician: Primož Bončina (trumpet samples from Olgierd Dokalski)
Dramaturgical advice: Anja Bajda
Graphic design: Philip Grüber Bojovich
Partners: YANVII - Cesena (Italija) i Zavod Vitkar (Slovenija)
Special thanks: Branku Potočanu, Dragani Alfirević, Maloj Kline i Katji Legin

Duration of performance: 40 min

About the play:
What happens if the sight tells you are meeting a human, but your senses cannot recognize a human being? What determines if one is alive? And quite the opposite: how does a body without life act? How does a body striving for life behave? What makes one human? What makes oneself a particular self?
What makes me – me?
The starting point for the process were questions about being alive and being dead, and the notion of “undead” – as introduced by Slavoj Žižek, which means: „retaining all the predicates of a living being without being one“.The work is very much influenced by a research about androids and mechanics, however aiming to question what does it mean to be a human being.
The work is inspired by: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s short film “Talking Heads”; Phie Ambo’s documentary “Mechanical love”; Jungian psychology and the research on dreams.



Wednesday 24th March 2010
20 h
@ velika &td

Name of the group: “Slug theatre”, New Bulgarian University
Country: Bulgaria
Contact person: Alexander Predov
Phone: +359 898 62 81 85
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Web: www.nbu.bg

Name of the play: The opposite of killing (Suprotno ubijanju)

Choreographer: Tzveta Kassabova
Director-consultant: Tatyana Sokolova

Performers: Emilia Kamenova, Irena Tzvetanova, Iana Lazarova, Christina Pileva, Tanya Katzarova, Stephana Taneva, Victor Milushev, Galin Velikov

Duration of performance: 45 min

About the play:
The opposite of killing explores loneliness, anger, understanding, remembering, and beauty related to the absence of a close friend. The play was initially the solo work of Tatyana Sokolova and then expaned into a performance with eight students from the New Bulgarian University at Sofia. One of the big inspirations for the work is Arvo Part’s music that brought the idea of simplicity, the beauty of openness and space.

About the group:
Tatyana Sokolova is a teacher of modern dance techniques in NBU since 1994 and the performers are her students.

„In the process of working with the students at NBU I am trying to expand their knowledge of dance, to encourage them to be creative and at the same time to introduce them to my aesthetic and movement style. I am using improvisation, creative tasks and theatrical structures to involve the dancers in the work. The movement vocabulary of the work is a combination of relies technique, athletic and dynamic dancing, pedestrian and minimalistic gestures. In general, space is the key element in my work.

In this, unlike in my like other projects, I explore space with just dance tools. We are relaying on clear lines and pathways, extremes in density and color and dynamics of the stage in order to invite the audience into our world. With this work I would like for the dance to create a frame that will allow each viewer to find their own questions and answers.“
(Tatyana Sokolova)



Wednesday 24th March 2010
21.30 h
@ polukružna &td
&
Friday 26th March 2010
20 h
Velika dvorana &td

Performer: Ryuzo Fukuhara
Country: Japan (Slovenia)
Contact person: Ryuzo Fukuhara
Phone: +486 40 290 933
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Web: http://www.geocities.jp/ryuzodance
http://www.youtube.com/Alchmicsisters

Name of the play: Gecko Dance – Dance of moonlight

Director: Ryuzo Fukuhara
Costume design: Martina Štirn
Photography: Janusz Matuszeweski

Duration of performance: 45 min

About the play:
The gecko is a common lizard in Asia. They gather around fluorescent lamps at night.
The word gecko sounds the same as "gekko", which means "moonlight" in Japanese.
In addition, my original Korean family name is Moon. In this performance I am connecting Asia and Europe by diving into my origin, linking these concepts: the gecko, the moonlight and the night.

About the performer:
Fukuhara’s interest in Butoh was confirmed after attending a Butoh workshop led by Semi-maru from the group, Sankaijuku, in 1987.
In 1991 Fukuhara joined the Butoh group Maijuku directed by one of the leading figures in Butoh, Min Tanaka. From 2000 onwards, Fukuhara switched focus to Europe. He has performed and held workshops in many countries, including the UK, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Russia, USA, Vietnam, Cambodia; and more recently Spain.
In 2006, he was awarded the 2nd prize of the solo-dance contest at 11th Masdanza - the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Canary Islands, Spain.



Thursday 25th March 2010
19 h
@ velika &td

Name of the group: “Les Indifférents” Paris X Nanterre Theatre Company (Member of IUTA since 2001)
Country: Francuska
Contact person: Steven Ayache
Phone: +33 610 601 976
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Web: lesindifferents.wordpress.com

Name of the play: The Madman and the Nun

Director: Michel Nebenzahl
Author of the text: Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz

Performers: Selma Agopian, Steven Ayache, Lola Fonseque, Roland Richard, Morgane Simon, Alexandre Thepin, Jérémy Thuilliez

Duration of performance: 35 min

About the play:
We are in a cell of the security unit in a psychiatric hospital: “Dementia Praecox” ("premature insanity"), what is also diagnose pronounced towards a young poet who is in a camisole there. But the medical team, following the notice of one of his members - a psychoanalyst - decided to tempt an experiment by seeking the help of a young nun in order to "extirpate the complex" of a forgotten "accident" which would be the cause of a "devastation" from which the poet suffers. The shock of a meeting between "the madman" and "the nun" literally blows up the psychiatric device, the benchmark of all disciplinary institutions.
The choice of this creation answers the vocation that we recognize of the university theater: extension and deepening of the directory. Our interest went this time on this short play by S.I. Witkiewicz, written in 1923. that is at the junction of expressionism, dada and surrealism. Tadeusz Kantor staged it in 1963 as a manifest of his “Theatre zero”. We then would like to link what Kantor meant with this „Zero“ with the „zero“ challenge of Test!0.

About the group:
The Company “Les Indifférents“ includes diverse fields of activity conected with performing arts; dramatic art, scenography, dance, music. Their practice, teaching, research is not professionnal or "amateur" but strictly „university". It aims at unpublished work, at what, for diverse reasons, couldn't be published somewhere else. The Company performs unpublished texts in several languages. The rigor and the inventions to which it refers and of which it testifies, were recognized during all the Congresses of the AITU.



Thursday 25th March 2010
21 h
@ polukružna &td

Name of the group: Artemis Lampiri
Country: Greece, Izrael (Netherlands)
Contact person: Artemis Lampiri
Phone: +31 (0)20 84 56 637, +31 (0)6 19 33 78 84
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Web: artemislampiri.wordpress.com

Name of the play: Apatheia

Director: Artemis Lampiri
Performers: Mor Shani, Reut Shemesh, Ilan Gold
Music: Meesha Marks

Duration of performance: 22 min

About the play:
Apatheia is a trio dance piece that deals with the battle that is happening inside us when ego, super-ego and the id are coming in a collision.

A woman is introducing herself showing us her urge to control the people around her through her peculiar personality. Two men are representing a manipulative relationship that could refer to the one of father and son. Slowly these two worlds merge and become one. The game between solitude and companionship, sharing and self indulgence is just now starting.
The kind of relationships that are introduced together with the state of being of the soloist are underlining the odd but yet honest and introspective psychological space that the performers are in. They just exchange partners in three different duets without any heartbreaking goodbyes. In fact they deliver their own mach to the next person when they are through with him. It’s not only that in the end that one of them will decide by himself to move on to the next identical relationship by her own will.
No one is getting in the way of the others’ wills and instincts. They are there in order just to accompany each other throughout their actions and needs. The “I” is much stronger than the “WE” but is more than clear that the “WE”’ is necessary so as to define the “I” and hold it through its being and survival.
Apatheia is a choreography about facing the core of us. It is a mixture of my childhood, my adult life, my entourage and the images I have before going to sleep processed in a blender with my choreographic knowledge, dramaturgy instincts and stage design taste.
Apatheia creates a demand on both the dancers and the audience to leave all other thoughts aside; to enter the theater space as if it were part of their fantasy and for me as an artist to see my entrails on stage as if my limbic brain is flesh and bones, breathing without me.

About the group:
The three dancers have collaborated with me in the developmental process of creating movement for the choreography concentrating on a small corner in the back of their minds; the place we all go to when we cannot face or feel life.



Friday 26th March 2010
21.30 h
@ polukružna &td

Name of the group: Studio kazališnih istraživanja
(Studio of the theatre research)
Country: Croatia
Contact person: Marina Bažulić
Phone: +385 91 2122 954
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Name of the play: Chas

Directors: the group
Authors of the text: the group

Performers: Karlo Kučanda, Jadran Grubišić, Maja Dobrila, Marko Kalc, Marina Bažulić

Associates: Ana Ogrizović, Mario Podrug

Duration of performance: 50 min

About the play:
Chas is a performance of the physical theater based on the elements of Beckett's Quad. It deals with the flow of time in space and separating these two concepts, or the question of whether space exists without time. In this sense, the circle appears as a symbol of the flow of time and the square as a symbol of the material, box, space. From the structure, which is continuous, came out the story about the flow of time in one particular moment of a man. The story of his struggle to understand and accept the transience, and finally death, which results in some new form of life. The omnipresent consciousness of the force that drives everything, and it is a force life-death-life.

About the group:
Five artists from different fields of art (acting, puppetry, music, dance, performance) were assembled and went to investigate quad.



Saturday 27th March 2010
18 h
@ MM

Name of the group: Akademsko pozorište „Branko Krsmanovic“
Country: Serbia
Contact person: Vladimir Cvejić
Phone: +381113613451; +381642204096
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Web: http://www.krsmanovic.rs/

Name of the play: Lekcija (The Lesson)

Director: Vladimir Cvejić
Author of the text: Eugene Ionesco

Performers: Tatjana Aleksić, Danijel Milivojević, Srećko Mitrović, Vladimir Aleksić, Miloš Ristanović, Jovana Belović, Jadranka Grce, Bojana Djurić, Aleksandra Belosević, Aleksandra Petkovic, Jovana Trojanović

Duration of performance: 60 min

About the play:
This is the new reading of Eugene Ionesco, a classic of the absurd theatre. Setting and access to the piece confirm the ubiquity and the timeliness of the absurd as our everyday life, and we can even say, as a way of life. The action is transferred from the professor’s room on the ground of a TV studio where goes the direct transfer of teachers and students competing in a big bang of knowledge and ignorance. Final sum corresponds to the figure of absurd theatre, 0 (zero). Where all this leads?
"There is no effective means for easy rule of man rather than entertainment...
With the help of the fun one can make idiots from whole nations."

About the group:
From its begining (1922) Academic theatre was avant-garde, facing the new writers and more modern theatrical expression. Since 1946 the acting in the ACAS "Branko Krsmanović" the Academic theater continues to give their best individuals to theater arts as professional actors, directors, writers, stage and costume designers... the Academic theater is a place where students form the foundation of a creative, organizational and performing team, but also the unique example of a student theater that performs constantly.



Saturday 27th March 2010
19.30 h
@ SC (ispred MM-a) via ADU

Performer: Dejan Andrić
Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina
Contact person: Dejan Andrić
Phone: + 387 65 741 363
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Name of the play: Antonie Marie Joseph Artaud LUDA (Antonie Marie Joseph Artaud JESTER)

Graduate performance of Dejan Andrić (class of Professor Nenad Bojić)

Promotional materials: Marko Dukić

Duration of performance: 33 min

About the play:
It is inspired by the life and work of Antoine Artaud, and presents an attempt of one man to get out of himself. This attempt is borderling existential situation - meeting life and death! The game he needed to discover that it is impossible to get out of himself, and this means the impossibility of madness - death. End shows the crucifixion - death!

About the performer:
Dejan Andrić was in 1982 in Banja Luka, where he got a degree on the Academy of Arts in acting in the class of Professor Nenad Bojic, and he lives and works there. Since 1997 he is an active member of the scene in Banja Luka, and he also attended many workshops that have contributed to his artistic development. Plays in various professional projects in his country.

This play, we shall close the festival with, was made with the help of KRADU - The Academy of drama arts theatre revue in Zagreb – which will use the same piece to open this years program.

www.adu.hr
http://www.kradu.adu.hr/



Test!0 mm programme summary

Author: Joao Paulo Nasri
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Country: Portugal
Title of the work: Café Evropa

photography

Art photography approaching the idea of social consciousness. Using double exposure technique the author is interested in the space generated between two images. Photographs were made between 2003 and 2009 in various European countries between Lisbon and Istanbul, two European capitals standing far apart although sharing the same atmosphere. With this project the author is searching for an idea of Europe through the cafe as the concept.



Authors: John Henry Newton, Clemence de La Tour du Pin
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Country: UK / France
Title of the work: we'll probably name it afterwards!

multimedia, performance

John Henry Newton and Clemence de La Tour du Pin are an Anglo-French creative duo who are currently collaborating in London. Their collective work appears very conversational, almost like three-dimensional diagrams of symbol and language that are strung together by drawings, texts and objects. They have a firm ethic of "doing something" which means that their performative installations become messy monuments to their own creative process. This seems to capture an element of the everyday, with found materials and familiar themes recurring throughout the spaces they manipulate. Like a soup of the freshest ingredients, their blend of material, subject and concept is always best served hot (with a small pinch of salt).



Author: Signe Lillemark
Collaborator: George Chiper (cinematographer)
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Country: Romania
Title of the work: This is not me

video

I did a series of performances in my home as a way of investigating the alienation and the claustrophobic feeling of the contemporary everyday. I wanted to express this through the relation between the body and the psyche, using the outer body as a description of what is going on in the inside.



Author: Signe Lillemark
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Country: Romania
Title of the work: The Walk

video

This video is a study of a single action: The walk.
At the same time it is a study of places we walk and lead our lives, as well as triviality and loneliness that echoes from it.



Authors: Beata Kolbašovska, Jakub Pišek
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Country: Slovakia
Title of the work: Acoustic quintet of visual noise

action, performance

This performance is pointing at communication between the computer and the human – a basic interactive coexistence. Is the human controlling the computer, or the computer is controlling the human? The piano roll is a cage in the space of a computer sound in Fruity Loops. Let’s bring some more human nature to computer music.



Author: Ricardo Lafuente
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Country: Portugal
Title of the work: Lettersoup

interactive installation

Lettersoup is an installation that invites the public to create their own letter-forms and alphabets. It features a physical interface (digital turntable) so that anyone can fiddle and perform with the controls in order to create their own alphabets; finally, they can have their new font e-mailed to them, ready to be used in most graphics and text applications.



Authors: Josip Horvat, Bruno Lovrić
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Country: Croatia
Title of the work: The Final Countdown

performance, action

Zero! Current social and political situation in our society and the world reminds of many turning points in human history which came out amidst revolutionary and radical changes. In such turmoils various religious groups, as well schools of scientists, always emerge trying to peddle salvation to the ordinary public, luring them with different visions of apocalypse--a consequence of rejecting their ideas--and offering "the solution".
Are we really close to the moment "zero"--the end of the world--or our current political, religious, and general social condition on this planet is nearing the moment when all such apparently trivial theories will be brought down to nothing--zero--when people will use critical thought and act as one?



Authors: 0pen m0de collective (Maria Karagianni, Sjoerd Leijten)
Collaborator: Janine Brall (performer)
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Country: Greece / the Netharlands
Title of the work: mix[ing]redients

interactive performance

mix[ing]redients deals with remote controls, distribution of roles and decisions between deterministic and improvised qualities of composition. It reflects on the power of controlling in equal manner elements such as sound and light but also the dancer. By using a much-mediated environment the spectator becomes responsible for the progress of the piece.



Authors: Lemeh42
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Country: Italy
Title of the work: Possible Cities

animation

Possible Cities is composed of 26 short animations, each of them corresponding to a letter of the Latin alphabet. Possible Cities are not recognizable; we gave them names we have invented. Our intention is to reflect on meanings of cities in contemporary society. Cities are conglomerates of memories, desires, and languages; cities are exchange places, not only of goods exchange, but also of words exchange, memories exchange as well as desires.



Author: Andrea Zrno
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Country: Croatia
Title of the work: Me vs. Myself

video

This video inquires into consciousness about personal duplicity and frustration with perception of surroundings in a given moment. The window, a view to the outside, I use as a metaphor for my own perception and my other presence for that part of my personality which spoils that perception and causes my pessimism. The failed attempt of cleaning the window and the fight with myself at the end results with destruction and the story ends with an announcement of a result from which one can assume of which kind of a fight this is talking about.



Authors: Radna skupina: Dje.V.E. (Djevojke Vode Evidenciju)
Collaborators: mr. art. Jelena Kovačević, Iva Maria Mekovec De Carvalho
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Country: Croatia
Title of the work: Kobajage – Grad iz snova

public art, installation, photography

Project Kobajage – Grad iz Snova (Make-Believe – A city of dreams) is based on the change of human priorities and wishes during life. Questioning is conducted mainly by polling nine-year-olds during their class. Guided by that change as the main characteristic of the project, we are also interested in which way the design of a city of dreams changes in a grown-up person and would like to conduct the same poll with the adult citizens of the city of Osijek so we could document their cities of dreams.



Author: Juan Beladrich
Collaborators: Bas van Oostveen (actor) / Koos Dekker (camera)
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Country: Argentine / the Netherlands
Title of the work: walk

video

A short film based on the «Theory of the Dérive» by Guy Debord.



Authors: Erik Overmeire & Dennis de Bel
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Country: the Netherlands
Title of the work: Cambrian Explosion

installation

In this installation two computers are involved in an intricate evolutionary debate. The sound output of one computer is used to generate a 3D entity on the other computer, which, on his turn, generates sound again based on this entity. This process is then repeated, with each iteration building upon another, creating an ever evolving play of shape and sound.



Author: Igor Juran
Collaborators: Daniel Gržin (camera, light, sound) / Siniša Bahun, Maja Rožman (actors)
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Country: Croatia
Title of the work: Jutarnji program

video

Justificatory, Igor Juran asks the question: “Aren’t people aware of each other in the same measure as they are of themselves?” Equating reality with virtuality, we are reducing life to simulation. Reducing the universe to the inside of a computer we agree on contracting our consciousness. Observing a sketch of two protagonist’s movement form Igor’s video work Jutarnji Program, a city map cut-out acquired over the Internet, led me to thinking of how our everyday trajectories from a point A to a point B significantly resemble digital representations – that which is possibly linear, without an interest for all that is not a (current) goal. “Who is that? I’ve no idea. I’m not programmed to know, care”. (from the text “Instructions for Rapprochement” by Barbara Vujanović)



Test!0 music programme summary

LUFT
An indie-rock trio from Zagreb set up in 2008. After only a few concerts, the outfit received many compliments both from the audience and the critics alike, who bestowed upon them the title of "the most pleasant surprise of the 2008". “Their weapons are fantastically rich musical arrangements, interweaved by polyphony of sounds that simply cannot be detached one from another, by stuffed, anthemic refrains and interesting gradations, as well as by the pure compact sound and riffs.”


DJ SANJIN
Journalist, poet, marketing manager of Dallas records, resident DJ of the rock club “Jabuka” where he performs under the name Franciska Svašta, and one of the favorite DJs of cultural events in Croatia. The audience has had the chance to hear him on various festivals such as ZFF, Motovun, ZagrebDox, Human rights, RAF... and he does a hell of a job when it comes to making people dance, with his mish-mash selections, predominantly of indie rock hits.

MUSICa
Vocal/instrumental duo comprised of the singer Elma and the pianist Paul. They started collaborating a few years ago after which they created a teamwork repertoire of jazz, pop and sevdah (a bosnian traditional folk music form) arranged in a jazzy/popish style. Elma has been in music almost her entire life, from her childhood and violin lessons, through solo singing in a choir INA with which she recorded several albums (one of the albums was even nominated for the most prestigious music award in Croatia, “Porin”), to singer-songwriter activies in jazzy-pop groups Inner and Tishina.
www.elmamusic.com

PETRA ANTOLIĆ KVINTET
A newly-born quintet will perform some of the most beautiful standards in the history of soul, blues, jazz and older r'n'b. The group is composed of top-quality musicians that are permanently present on the croatian musical scene. The members of the band are: Petra Antolić - vocal, Mario Torbica - bass, Filip Pavić - guitar, Filip Gjud - keyboard i Bruna Matić - drums.
http://www.myspace.com/petraantolic

FAR GO TRADERS
Electronic duo from Croatia formed 10 years ago by A Stunned Visitor, the one with a classical music education and the love for his electric guitar, and Kramar Zaibatsu, the one that apparently possesses no inborn sense of rhythm, inclined to his rusty computer and a broken tape recorder, who set the foundations of the aggregate that today bears the name of Far Go Traders. In their own words, they are mostly driven by the desire for fame, money and beautiful women, their purpose is to deprive as many sentient life forms in the vicinity, of their ability for critical thinking, as well as to increase the consumption activities… by playing dark jazzy, funky and bass heavy trip hop to cinematic breaks.
www.myspace.com/thelale

FUNK GURU
DJ and organizer of many musical and cultural happenings, one of the key people for the development and expansion of the electronic underground music in Croatia. He's been a member of the "Confusion" collective for more than 8 years; he performed at most of the most important musical festivals in the region such as Exit, Carnival in Rijeka, MTV Valkana, Elevate in Graz and Outlook. He also organizes the festivals "Illectricity" and "Illectric Funk" in Zagreb. We will have the oportunity to hear him play his non-standard DJ selection of instrumental, abstract beats.
www.myspace.com/confusionhr

GO MARS
A group from Osijek conceived at the end of 2008. Their trademarks are the lavish use of bass and electric guitar effects, on top of a groovy drum line. Their own description of their musical style is: psychodelic/alternative/rock/drum'n'bass/electronic.

DJ REA
A humble kid exploiting her position of the music programme director to perform at the festival. She's been DJ-ing for 5 years, she is a member of the "JabbaTon" collective from Zagreb, she is a veteran of more that 200 gigs in 4 countries and many musical and cultural festivals. Her sets are characterised by the mash-up musical selection from booty bass, baile funk and nu rave to dubstep, hip-hop and '90s hits.
www.myspace.com/rea_profile

HEMENDEX
A quartet of industrious bees whose past is tied to many bands and projects, while their present and future is a synthetic mix of everything and anything they like to call "nu wave". Created as a unit at the end of 2008, last summer they thrilled the audience as an opening act for the UK band Ladytron. They are eagerly awaiting release of their first piece of seven-inch plastic, which will bear the name "RESET 1"
www.hmndx.com

MLADI LJUDI
A DJ duo from Belgrade founded in 2007 and made up of one philosophy student and one graphic design student. Up until now they performed in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their musical selection consists of rave, dubstep, fidget house, and lately from syles called New Weird America and Kosmik Disko.
www.myspace.com/mladiljudi

ANALOGUE KLASH
DJ duo based in Central Europe, although its members hail from Venezuela and Portugal. The idea for their project arose at the Hartera festival in Rijeka, under the influence of the artists Boys Noise and Alex Metric who performed there. In the short span of their existence, The Analogue Clash performed in clubs and at art exhibitions in Slovenia and Germany and their goal is to clash the analogue spirit with the music of their favourite artists and their own creations in an era of the digital.
http://www.myspace.com/analogueklash

DJ IVAN KRŽELJ-MUSIKFANTASTIQUE
A true seasoned veteran of DJ-ing, he is the founder of programs such as Déjà vu and Muzik Fantastique, which he describes as a retroactive-audiovisual happening through post-punk new wave darkwave synth-pop ebm electro music, having the intention to create a certain retrospective of independent dance music of the ‘80s.
http://www.myspace.com/muzikfantastique

VJs:
UTO-VJ Not
SRI-Igor Lusic
CET-Tanja Minarik
PET-Hemendex, Bakka
SUB – Ivan Krželj



Test!0 conference programme summary

International Conference “Student Theatre and Political Activism”
Student Centre “Cvjetno naselje”, conference
March, 24th to 26th, 2010
Zagreb (Croatia)

During the last two decades the demand for active social and political engagement in art has become one of the most urgent ones. Reasons are many and diverse, from the ecological to antiglobalist ones, but they successfully summon artists from various fields. However, while conceptual, performance and video artists demonstrate strong political awareness and readiness, most of the theatre artists yield to the inertia of their field, reacting slowly, if at all. Can students change this? This conference seeks to provide a platform for the exchange of practices and experiences relating to social and political activism among student theatre groups at the university. Our aim is to analyse recent initiatives and reveal innovative approaches to theatre as a vehicle of social change and political statement.

The key questions of conference are:
Does theatre has the power to make a change? If so, do students recognize it?
Are they willing to use it? Is there a need to use it?
What can we learn from other artistic practices?

The conference welcomes all people involved in theatre, theory or practice.




Test!0 workshops summary

MASKA – RELJEF NUTRINE

workshop, performans, exibition

Kruna Tarle

This interactive and intermedial project is simutaneously taking place in three different areaes.

In the first area lump of clay, set on a table, is permanently transformed, that goes from hand to hand of random participants. With their eyes closed, they impress in the material auto/portrait, guided solely by internal impulses. Variable "map" of the face in this raw material, is photographed, and that way we collect the material for the exhibition. Fluid images – reliefs of a short life, is being decant from hand to hand, from the form in form. Limitations of materials (substances), and yet their inexhaustance, inconsumness and eternal change of forms has allusive character. Commitment of the individual and singularity of the time period is in contrast with offered and omnipresent  model of the ego.

In the second area there is "ceremony" of taking plaster casts of faces, so that would be another way of reaching the inner, the true face as one confrented to the outward, retouched, superficial and willingly chosen.

The third way and turning to inward is the process of drawing croquies of faces/masks in the technique coal on paper. "Factory" of faces, such as lifetime and inexhaustabile  graphics fingerprints, continuously fills the walls of the gallery.

The exhibition therefore is not something pre-prepared, and defined. It creates and grows from day to day, it is alive and - shared.

Performance includes mime form with masks, tactile communication only, and so is mentaly closing cycle of the theme development.

The project is simultaniouesly workshop, exhibition and theater, everything that is happening gets theatrical augury, partly because those who would be only spectators are not present.

SILENT DIALOG

BUTOH DANCE WORKSHOP

Ryuzo Fukuhara

Fukuhara has led numerous workshops in Europe in order to promote Butoh as a dance form. His workshops are based on his own training methods while also incorporating techniques developed by Min Tanaka and Sankai Juku. Rather than teaching participants professional dance techniques, Silent Dialogue aims to create an enhanced relationship between physical movement and the imagination. Fukuhara supports participants in finding their own movements and exploring their unique relationship between mind and body.

What to wear, what to bring? Comfortable, loose clothing, a yoga mat or blanket to use for stretching exercises and - water.