07/11 – 09/11/2024
Pogon Jedinstvo, Academy of Dramatic Arts (F22), Savica Lakes
Zagreb, Croatia
Exposium is an interdisciplinary program organized by Kurziv (publisher of Kulturpunkt) and serves as the final public event of the international project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem. This project has launched a series of creative processes focused on exploring, testing, and producing “reparative” approaches. These approaches, open to surprising and unexpected outcomes—motivated by joy and pleasure rather than fear or anxiety—seek ways to address various systemic issues that burden relationships within culture and society, as well as our relations to the environment and the future.
The three-day Exposium program takes place at Pogon Jedinstvo, the Academy of Dramatic Arts (F22) and by the Savica Lakes. Through interactions with the audience, the immediate environment, non-human and more-than-human beings, phenomena, and anomalies, we will explore how to envision a better “then-and-there” from our “here-and-now”, a time marked by multiple, successive crises that offer little reason for optimism.
The artistic part of Exposium includes the Rhizomatic Gestures cycle, which features works by Maja Bojanić, Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, and Fette Sans. These four artists, along with curator Lea Vene, developed their responses to the project’s themes and materials in collaboration with Kurziv in the form of performances, installations, and a performative expedition. It also includes lecture-performance Sex Education II: Ability by director Tjaša Črnigoj, brought by association Maska from Ljubljana. The Zakole collective, which has developed various methods of observing and connecting with the environment through their work in Warsaw’s wetlands, will bring their methodology to Zagreb in an experimental walk around the Savica Lakes.
The discursive program opens with a round table focused on methods and strategies for addressing and acting despite challenges in the cultural ecosystem. It continues with the sharing of artistic methods and practices from the artists of Rhizomatic Gestures, presentations of collective practices of regenerative activism by the Zakole collective and their collaborators, and concludes with a conversation with the artists of Sex Education II.
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, November 7 | Exposium Opening | Pogon Jedinstvo (Big Hall)
18:30 | Here-and-now of our cultural ecosystem – how do we cope, why do we persist and where do we strive? (round table)
- participants: Pia Brezavšček, Karla Crnčević, Nina Gojić, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Hana Sirovica
20:30 | Rhizomatic Gestures I
Nadia Markiewicz: Ballad of the Withering Rose (performance and installation)
Hrvoslava Brkušić: Veda Zagorac (working title) (installation)
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago (installation)
Friday, November 8 | Pogon Jedinstvo
18:00 | Small Hall | Rhizomatic Gestures: Practices and Methods (artist talk)
- participants: Hrvoslava Brkušić, Nadia Markiewicz, Fette Sans, Lea Vene
19:00 | Small Hall | Swamp Gatherings (conversation)
- participants: members and collaborators of the Zakole Collective
20:30 | Main Hall | Rhizomatic Gestures II
Fette Sans: I Passed the Stage of Disappointment Long Ago (performance)
Saturday, November 9
11:00 | Savica Lakes | Overflow (experimental walk)*
- led by: Zakole Collective
*registration required via form.
14:00 | Pogon Jedinstvo | Rhizomatic Gestures III
Maja Bojanić: HIC SVNT DRACONES, no actually mld
(guided audio expedition through Pogon building and conversation with the artist)
20:00 | F22 | Exposium Closing | Sex Education II: The Ability (lecture-performance)*
- the performance will be followed by artist talk led by Una Bauer
* free entry; registration required via form.
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Kurziv extends its gratitude to Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth and the Academy of Dramatic Art for their support.
Design: Maja Maar
Exposium is part of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for a New Cultural Ecosystem project, which Kurziv is implementing in partnership with Maska and Krytyka Polityczna, with support from the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The program is carried out with the support of the City of Zagreb, the Kultura Nova Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Office for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia. Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth and the Academy of Dramatic Art are associate partners in the project.