FUTURISMS: Performative Programme
The FUTURISMS series of events brings together artists, researchers and practitioners to test possible realities through performance and play. In the performative part, which takes place in June, Olja Grubić, Tatiana Kocmur and Una Bauer will explore the fissures into alternative worlds, especially in the context of feminist and queer struggles.
- Series of performances
1. 6. – Una Bauer: What Matters
2. 6. – Tatiana Kocmur: Nira
3.6. – Olja Grubić: To Our Delight
Producer: Maska Ljubljana
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana
Performances
About the Curators
Jasmina Založnik is a freelance dramaturge, dance publicist and producer. She works locally and internationally as a writer, editor, dramaturge, curator, researcher, archivist, and artistic collaborator. She is a co-manager of the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and co-founder and co-curator of the CoFestival International Festival of Contemporary Dance. She holds an MA in Philosophy (Intercultural Studies – Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures at the University of Nova Gorica) and a PhD in Visual Culture (University of Aberdeen, 2020). In 2015, she received the Ksenija Hribar Award for dance in the category Criticism/Dramaturgy/Theory and in 2023 the Meta Vidmar Award.
Alja Lobnik is a PhD student and self-employed cultural worker, critic, theatrologist, and radio show author. For a while, she worked as a publicist and critic at the Radio Študent Culture and Humanities Redaction and the Bunker’s platform Kriterij.si. She is a member of the executive committee of the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia and a critic at the Delo newspaper. In 2019, she became the co-editor of Maska and the co-editor of the Neodvisni web portal – a territory of contemporary performing arts, in 2021 she became the director and artistic director of the Maska Institute.
