18/04/2023, 18.00
Zoom
participants: Tjaša Črnigoj, Nina Gojić, Pola Salicka
moderation: Pia Brezavšček
organisation: Maska Ljubljana, Krytyka Polityczna, Kurziv
Conversation Reparative Explorations: Feminist Pathways is the third in a series of online conversations devoted to the quest for cultural responses that can work to repair the political and ecological crises of today. It was held on Zoom and Facebook, on April 18 at 4.30 pm CEST.
Feminist Pathways focused on the modalities of work in our artistic, research, design and other practices. Can we agree that the modes and conditions of how we want to work follow a certain kind of ethic of care, which stands for different ways of relationality often associated with feminist orientations? By “feminist” we understand a kind of situatedness that can see biases in normative ways of working processes and other social situations where the main aim is (re)productivity. Can feminism offer us a toolbox for repairing the damaged social tissue?
The conversation brought together contributions by researchers, artists and cultural workers Tjaša Črnigoj (Slovenia), Nina Gojić (Croatia) and Pola Salicka (Poland).
The event was moderated by editor and cultural worker Pia Brezavšček (Slovenia).
Tjaša Črnigoj studied theatre directing as well as philosophy and comparative literature and is educated in psychodrama therapy. She is mostly a director in the field of theatre with a special interest in documentary theatre. In this genre, she directed a play Babice (Grannies) with the collective Igralke, Savez udruga Molekula and KUD Transformator (Rijeka ECC 2020), which was invited to play on several stages in Slovenia and Croatia as well as on the platform Theatertreffen-Stückemarkt 2022 in Berlin. In 2021 she was initiating a transdisciplinary laboratory Through the eyes of the others: The city of love in the frame of the residency in Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2022 she received a scholarship »In the field« for perspective artists and cultural workers at the 2022 Wiener Festwochen. In the season 2022/2023 she is directing a series of lecture-performances on the topic of sexual pleasure as a basic sexual right in the frame of human rights, Sexual Education II (Maska, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, Mesto žensk).
Nina Gojić is a dramaturge based in Zagreb, working mostly in dance and devised theatre. She writes texts for and about performance and likes to think about writing as performance. She also writes letters. In collaborative contexts she develops research-based, process-oriented formats and curiosities.
Pola Salicka is a designer and cultural producer, living in Warsaw. Moving between forests, swamps, gardens, materials, installations, objects, workshops and art direction. Educated in industrial design and keeping it as a point of reference while investigating how working with matter could be drawn by the good of more-then- human communities. Advocates for a deeper level of collaboration between human and all other beings represented in radical ecological thinking and politics of care, also in our social relationships. This mode of acting is practiced also in her engagement mainly in collective work such as being part of Zakole group.