..NIKOLINA & GORAN SERGEJ PRISTAŠ: ALWAYS, NEVER, NOW

The lecture entitled Always, Never, Now will also be an introduction to a two-day theoretical and practical workshop. The lecture will be centred on theory, but through practical examples, it will search for and illustrate cases of a non-chronological understanding of temporality.

The goals of the workshop entitled Always, Never, Now are an analysis and a breakdown of a performance (of an artwork) as an operation in time. Considering various non-chronological approaches to temporality – from understanding time as reading to perceiving it as a time-image; from the messianic time found in Benjamin and Agamben to editing procedures put forward by Burch – the participants will get acquainted with and, through discussion, acquire the tools for understanding terminological differences and procedures, such as reconstruction, recapitulation, regression, gradual elimination, cyclic repetition, serial variations, rhythmical changes, architecture of time, etc.   

The workshop is intended for young critics, theoreticians, theatre and dance creators, dramaturges and students in social sciences. The price for outside participants is €40. You can send your application to jasmina.zaloznik@maska.si.
   
NIKOLINA & GORAN SERGEJ PRISTAŠ are choreographers, theatre directors and performance artists. They are members of the BADco. art collective from Zagreb (www.badco.hr). Within the mentioned platform, they created numerous performances: Man.Chair (2000), 2tri4 (2001), Diderot's Nephew or Blood is Thicker than Water (2001), Solo Me (2002), Ribcage (2002), Deleted Messages (2004), Fleshdance (2004), Memories Are Made Of This... (2006), Changes (2007) in 1 Poor & One 0 (2008); as well as gallery projects: Shared Space (2005) (BADco.), Tiskara Borba, Zagreb; Fleshdance (2005/06) (BADco.), Gliptoteka Zagreb, VN Gallery Zagreb, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Tallinn Art Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje; Gifoskop (in collaboration with Nenad Romić and Maja Marjančić), Miroslav Kraljević Gallery Zagreb; Normalisation – dedicated to Nikola Tesla (2006), Nova Gallery Zagreb. They have rich pedagogical experiences that are an expression of numerous lectures and practical workshops conducted at home and abroad. Goran Sergej Pristaš is also a professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb.