Tue 29 09, 10:00

Jasna Žmak: The artist is institutionalised

workshop EN friendly Based on a True Story
Becoming an artist means becoming part of the art world – a world with its own rules, agenda and language. A language that we are expected to master in order to succeed and continue creating art. Although the heyday of institutional critique may be behind us, many of its questions remain unanswered.

In this workshop, we will therefore ask ourselves how are our lives shaped by the institutions we are part of. We will approach the artist not only as a creator of artworks, but also as a living archive - a person whose memories, experiences, ambitions, contradictions, and positions within the cultural field carry both personal and social meaning and can become sources of dramaturgical reflection. Together we will explore how personal histories, relationships, influences, and encounters can become artistic material.

Working on the intersection of documentary theater and autofiction, we will investigate how are the narratives through which we understand ourselves as artists created, not in an attempt to reach a final truth, but as a way of questioning, re-framing, and re-imagining the stories we tell about ourselves.

International arts project that brings together three cultural organizations from Central Europe—ARCHA+ (Czech Republic), Komuna Warszawa (Poland), and Projekt Batyskaf (Slovakia). Its goal is to support and implement the curatorial concept by young theater artists Adam Dragun (SK/CZ) and Olga Ciężkowska (PL), titled Based on a True Story. The project focuses on contemporary theater and performance practices that employ documentary approaches and research-based artistic processes. More information can be found here.

Tickets can be purchased individually for each performance or as a festival pass.

Jasna Žmak is a writer, dramaturg and researcher from Zagreb, Croatia, working across the fields of performance, dance, literature and film. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she teaches BA and MA courses in performance dramaturgy. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She has published several books, including "Lecture as Performance, Performance as Lecture – On the Production of Knowledge in the Arts" (2019) and "Dirty Words – Essays on Female Sexuality" (2020). She has organized and/or mentored numerous workshops on writing, feminism and/or dramaturgy. Her debut solo performance "this is my truth, tell me yours" (2023), has toured 30 theatres and festivals across Europe and received the Grand Prix at the BITEF Festival in Belgrade.

https://jasnajasnazmak.net/en/

English

240 minutes with break

Studio of ARCHA+, Zlatnická 1129/8, 110 00 New Town