Within the project 'Small Arts' Platform Emanat Institute is organizing in cooperation with the Slovenian Theater Institute an international symposium about 'small arts'. Events will take place between 9 and 11 September 2021 at the Slovenian Theater Institute and other venues in Ljubljana. Symposium aims to highlight the quickly developing and topical yet dispersed and scarcely visible non-institutional production of hybrid stage practices by presenting the work of artistic groups, academics and producers who are developing these genres in Slovenia and abroad.
The three-day program will include talks, lectures, workshops and performances by representatives of the field from Slovenia and abroad. The focus of the symposium will thereby be contextualization, affirmation and professionalisation of such artistic practices, analyzing the potential of social questions that these practices open and an impact these practices have, through which they can build new communities.
Among the domestic academics we will host Zala Dobovšek, Maja Šorli and Katja Čičigoj, and from abroad we will host Hans van Maanen (Netherlands) with a lecture on 'Aesthetics of small arts' and Irena Ristic (Serbia) with a lecture 'Collectives and commoning in "Small Arts"'. In addition to theorists, the symposium will be joined by domestic and foreign producers, including Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Goran Završnik from Slovenia, and producers from abroad by Fabrice Laffon, Divan du Monde and Madame Arthur (France) and Helena Bunker, Stockholm Fringe Festival (Sweden).
In the accompanying program we will present various artistic creations, such as drag cabaret Madame Arthur from Paris (FR), dance collective TRACE from Zagreb (HR) and locally renovated technoburlesque Image Snatchers.
"SMALL ARTS" SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
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The event will be filmed. All lectures will be broadcast live on the open source platform Stream.tv.
The symposium will be held in Slovene and English.
Head of symposium: Maja Šorli
Symposium committee: Maja Šorli, Maja Delak, Sabrina Železnik
Symposium project group: Sabrina Železniki, Eva Jus, Leon Marič, Jan Rozman, Metod Zupan
Graphic design: Špela Drašlar
Space and uniform design: Tanja Pađan/Kiss the Future & Anselma
Photography: Asiana Jurca Avci
Technical team: Damjan Delak. Luka Prinčič, Janko Oven and Žan Rantaša
Production: Emanat
In collaboration with the Slovenian Theater Institute
Partners: Bunker / Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, DUM – Artists' Association, Union Hotel Collection
With the support of Teatroskop, a program initiated by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture, and the Institut français Paris.
According to the valid government decree, attending a cultural event in the SLOGI hall is only possible for visitors who meet at least one of the requirements: recovered, vaccinated, tested against COVID-19. This condition does not apply to visitors under the age of 15.
