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Una Bauer is a theatre scholar and writer based in Croatia. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interests include dance, physical theatre and experimental performative practices, history of ideas, theories of affect, networked publics, public sphere, travel writing, community, death studies and crime fiction. She is assistant professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb). She writes theatre and dance reviews, analysis, travelogues and essays, which have been published and radio broadcasted in Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Italy, Canada and UK. Her first book on theatre and everything else, including tea cosies and bicycles, Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (Come Closer: on Theatre and other Joys) was published in 2015. Her second book BADco.: Vježbanje nemogućeg (BADco.: Practicing the Impossible), a series of in-depth interviews with BADco. members was published in 2021.
Una Bauer je po završetku studija komparativne književnosti i filozofije nekoliko godina radila u Centru za dramsku umjetnost kao asistentica za kazališni program te objavljivala tekstove o kazalištu i plesu u raznim publikacijama. Zahvaljujući stipendiji za doktorat, preselila se u London gdje je živjela od rujna 2006. do početka 2010. Na Queen Mary University of London doktorirala je s tezom o ideji neutralnosti u suvremenom plesnom kazalištu. Po povratku u Zagreb počela je predavati na Odsjeku dramaturgije pri Akademiji dramske umjetnosti. Tekstove najčešće objavljuje na portalu kulturpunkt.hr ili u časopisu Gordogan jer podržava temeljito razumijevanje kulture i umjetnosti koje zastupaju. Objavila je knjigu o kazalištu i svemu ostalom, uključujući džemperiće za čajnik i bicikle, Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (Novi Gordogan, 2015.) Objavila je također i knjigu dubinskih intervjua sa članovima skupine BADco., pod naslovom BADco. : Vježbanje nemogućeg (Centar za dramsku umjetnost i Umjetnička organizacija Oaza, 2021.).
Una Bauer was born in 1978, and died in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2007. She lives happily ever after.
Dr Una Bauer is assistant professor at the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb, Dramaturgy Department. She wrote her PhD thesis on the concept of the neutral in the works of contemporary choreographers Jérôme Bel, Thomas Lehmen, Raimund Hoghe and the company BADco. Her first book Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (2015) was published in Biblioteka Gordogan, editor Branko Matan. Her second book of in-depth interviews with members of BADco. (BADco. :Vježbanje nemogućeg) was published in 2021. She is currently convening and teaching courses Theatre & Politics; Perfomance, Internet and Social Networks, Dance and Theory; Tragedy and Popular Culture; Emotions and Affects in Performing Arts at the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. From 2011 till 2014 she was teaching and convening graduate courses Postdramatic Theatre and Dramaturgy of Performance at Acting and Media Course at University of Rijeka. In 2014 she taught at Academy for theatre, radio film and television in Ljubljana, course Contemporary Dance Theories. Together with Helena Wikström she created a travelogue project Hide and/or Reveal which was presented, in various formats (booklet, exhibition in a gallery, exhibition on a bus) in Zagreb (2014 and 2016), in San Sebastián (2016) and in Gdansk (2017). (Together with Marjana Krajač, she curated a series of talks in the framework of Dance Week Festival 2013 entitled: Today I did not die so beautifully. Together with Nicholas Ridout, she organized a symposium Politics of Spectatorship (2011). In 2013 (January – March), she was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). She taught a seminar on empathy in the framework of MA program of University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm (November 2012), and lectured in the framework of Dance Authorship MA SODA in Berlin (November 2010). She was a writing supervisor on the project Criticize this (2011-2012) where she worked closely for a year with emerging theatre critics on their reviews, together with Ivan Medenica. She took part in the project Corners of Europe as a researcher, and official blogger for the Balkan Expedition. She was a PhD student in Dance and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, where she also taught three courses: London, Culture, Performance; Dance Theatre (with Martin Welton) and Director’s Theatre. Her research was fully funded by the Vice Chancellor of the University of London. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her theatre and dance reviews, analysis and other types of texts have been published in various Croatian, Slovenian, Italian, Romanian, Canadian and UK journals, magazines, newspapers, web portals, and broadcasted on radio programs. She was the dramaturge of and performed in D.B. Indoš’s Wolf Man and co-choreographed and performed in Group Gravity’s raster/koža/val. Together with Thomas Lehmen, she held a performance workshop in the framework of Schwere Reiter (2008) in Munich. She was a co-ordinator of PSi15 in Zagreb and the co-ordinator of PSi15 follow-up in Rijeka. Together with Marin Blažević, she edited PSi15 DVD for Performance Research. She was the editorial assistant of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge) from 2006 till 2009. From 2003 till 2006 she was the office manager and assistant for performing arts of Centre for Drama Arts (CDU) in Zagreb. She is one of the collaborators on the academic project Narrating Fear funded by Croatian Science Foundation, led by Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. She is the editor of Theory Editions of Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. She is on the editorial board of performing arts journal Frakcija, cultural magazine Gordogan and Performance Research. She was the member of Croatian Association of Independent Artists from 2014 till 2016. She translates from and to English, both fiction and theory.
Dr. sc. Una Bauer docentica je na Odsjeku dramaturgije na Akademiji dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Prva joj je knjiga, Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima objavljena u Biblioteci Gordogan 2015. (urednik Branko Matan). Druga knjiga, serija dubinskih intervjua sa članovima skupine BADco. pod naslovom BADco. : Vježbanje nemogućeg (Centar za dramsku umjetnost i Umjetnička organizacija Oaza) objavljena je 2021. Doktorirala je 2011. na ideji neutralnosti u radovima Jérômea Bela, Thomasa Lehmena, Raimunda Hoghea i BADco, na Odsjeku za dramu i kazalište sveučilišta Queen Mary, University of London. Predaje kolegije Kazalište i politika; Izvedba, Internet i društvene mreže, Ples i teorija, Tragedija i popularna kultura te Emocije i afekti u izvedbenim umjetnostima na Akademiji dramskih umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Za doktorski studij u Londonu dobila je punu trogodišnju stipendiju zamjenika rektora Londonskog sveučilišta (iste godine ponuđena joj je i jednogodišnja stipendija OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship na Oxfordskom sveučilištu koju je odbila kako bi prihvatila ponudu Londonskog sveučilišta). Od 2011. do 2014. predavala je i kolegije Uvod u dramaturgiju izvedbe i Postdramsko kazalište na diplomskom studiju Gluma i mediji Sveučilišta u Rijeci, a 2014. na Akademiji za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo u Ljubljani predavala je kolegij Suvremene plesne teorije. Predavala je kolegije Režijsko kazalište, Plesno kazalište i London, kultura, izvedba na sveučilištu Queen Mary 2008. i 2009. Bila je pomoćnica urednika akademskog časopisa Contemporary Theatre Review kojeg izdaje Routledge (2006-2009). Kazališne i plesne kritike i analize, te razni intervjui, objavljeni su joj u časopisima Gordogan, Vijenac, Zarez, Kretanja, britanskom časopisu Performance research, slovenskom časopisu Maska, srpskom časopisu Teatron, talijanskom Biblioteca teatrale, rumunjskom Observator Cultural, radio emisiji Kazalištarije (Odeon), dnevnim novinama Jutarnji list i Dnevnik te web portalima Kulturpunkt i Kupus. Bila je jedan od koordinatora svjetske akademske konferencije PSi15 u Zagrebu (2009) i glavni koordinator PSi15 follow-up u Rijeci (2010). Zajedno s Helenom Wikström realizirala je putopisni projekt Skriveno/Razotkriveno koji je, u nekoliko varijanti (knjižica, izložba u galeriji, izložba na redovnoj autobusnoj liniji) prezentiran u Zagrebu (2014 i 2016), San Sebastiánu (2016) i Gdansku (2017). Zajedno s Marinom Blaževićem, uredila je DVD s kazališnim prilozima koji je objavljen uz jedno izdanje časopisa Performance Research. Uredila je broj časopisa za izvedbene umjetnosti Frakcija 58/59: To be moved (2011) te 68/69: Umjetnost i novac zajedno s Vesnom Vuković. Zajedno s Nicholasom Ridoutom, organizirala je simpozij Politike gledateljstva (2011). Zajedno s Marjanom Krajač, organizirala je seriju razgovora Danas nisam umrla tako lijepo, u sklopu Tjedna suvremenog plesa (2013). Sudjelovala je kao dramaturg i izvođač u Čovjeku Vuku D.B.Indoša. Zajedno s Thomasom Lehmenom, držala je kazališnu radionicu posvećenu ideji neutralnosti u kazalištu u sklopu festivala Schwere Reiter 2008. u Münchenu. Bila je izvršni producent dviju predstava BADco. (Deleted messages i Fleshdance). Od 2003 do 2006. bila je voditelj ureda i asistent za izvedbene umjetnosti Centra za dramsku umjetnost (CDU). Diplomirala je komparativnu književnost i filozofiju na Filozofskom Fakultetu u Zagrebu 2002. Urednica je teorijske biblioteke Akademije dramske umjetnosti od 2018. Suradnica je na znanstvenom projektu Naracije straha: od starih zapisa do nove usmenosti, pod vodstvom Instituta za etnologiju i folkloristiku (projekt financira HRZZ). U uredništvu je časopisa Frakcija, Gordogan i u uredničkom savjetu časopisa Performance Research. Članica je Hrvatskog društva kazališnih kritičara i teatrologa i Društva hrvatskih književnih prevodilaca te, a od 2014. do 2016. bila je član Hrvatske zajednice samostalnih umjetnika. Prevodi s engleskog i na engleski, beletristiku i stručnu literaturu.
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Work
2022 november “Izvedbe marginaliziranih skupina”, predavanje, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 14 november 2022
2022 october study visit to Stockholm University of the Arts, Dance Department, Academic Mobility Grant, University of Zagreb, 10-14 October 2022
2022 october “The footnote migrating: writing, curating and mint growing” – workshop within the Composting section – Freestanding Course: Curatorial Practice and Context (july-december 2022), online, 6 October 2022
2022 july Artistic freedom in Europe Today: From the Personal to the Political: A discussion group, Bunker, Stara Elektrarna, Ljubljana, 6 July 2022
2022 july Kritička dramaturgija: Pisati u množini, razgovor sa Bojanom Janković, Agatom Juniku, Goranom Pavlićem i Jasnom Jasnom Žmak, moderirala Hana Sirovica, Booksa, Zagreb, 2 July 2022
2022 may, predstavljanje zbornika COVID 19 u humanističkoj perspektivi, sa Tanjom Bukovčan, Irenom Matijašević i Ines Prica, 17 May 2022
2022 january, “Izvedba i društvene mreže”, predavanje, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 17 January 2022
2021 november, predstavljanje BADco.:Vježbanje nemogućeg, sa Anom Kreitmeyer, Nikolinom Pristaš i Sergejem Pristašem, u sklopu programa Refleks, Filodrammatica, Drugo more, Rijeka, 19 November 2021
2021 october, “Prijedlog novog studijskog programa “Izvedba u kontekstu””, izlaganje sa Nikolinom Pristaš, How To Do Things With Context, konferencija, Akademija dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u suradnji s Pogon – Zagrebačkim centrom za kulturu i mlade, Operacijom grad i Kulturnom organizacijom – NIIT, 22-23 October 2021
2021 october, “Ballet and its future”, conversation with Mihaela Devald, “Priprema, pozor… knjižnica! Tijelo, pokret, ples”: seminar za knjižničarke i knjižničare te širu javnost, Knjižnica S.S.Kranjčevića, Zagreb, 1 October 2021
2021 september “Ambivalent emotional registers of subversive affirmation: Janez Janša case”, conference paper, 18th Congress of International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR): Encountering emotions in folk narrative and folklife, 5-8 September 2021, 8 September 2021
2021 june, “On sensoriality of asynchronous and synchronous but mediated experiences: two case studies”, Gledališče, ples in performans po COVID-19: Med trenutno pogubo in priložnostmi za prohodnost, Mednarodni simpozij Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije DGKTS, 22 June 2021
2020 december, “Kazališna kritika – predavanje i radionica”, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 14 & 21 December 2020
2020 november, organisation board, How to do things with Contexts, online seminar in the framework of Curating in Context Erasmus + project, 24-27 November 2020.
2020 september, organizacijski odbor konferencije “COVID-19 u humanističkoj perspektivi: mutacije straha i kulturne promjene”, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 28-30. rujan 2020.
2020 september workshop “Dictionary of anger and frustration”, in the framework of Summer School Curating in Context, 3 September 2020
2020 june sudjelovanje u radu žirija za nagradu Mila Dimitrijević, s Natašom Govedić i Leom Rafoltom
2020 june Book Launch: Nepotisnuta subjektivnost: pojmovnik kritike izvedbenih umjetnosti, ur. Marija Krnić i Lujo Parežanin (Zagreb: Kurziv i Kulturtreger, 2019.), with Dinko Kreho i Kaja Kraner, Booksa, Zagreb, 24 June 2020.
2019 october “O evaluaciji”, pozvano predavanje, Formatirati kritiko: mednarodni simpozij, 54. festival Borštnikovo srečanje v sodelovanju z Društvom gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, 24. October 2019.
2019 november & december Radionice analize kazališnih predstava, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 20. 11., 4. 12. & 18.12.
2019 october Book launch: Jasna Jasna Žmak’s Predavanje kao izvedba, izvedba kao predavanje: o proizvodnji znanja u umjetnosti, with Goran Pavlić
2019 may ‘Emocionalni management, odnosi moći i intimnost u seriji The Girlfriend Experience, prva sezona’, predavanje/seminar, Kreativni kritički laboratorij: zašto feminizam?, izvannastavni obrazovni modul, Akademija dramske umjetnosti & Centar za ženske studije, 18 April – 16 May 2019, 2 May 2019
2019 april ‘A Quadrilogue on Quadrilogue’, conference paper, with Agata Juniku, Jasna Žmak i Goran Pavlić, Innovative Methodologies: International Art & Science Conference, ADU, Zagreb, 9-11 April 2019
2019 april Performance Analysis Workshop, Mladinsko Showcase 2019, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, Ljubljana, 4-7 April 2019
2019 march Book Launch: Goran Sergej Pristaš’s Exploded Gaze, with Bojana Kunst and Stephen Zepke, ADU Zagreb, 22 March 2019
2018 november ‘Reprezentacije manjinskog u suvremenom hrvatskom kazalištu i drami’, conference paper, together with Agata Juniku and Goran Pavlić, ‘From Mobility to Interaction: (Re)visions of Drama and Theatre in Yugoslavia and New Playwright-theatrical Productions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia’, Katowice, The Department of Theory and Literature and Translation in the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, 7-9 November 2018
2018 october Book Launch: Željko Zorica Šiš’s Die Freundschaften, with Zvonimir Dobrović, 16. festival prvih: Doba praznine, Centar za kulturu na Peščenici KNAP, 28 September – 3 October 2018, 1 October 2018
2018 july ‘Transparency in BADco.’s production of The Stranger’, conference paper, International Federation for Theatre Research, World Congress Belgrade 2018: Theatre and Migration, 9-13 July 2018
2018 april Gledaonica i diskusija Black Miror: Nosedive, moderatori Mislav Živković i Marin Lisjak, govornice: Una Bauer i Lucija Klarić, 16 april 2018, uvod u konferenciju Književnost i internet – tekst u digitalnom dobu, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb, 19-22 april 2018
2018 april Radionica za odrasle: Pažljivi gledatelj, u sklopu programa Umjetnost pripada svakome, Knjižnica Silvija Strahimira Kranjčevića i Galerija Prozori, Zagreb, 5 april 2018
2018 march Theatre Between Politics and Policies: New Challenges, conference paper: Slučaj Olimp, sa Agatom Juniku, Goranom Pavlićem i Jasnom Jasnom Žmak, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, 23-24 March 2018
2017 october Naracije straha: istraživački uvidi, metodološki problemi i teorijski izazovi, conference paper ‘Postdramatic Tragedy and Fear: the Case of Societas Raffaello Sanzio’s Tragedia Endogonidia’, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 12 & 13 october 2017
2017 september Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art and Culture, Feminism: A Symposium in Honor of Nadežda Čačinovič, conference paper ‘The Ephemerality of (Dance) Performance: Critical Perspectives, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb, 29 & 30 september 2017
2017 june talk with Ramsay Burt about his book Ungoverning Dance, with Dina Ekštajn, Aleksandra Mišić, Lovorka Puk-Tomić and Iva Višak, in the framework of the international symposium The Turn, Booksa, Zagreb, 16 June
2017 june book launch Željko Zorica, Die Freundschaften: works 2010-2013 (Zagreb: Domino, 2017)
2017 june Performance Studies international 23: Overflow, Hamburg, conference paper ‘Online oversharing and impersonal engagement’, part of the panel Overshare, excess and expulsion: symptomatologies of the present in performance with Sophie Nield and Louise Owen, 11 June
2017 may sudjelovanje na okruglom stolu Kome (ne) treba kritika? (Kurziv, Kulturtreger, SCCA-Ljubljana, Kontrapunkt), Magacin, Beograd, 27 May
2017 may Hide or Reveal (exhibition on a city bus, with Helena Wikström), bus line running through Gdansk, Corners project, 20-21 May
2017 may International participative and participatory conference Za Hranou/Over the Edge: risk, fear and courage in (theatre) creation, Palacky University, Olomouc, 13-14 May
2017 april ‘Collaboratively Scripted Performances of Life Events’, conference paper, Narratology and its Discontents: Narrating Beyond Narration, Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb, 6-8 April
2016 november Društvene igre i digitalni tekstualni kolektivi, radionica u sklopu edukativnog projekta Digitalni artefakti i nesigurne mreže u organizaciji OZAFIN ALU i POGON, 8 November
2016 september – october Hide or Reveal (exhibition on a city bus, with Helena Wikström), bus line running through Amara area of San Sebastian, Corners project / Donostia / San Sebastian 2016 European Capital of Culture’s Hazitegiak programme, 19 September – 2 October
2016 may Hide or Reveal (exhibition with Helena Wikström), project in the framework of Corners of Europe, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
2016 may ‘Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’, predavanje, Filozofska škola: Tragedija i bit kazališta, ADU & Odjel za filozofiju Matice Hrvatske, Grožnjan, Croatia, 15-22 May
2016 april ‘Kazalište kao prošireni medij’, moderacija okruglog stola, Knjižnica S.S. Kranjčevića, Zagreb, 8 April
2016 march, prijedlog projekta za interaktivni kulturni centar u Vodicama – Kuća umjetnosti na vodi (arhitekt Vinko Peračić), Gradska uprava Vodica i Pučko otvoreno učilšte (zajedno sa Danijelom Stepić, Zrinkom Užbinec, Milom Pavićević i Ninom Gojić), prezentacija 26 March, Vodice
2015 december ‘Subverzivna afirmancija, intenziteti ambivalencije i uzorci društvenosti’, nastupno predavanje za izbor u zvanje docenta, Akademija dramske umjetnosti, Zagreb, 3 December
2015 november Kolokvij o kritici, ‘Interdisciplinarnost u kritici’, uvodničar i moderator okruglog stola, Kulturpunkt/Kurziv & Kulturtreger/Booksa, 5 & 6 November, Zagreb
2015 october Working dramaturgy: on artistic actions and social imaginings, research salon, 19 & 20 October, Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb
2015 september – november sudjelovanje u radu Povjerenstva za procjenu prijava, Zaklada Kultura Nova
2015 march Identity.Move! Research Platform for Contemporary Dance in the Eastern Belt of the European Union, ‘Strategies for Problematizing Identity in the Eastern European Arts’, lecture performance, 19 March, Prague
2014 september Food, location and performance – writing on performance workshop, 4-7 September, Drugo more, Rijeka
2014 august Pitfalls of Participatory Art, round table discussion in the framework of Mladi Levi festival, moderator, 26 August, Mestna Elektrarna, Ljubljana
2014 june – An old girl faster than a horse – a lecture performance – card game with Ksenija Stevanović, as a part of the exhibition named Flamme eternelle of the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014 january – june Online Contents Curator PSi Fluid States 2015 Weblog
2013 december – performing arts journal Frakcija 68/69: Art and Money (winter 2013), issue editor (with Vesna Vuković)
2013 november – december Cultural workers discussions ( a series of round table discussions curated with Marko Kostanić), concept and organization: Hard candies and breadcrumbs of performance archives (8 November 2013, Booksa) and Kiss the rabbit: social dynamics of online activism and performance of identity, moderator (14 December 2013)
2013 may – june a series of talks in the framework of Dance Week Festival entitled Today I did not die so beautifully, curator (with Marjana Krajač), 29 May – 2 June, Zagreb Dance Centre
2013 april symposium Art and Money (with Vesna Vuković), 20 April, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb
2012 november – Seminar: On Empathy, University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, 19-24 November
2012 november – present, Balkan Express Network, Sustainability in the Arts, documentation and blog
2012 october conference curator for IETM annual meeting in Zagreb, 25 – 28 October, Student Centre Zagreb
2012 june – december editor, BalCan Contemporary
2012 july – october supervisor for performing arts criticism, module 3, project Criticize this
2012 may member of the international critics’ jury (IATC jury) of Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad, 25 May – 2 June
2012 april Corners of Europe project, research trip 14 April – 30 April, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012 march – june supervisor for performing arts criticism, module 2, project Criticize this
2011 performing arts journal Frakcija: to be moved, 58/59 (spring-summer 2011), issue editor
2011 november symposium The Politics of Spectatorship (Politike gledateljstva), POGON, Zagreb, 25 – 27 november, initiator and coordinator (with Nicholas Ridout)
2011 october Corners of Europe project, research trip 27 september – 12 october, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan
2010 october 10 days 1 unity LAB, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 25 October – 3 November
2010 august Performance Studies international follow-up, Rijeka, 2-5 September 2010, coordinator
2010 june DVD supplement (on PSi15) to Performance Research: MISPerformance, 15 (June 2010), edited together with Marin Blažević
2009 june Performance Studies international 15, Zagreb, a member of the Organising Committee; on-site coordinator – papers & panels program
2008 november Workshop/Seminar (with Thomas Lehmen), Schwere Reiter: Tanz/Theatre/Musik, Munich, 31 October – 2 November
2006 – 2009 editorial assistant, Contemporary Theatre Review
2005 – 2006 workshop and pitching forum coordinator, documentary film festival ZagrebDox
2004 – theatre and dance critic for daily financial papers Dnevnik
2004 – together with Vesna Vuković, Ivana Ivković and Emina Višnić, edited an issue of performing arts journal Frakcija on public space
2004 – june 2005 executive producer of the independent performing unit BADco.
2003 – march 2006 office manager and assistant for performing arts in Centre for Drama Art, administrator of the performing arts journal Frakcija
2001 – present writes theatre, dance and literature analysis, essays and reviews for cultural magazines Zarez, Vijenac, Kretanja, Gordogan, daily papers Dnevnik and Jutarnji list (2005 & 2006), web portal kulturpunkt and radio program specialised for theatre Kazalistarije (Odeon)
2002 – 2003 editor-in-chief’s assistant, cultural magazine Gordogan
2001 – 2002 librarian, Women Studies library
Teaching
2022 – present Emocije, afekti i izvedbene umjetnosti, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
2020 – present Osnove teorije književnosti, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
2019 – present Tragedy and Popular Culture, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
2015 – present Performance, Internet and Social Media, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb
2014 – present Dance and Theory 1 & 2, Academy of Dramatic Art, Dance Department, University of Zagreb
2014 march – june – Contemporary Dance Theories, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 march – june – Introduction to Dramaturgy of Performance, University of Rijeka: Acting and Media (graduate program)
2013- present Theatre & Politics, Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb, 2nd-5th year
2013 Postdramatic Theatre, University of Rijeka: Acting, Media and Culture Studies (postgraduate program)
2011 november – 2012 february Dramaturgy of Performance, University of Rijeka: Acting, Media and Culture Studies (postgraduate program)
2009 september – december Director’s Theatre, QMUL, 3rd year
2008 september – december London, Culture, Performance, QMUL, 1st year
2008 september – december Dance Theatre (with Martin Welton), QMUL, 2nd year
Conferences, lectures & round table discussions
2022 november “Izvedbe marginaliziranih skupina”, predavanje, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 14 november 2022
2022 october “At exactly 11.03 AM, I started watching gay gangbang sex swing porn video that lasted for 24 minutes 45 seconds, third one listed for the search: “gay gangbang” on redtube.com”, lecture within the framework of SHK Dance Open Lectures, 13 October 2002
2022 july Artistic freedom in Europe Today: From the Personal to the Political: A discussion group, Bunker, Stara Elektrarna, Ljubljana, 6 July 2022
2022 july Kritička dramaturgija: Pisati u množini, razgovor sa Bojanom Janković, Agatom Juniku, Goranom Pavlićem i Jasnom Jasnom Žmak, moderirala Hana Sirovica, Booksa, Zagreb, 2 July 2022
2022 may, predstavljanje zbornika COVID 19 u humanističkoj perspektivi, sa Tanjom Bukovčan, Irenom Matijašević i Ines Prica, 17 May 2022
2022 january, “Izvedba i društvene mreže”, predavanje, Kulturpunktova novinarska školica, 17 January 2022
2021 november, predstavljanje BADco.:Vježbanje nemogućeg, sa Anom Kreitmeyer, Nikolinom Pristaš i Sergejem Pristašem, u sklopu programa Refleks, Filodrammatica, Drugo more, Rijeka, 19 November 2021
2021 october, “Prijedlog novog studijskog programa “Izvedba u kontekstu””, izlaganje sa Nikolinom Pristaš, How To Do Things With Context, konferencija, Akademija dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u suradnji s Pogon – Zagrebačkim centrom za kulturu i mlade, Operacijom grad i Kulturnom organizacijom – NIIT, 22-23 October 2021
2021 october, “Ballet and its future”, conversation with Mihaela Devald, “Priprema, pozor… knjižnica! Tijelo, pokret, ples”: seminar za knjižničarke i knjižničare te širu javnost, Knjižnica S.S.Kranjčevića, Zagreb, 1 October 2021
2021 september “Ambivalent emotional registers of subversive affirmation: Janez Janša case”, conference paper, 18th Congress of International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR): Encountering emotions in folk narrative and folklife, 5-8 September 2021, 8 September 2021
2021 june, “On sensoriality of asynchronous and synchronous but mediated experiences: two case studies”, Gledališče, ples in performans po COVID-19: Med trenutno pogubo in priložnostmi za prohodnost, Mednarodni simpozij Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije DGKTS, 22 June 2021
2020 june Book Launch: Nepotisnuta subjektivnost: pojmovnik kritike izvedbenih umjetnosti, ur. Marija Krnić i Lujo Parežanin (Zagreb: Kurziv i Kulturtreger, 2019.), with Dinko Kreho i Kaja Kraner, Booksa, Zagreb, 24 June 2020.
2019 october “O evaluaciji”, pozvano predavanje, Formatirati kritiko: mednarodni simpozij, 54. festival Borštnikovo srečanje v sodelovanju z Društvom gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, 24 October 2019.
2019 october Book launch: Jasna Jasna Žmak’s Predavanje kao izvedba, izvedba kao predavanje: o proizvodnji znanja u umjetnosti, with Goran Pavlić
2019 may ‘Emocionalni management, odnosi moći i intimnost u seriji The Girlfriend Experience, prva sezona’, predavanje/seminar, Kreativni kritički laboratorij: zašto feminizam?, izvannastavni obrazovni modul, Akademija dramske umjetnosti & Centar za ženske studije, 18 April – 16 May 2019, 2 May 2019
2019 april ‘A Quadrilogue on Quadrilogue’, conference paper, with Agata Juniku, Jasna Žmak i Goran Pavlić, Innovative Methodologies: International Art & Science Conference, ADU, Zagreb, 9-11 April 2019
2019 march Book Launch: Goran Sergej Pristaš’s Exploded Gaze, with Bojana Kunst and Stephen Zepke, ADU Zagreb, 22 March 2019
2018 november ‘Reprezentacije manjinskog u suvremenom hrvatskom kazalištu i drami’, conference paper, together with Agata Juniku and Goran Pavlić, ‘From Mobility to Interaction: (Re)visions of Drama and Theatre in Yugoslavia and New Playwright-theatrical Productions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia’, Katowice, The Department of Theory and Literature and Translation in the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, 7-9 November 2018
2018 october Book Launch: Željko Zorica Šiš’s Die Freundschaften, with Zvonimir Dobrović, 16. festival prvih: Doba praznine, Centar za kulturu na Peščenici KNAP, 28 September – 3 October 2018, 1 October 2018
2018 july ‘Transparency in BADco.’s production of The Stranger’, paper, International Federation for Theatre Research, World Congress Belgrade 2018: Theatre and Migration, 9-13 July 2018
2018 april Gledaonica i diskusija Black Miror: Nosedive, moderatori Mislav Živković i Marin Lisjak, govornice: Una Bauer i Lucija Klarić, 16 april 2018, uvod u konferenciju Književnost i internet – tekst u digitalnom dobu, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb, 19-22 april 2018
2018 march Theatre Between Politics and Policies: New Challenges, izlaganje: Slučaj Olimp, sa Agatom Juniku, Goranom Pavlićem i Jasnom Jasnom Žmak, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, 23-24 March 2018
2017 october ‘Tanka granica stvarnosnog’, pozvano izlaganje u sklopu Tribine IEF-a, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 31. listopada 2017
2017 october Naracije straha: istraživački uvidi, metodološki problemi i teorijski izazovi, conference paper ‘Postdramatic Tragedy and Fear: the Case of Societas Raffaello Sanzio’s Tragedia Endogonidia’, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 12 & 13 october 2017
2017 september Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art and Culture, Feminism: A Symposium in Honor of Nadežda Čačinovič, conference paper ‘The Ephemerality of (Dance) Performance: Critical Perspectives, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb, 29 & 30 september 2017
2017 june talk with Ramsay Burt about his book Ungoverning Dance, with Dina Ekštajn, Aleksandra Mišić, Lovorka Puk-Tomić and Iva Višak, in the framework of the international symposium The Turn, Booksa, Zagreb, 16 June
2017 june book launch Željko Zorica, Die Freundschaften: works 2010-2013 (Zagreb: Domino, 2017)
2017 june Performance Studies international 23: Overflow, Hamburg, conference paper ‘Online oversharing and impersonal engagement’, part of the panel Overshare, excess and expulsion: symptomatologies of the present in performance with Sophie Nield and Louise Owen, 11 June
2017 may sudjelovanje na okruglom stolu Kome (ne) treba kritika? (Kurziv, Kulturtreger, SCCA-Ljubljana, Kontrapunkt), Magacin, Beograd, 27 May
2017 may International participative and participatory conference Za Hranou/Over the Edge: risk, fear and courage in (theatre) creation, Palacky University, Olomouc, 13-14 May
2017 april ‘Collaboratively Scripted Performances of Life Events’, conference paper, Narratology and its Discontents: Narrating Beyond Narration, Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb, 6-8 April
2016 may ‘Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’, predavanje, Filozofska škola: Tragedija i bit kazališta, ADU & Odjel za filozofiju Matice Hrvatske, Grožnjan, Croatia, 15-22 May
2016 april ‘Kazalište kao prošireni medij’, moderacija okruglog stola, Knjižnica S.S. Kranjčevića, Zagreb, 8 April
2015 december ‘Subverzivna afirmancija, intenziteti ambivalencije i uzorci društvenosti’, nastupno predavanje za izbor u zvanje docenta, Akademija dramske umjetnosti, Zagreb, 3 December
2015 november Kolokvij o kritici, ‘Interdisciplinarnost u kritici’, uvodničar i moderator okruglog stola, Kulturpunkt/Kurziv & Kulturtreger/Booksa, 5 & 6 November, Zagreb
2015 october Working dramaturgy: on artistic actions and social imaginings, research salon, 19 & 20 October, Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb
2015 march Identity.Move! Research Platform for Contemporary Dance in the Eastern Belt of the European Union, ‘Strategies for Problematizing Identity in the Eastern European Arts’, lecture performance, 19 March, Prague
2014 august Pitfalls of Participatory Art, round table discussion in the framework of Mladi Levi festival, moderator, 26 August, Mestna Elektrarna, Ljubljana
2014 january Kulturpunkt’s School of Media, ‘Exercises in watching performance’, 7 January 2014
2013 december, Kulturpunkt’s School of Media, ‘On performance’, 17 december 2013
2013 december, ‘Kiss the rabbit: social dynamics of online activism and performance of identity’, Booksa book club, round table discussion (moderator), 14 december 2013
2013 july, Liminality of artistic practices, round table discussion, Lauba, Zagreb, 9 July
2013 may Političko kazalište, round table discussion in the framework of the 20 International Small Scene Theatre Festival, Rijeka, 11 May
2012 december Kulturpunkt’s School of Media, ‘On performance’, 3 and 5 December 2012
2012 october Where is My Jetpack?, paper, International European Theatre Meeting conference, Zagreb
2012 may Theatre Critique Workshop and Public Discussion about Theatre Critique in the Region, Sterijino Pozorje Festival, 28 May 2012
2011 may Performance Studies international 17, Utrecht, conference paper ‘The time to come has long time passed’, 26 May 2011
2011 may net.kulturni klub mama, Zagreb, ‘Europsko plesno kazalište 90-tih i 00-tih i ideja neutralnosti’, 18 may 2011
2010 november MA Soda, Berlin University of the Arts, ‘Social media & dramaturgy’, lecture & seminar, 10 November 2010
2010 september Performance Studies international follow-up, Rijeka, shift Matters of fact / Matters of concern, ‘Performance as an affective service: a feeling of being confused about what one is feeling’, 2 September 2010
2010 may Reflective dramaturgy: dramaturgy syposium, Maska, Ljubljana, ‘The dramaturg as a negotiator or a mediator’, 16 May 2010
2010 april Odsjek za filozofiju i Hrvatsko društvo za analitičku filozofiju, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, ‘The Representational Game of the Stage Zero of Signification in the Performance ‘Jérôme Bel’, 27 April 2010
2010 april, Non-institutional theatre in the region, roundtable discussion, Drugo more, Rijeka, 21 April 2010
2009 november Transwarp Belgrade 2009, ‘Affects in the discourse on dance: comparison UK & Croatia’
2009 september TaPRA, co-convenor of the group Directors/Collectives
2009 august The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cologne, conference paper ‘Thomas Lehmen and the idea of singularity’
2009 june Performance Studies International 15, Zagreb, conference paper ‘Thomas Lehmen: neutralizing the personal and the impersonal’
2008 october lecture in the framework of the Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice and Dissemination, ‘On neutrality’, L’animal a l’esquena, Fundació Universitat de Girona, 4 October 2008
2008 may postgraduate research conference: Dialogue, Nottingham Trent University, 23 May, conference paper ‘The movement of embodied thought: the representational game of the stage zero of signification in Jérôme Bel’s performance Jérôme Bel’
2005 april ‘Chronique, médias, critique des arts de la scène en Europe’, Le Centre culturel de recontre du Grand Jardin, Haute-Marne, France, presentation of independent Croatian performing arts initiatives and authors
2005 december Body – Memory – Writing, Girona, Spain, presentation on Ivana Sajko’s play Mass for pre-election day silence, dead man behind the wall and hoof in the throat
2005 march mode05: towards a new educational model in dance & choreography, Fabrik Potsdam & Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Potsdam, Germany
Performances
2004 dramaturge and performer in Wolfsman by Damir Bartol Indos & collaborators; opening night 21 May 2004; supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture.
2002 co-choreographer and performer in raster/skin/wave by Group gravity, opening night Student centre gallery 5 January 2002. The performance was supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture. Performed at the festival Little front of new Croatian dance and performance (March 2002) and the
Festival of alternative theatre expression FAKI (May 2002).
Translations
2015 Dejan Kršić, ‘Fragments on the matter of New Collectivism’ in NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia, ed by. Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner ( Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova & MIT Press, 2015)
2010 Ekstravagantna tijela: ekstravagantni umovi, ur. Ivana Bago, Tihana Bertek et al. (Zagreb: Kontejner, 2010), str. 76-97, str. 239 – 253, str. 277-283 – translation to Croatian of Dušan I. Bjelić’s ‘Freud’s Self-Orientalism and the “Nazi Symptom” of Psychoanalysis’, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s ‘Making psychiatric history: madness as folie à plusieurs’ and Franco Berardi’s ‘Schizo-Economy’
2010 Quentin Tarantino i filozofija, ur. Richard Greene i K. Silem Mohammad (Zagreb: Jesenski & Turk, 2010), str.17-57 i str. 131-184 – translation to Croatian of Quentin Tarantino and philosophy, pp.17-57 and pp. 131-184, ed. by Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2007)
2008 Monty Python i filozofija, ur. George A. Reisch i Gary L. Hardcastle (Zagreb: Jesenski & Turk, 2008), 310 str. – translation to Croatian of Monty Python and Philosophy, ed. by George A. Reisch and Gary L. Hardcastle (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2006)
2006 Goran Petercol, Bez struje : retrospektiva crteža = unplugged: retrospective of drawings, ed by. Ariana Kralj, texts Ivana Sajko (Zagreb: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 2006) – translation to English
Grants & scholarships
Što je suvremeno u suvremenom hrvatskom kazalištu i filmu?, kratkoročna financijska potpora istraživanju za 2018., Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators – Visiting Fellows, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (January – March 2013)
Vice-Chancellor of University of London – full scholarship for a PhD research in performing arts at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London (2006-2009)
OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship for Masters in European Literature at University of Oxford in 2006/2007 – full scholarship (I declined the scholarship because I accepted the offer from Vice-Chancellor of University of London for a PhD research.)
ECUMEST Association, Bucharest – a grant for a week of meetings of performing arts journalists ‘Chronique, médias, critique des arts de la scène en Europe’, Le Centre culturel de recontre du Grand Jardin, Haute-Marne, France
Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University – a grant for the participation in the theatre management and international cooperation workshops in August 2004
French cultural institute, Zagreb – a grant for the CEMEA dance education workshop in Avignon in February 2004
S.T.E.P Beyond – European Cultural Foundation, a travel grant in support of the trip to annual IETM meeting in Birmingham in October 2003
Ministry of Culture, Croatia – a travel grant in support of the trip to IETM satellite meeting in Bergen in May 2003
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia – a scholarship for undergraduate studies in English language and literature and French language and literature
in 2003
Italian cultural institute, Zagreb – a grant for the study of Italian language in Florence in September 1996
Education
2006 – 2011 research PhD in Dance and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London
2004 – 2006 PhD in Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb (interrupted to pursue a PhD at QM and Royal Holloway)
1996 – 2002 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. BA (Hons) in Comparative Literature and Philosophy
Additional education/training
2020-2022 Propedeutika psihoterapije, Pučko otvoreno učilište Petar Zrinski
2019 august 3rd Hellenic Summer Psychodrama Academy, Kolympari, Crete, Greece, 1-6 August 2019
2019 july 5th Group Analytic Society International Summer School, Rijeka, 24-28 July 2019
2019 february – present Training for Group Therapist, Institute of Group Analysis, Zagreb
2018 february – september Introductory Course in Group Analysis, Institute of Group Analysis, Zagreb
2004 october observer, project The journey, L’animal a l’esquena, Celra, Spain
2004 august Innovative Strategies in International Cultural Cooperation, workshop, Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University
2004 august International Theatre Production Management, workshop, Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University
2004 february CEMEA workshop on dance education, Les hivernales d’Avignon, Avignon
2003 august IETM internship, Bruxelles, participation in the organisation of the annual plenary meeting in Birmingham
2003 july Sites of writing: a performance writing workshop, Ric Allsopp, Imaginary academy Groznjan, Croatia
2003 july Live writing, Adrian Heathfield, Imaginary academy, Groznjan, Croatia
2003 may Cultural Management – transfer of knowledge, tricks and wisdom, mentorship in the performing arts, IETM satellite meeting, Bergen, Norway
2003 february Marketing in publishing, seminar, Open Society institute, Zagreb
2001 may Theatre and dance criticism workshop, Dance week festival, Zagreb
2000 november Information technologies in libraries, seminar – project Scientific information system, Ministry of science and technology, Zagreb, Croatia
2000 – 2001 Librarianship studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciencies, University of Zagreb
1996 – 1997 Women Studies, Centre for Women Studies, Zagreb
1994 – 1998 Karl Popper/ Lincoln Douglas debate, National debate centre, Zagreb. Worked as a judge on 2. and 3. National Debate Tournament (1996 and 1997)
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