Friday, May 15, 2009
NEWS
SHADOW CASTERS: EX-POSITION
EX-POSITION was presented on July 3rd in main programme of 15. international theatre festival PUF in Pula, (fantastic city on Croatian coast) where it won the main festival award OBLAK (CLOUD). See here.
EX-POSITION was also shown to international audience within Showcase programme of the conference PSI#15 (Performance Studies International) on June 26 and 27 (2009) in Zagreb, Croatia.
2008. TOUR SUCCESS:
Trilogy "Proces_city" had its world premiere on MESS International Theater Festival in Sarajevo between October 19th and 23rd, ("Vacation from History", "Ex-position" & "process_in_progress").
There trilogy won a critic award "Avaz's Dragon".
Ex-position was also performed in 2008. in Hungarian city Szeged on July 24th and 25th from 15h-19hon 18th international festival THEALTER. Soon we will post the translations of Hungarian critics. It was fantastic experience to be there!!
Thanks to all of you who were on our lasts shows in Zagreb on April 18, 19 and 20 - you were fantastic audience - again!!
If you have anything to sugest, complain or to ask, do not hesitate - call us on +385 98 28 73 73 or write to bacaci_sjenki@europe.com.
Send us your e-mail addresses if you want direct news on your desktop!
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2007. TOUR SUCCESS:
4. Croatian theater showcase by ITI CROATIA - UNESCO, ZAGREB CROATIA
We thank all of you visited us on October 18 i 20, 2007, in the frame of the "Best of Croatian Theater" Showcase organised by The ITI-UNESCO Croatian Centre (International Theatre Institute).
41. BITEF, BELGRADE, SERBIA
Ex-position has won unanimously the Special Jury Award at the 41st International Theatre Festival BITEF in Belgrade, where it performed from September 27 to 29. It has also won the Second Audience Prize, being behind the first-prized performance by a narrow margine of 0,01%. For more information see http://www.bitef.co.yu.
Thanks to everybody who payed us a visit in Bjelovar, Krizevci, Podgorica and Belgrade!!
Write to us at: bacaci_sjenki@europe.com
For reservations please call:
+385 1 462 02 62 (10-16h)
+385 98 28 73 73 (12-18h)
Ex-position was so far in the official programme of the following festivals:
“The individualisation of performers and their “navigations” through space are undoubtedly great virtues of this performance; yet what seems even more important is the introduction of different political themes, such as the collective civic guilt for Croatian nationalism, the problem of municipal neglect of the entire industrial space (“the vanishing” of the entire system of employment and a certain type of labour), as well as the artistic critique of the very pattern of factory “labour” reduced to helpless, humiliating toil for trifles. These are the reasons why Boris Bakal and his group of autonomous collaborators have created one of the most intriguing theatre projects of this season; and its marginalised performing space by no means diminishes the power of artistic truth. On the contrary: it seems that the dirt and the dust of the abandoned factory speak more of mature capitalism than the conventionally “made-up” theatre edifices seem able to.”
(Nataša Govedić, A Journey Through Collective Guilt, Novi list, 29.10.2006.)
"In view of this year's slogan on intimacy, the most refined performance of EUROKAZ (International Performing Arts Festival in Zagreb) was EX-POSITION by Boris Bakal and Shadow Casters, a sort of walking tenderness in which the performers were guiding the blindfolded spectators, one by one, by the hand and with warmth that costs nothing, telling them stories they have long forgotten."
Bojan Munjin, Feral Tribune
“Many performances and projects of Boris Bakal refer to space as the visible surface of inner devastation (a typical slogan of Shadow Casters is: Man is space), i.e. space as the “archive” of various political denials of human freedom as well as of human endurance
(…)
Art has succeeded to achieve what escapes sheer activism: it has created an autonomous zone of creative and critical visibility, endowing resilience to the location doomed to vanish prior to Ex-position. It has showed that the city truly lives in the one who preserves its edifices rather than in some opaque urbanistic planning, and that art may create a special kind of asylum for the architectural “losers” and those deprived of land ownership. Legitimisng a space through performing fictions is highly precious also from a strictly theatrical angle: in Bakal’s projects, the entire city acquires the outlines of theatre; it expands over the boundaries of managerial politics; the stage is no longer under the patronage of state institutions; the borders of private ownership and common good, dramatic story and stage object, performer and spectator, are all blurred.”
(Nataša Govedić, Polit-localisation of live word, Zarez No. 192, 16.11.2006.)
"Thus, similar to simplified mythological concepts, each visitor gets out of EX-POSITION as much as s/he brings into it; for, even when being in a firmly structured story, her/his passivity is actually an illusion that hides a highly active supressing of disbelief and, ultimately, the acceptance of walk."
Igor Ružić, Vijenac
Dear friends, colleagues and visitors
The multimedia art organisation SHADOW CASTERS extends its apologies to all those who were not able to see the performance EX-POSITION at the 2005 Urban Festival, to all those who were not able to see it in July 2006 at the 20th jubilee edition of Eurokaz, as well as to those who were not able to see it again in Zagreb in October 2006. We also apologise to all those who missed it this year in Zagreb (April), Bjelovar and Križevic (May), and especially to those in Podgorica, Montenegro and Belgrade, Serbia who were deprived of the event in September. On this occasion, we apologise in advance to all those who might not be able to see it even in the new cycle of re-runs in Zagreb as well as in Bologna, Oslo, Budapest, Skopje, Berlin, Rijeka, Zadar and some other cities. To put it simply this is the integral part of the performance.
For all those first, second and third ones, a small reminder on the who’s, the what’s and the what for’s: The urban theatre project EX-POSITION is founded on the essay THE JUDGEMENT DAY BY the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, at once drawing the inspiration from Kafka’s story LEGEND OF THE LAW. Besides these, there are numerous references that are interweaved in the performance: Jeunet’s movie Amélie Poulain, Walles’ Trial, Shakespeare’s King Lear, along with previous projects of Shadow Casters. EX-POSITION is the second part of the trilogy PROCESS_CITY that was launched in 2004 with its third part, PROCESS_IN_PROGRESS at the 13th Croatian FIlm Days.
Director and Author of Concept: Boris Bakal
Dramaturgy: Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic, Stanko Juzbasic
Music and sounds: Stanko Juzbasic
Authors and performers: Boris Bakal, Boris Beštak, Stanko Juzbasic, Jelena Lopatic, Mladen Hrvoje Ilic, Emil Matesic, Bojan Navojec, Katarina Pejovic, Ena Schulz, Tanja Vrvilo
Special appearance: Tomislav Jurcec
Set Design: Boris Bakal (Dragan Mileusnic)
Costume Design: Martina Franic
Collaborators: Iva Aras, Ognjen Bogojevic, Ivan Bauk, Mario Mavrin, Milan Zerjav
Production Assistant/PR: Vanja Zanko
Poster Design: Zeljko Serdarevic/Dragan Mileusnic
Production: Shadow Casters
Co-production: Urban Festival 2005, Orchestra Stolpnik (Bologna, Italy), Veletrznice Zagreb
Financial Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City Municipality of Zagreb - Office for Culture, Education and Sport
Donations: Zagrebacka banka
Special thanks: Damir Bartol Indos, Damir Klemenic, Ratko Perica, Iva Aras and Ivana Perković
Bhotos by: Boris Bakal, Srećko Horvat, Srđan Kovačević, Katarina Pejović, Ivan Slipčević i Vesna Vuković
SHADOW CASTERS (BACACI SJENKI) is a non-profit international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creatin and reflection of intermedia arts. One of the main focuses of their work is dealing with urban space through various artistic interventions and projects. Up to this day, SHADOW CASTERS have realised the following projects: Shadow Casters, Process_in_Progress (process_city 03), Man is Space: Vitic_Dances, Re-collecting City, Re-collecting Time and Ex-position (process_city 02).
More on the show also at:
Eurokaz international festival 2006
International Urbanfestival Zagreb2005
Vijenac (by-monthly magazine), br. 322, 06. srpnja 2006.
Feral Tribune (by-monthly magazine), 06. srpnja 2006.
Webzin: F.I.L.M.
Webzin: Kupus (Ivan Kralj, Eurokaz post-festum)
Radio 101
Andrija Tunjić, "Nadilaženje jezika i kultura", Vjesnik, 1. July 2006
Igor Ružić, Radio 101, Annual review 2006: Theater
Sandro Novosel, Exposing and shifting positions - theater atraction of the year in Križevci, June 12. 2007
Ivana Matijević, Danas, 29. September, 2007. "Ex-position" Shadow Caster's theater "one on one"
Ana Tasić, Politika, 02. october, 2007. "Endlessly inspiring"(BITEF 41.)
Renate Klett, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 04. listopada, 2007. "Wer nicht sehen kann, muss fühlen",(BITEF 41.)
Bojan Munjin, Feral Tribune, 4. listopada, 2007. "Honorary chalk circle"
Contact info:
Bacaci Sjenki (Shadow Casters)
Bosanska 10
10000 Zagreb/Croatia
+385 98 28 73 73
+385 91 738 95 06
fax +385 (0)1 485 57 29
e/mail: bacaci_sjenki@europe.com
NEWS
Next scheduled performances of EX-POSITION will be at MKC (Multimedia cultural centre) in Split, Croatia on October 10 and 11.EX-POSITION was presented on July 3rd in main programme of 15. international theatre festival PUF in Pula, (fantastic city on Croatian coast) where it won the main festival award OBLAK (CLOUD). See here.
EX-POSITION was also shown to international audience within Showcase programme of the conference PSI#15 (Performance Studies International) on June 26 and 27 (2009) in Zagreb, Croatia.
2008. TOUR SUCCESS:
Trilogy "Proces_city" had its world premiere on MESS International Theater Festival in Sarajevo between October 19th and 23rd, ("Vacation from History", "Ex-position" & "process_in_progress").
There trilogy won a critic award "Avaz's Dragon".
Ex-position was also performed in 2008. in Hungarian city Szeged on July 24th and 25th from 15h-19hon 18th international festival THEALTER. Soon we will post the translations of Hungarian critics. It was fantastic experience to be there!!
Thanks to all of you who were on our lasts shows in Zagreb on April 18, 19 and 20 - you were fantastic audience - again!!
If you have anything to sugest, complain or to ask, do not hesitate - call us on +385 98 28 73 73 or write to bacaci_sjenki@europe.com.
Send us your e-mail addresses if you want direct news on your desktop!
****
2007. TOUR SUCCESS:
4. Croatian theater showcase by ITI CROATIA - UNESCO, ZAGREB CROATIA
We thank all of you visited us on October 18 i 20, 2007, in the frame of the "Best of Croatian Theater" Showcase organised by The ITI-UNESCO Croatian Centre (International Theatre Institute).
41. BITEF, BELGRADE, SERBIA
Ex-position has won unanimously the Special Jury Award at the 41st International Theatre Festival BITEF in Belgrade, where it performed from September 27 to 29. It has also won the Second Audience Prize, being behind the first-prized performance by a narrow margine of 0,01%. For more information see http://www.bitef.co.yu.
Ex-position also took part on Septemeber 12. i 13. at the International Alternative Theatre Festival FIAT in Podgorica, Montenegro.
Thanks to everybody who payed us a visit in Bjelovar, Krizevci, Podgorica and Belgrade!!
Write to us at: bacaci_sjenki@europe.com
For reservations please call:
+385 1 462 02 62 (10-16h)
+385 98 28 73 73 (12-18h)
Ex-position was so far in the official programme of the following festivals:
Urbanfestival 2005, Zagreb, Croatia
Eurokaz 2006, Zagreb, Croatia
Bokfest 2007, Bjelovar, Croatia
Festival Spravišće 2007, Križevci, Croatia
International Alternative Theatre Festival FIAT, 2007, Podgorica-Montenegro
BITEF - Belgrade International Theatre Festival,2007, Belgrade, Serbia
CROATIAN THEATER SHOWCASE, October 17-21, Zagreb. 2007
THEALTER, Szeged, Hungary, July, 24&25, 2008
The performance Ex-position was nominated for the 2006 Croatian Theater Award (HDDU award) for Best Directing.
Last year, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia has allocated a part of its budget for the experimental feature film Ex-position. . ( Financing the film industry in Croatia in 2006. ) The movie is our project based on the performance by the same name and same inspiration.
“The individualisation of performers and their “navigations” through space are undoubtedly great virtues of this performance; yet what seems even more important is the introduction of different political themes, such as the collective civic guilt for Croatian nationalism, the problem of municipal neglect of the entire industrial space (“the vanishing” of the entire system of employment and a certain type of labour), as well as the artistic critique of the very pattern of factory “labour” reduced to helpless, humiliating toil for trifles. These are the reasons why Boris Bakal and his group of autonomous collaborators have created one of the most intriguing theatre projects of this season; and its marginalised performing space by no means diminishes the power of artistic truth. On the contrary: it seems that the dirt and the dust of the abandoned factory speak more of mature capitalism than the conventionally “made-up” theatre edifices seem able to.”
(Nataša Govedić, A Journey Through Collective Guilt, Novi list, 29.10.2006.)
"In view of this year's slogan on intimacy, the most refined performance of EUROKAZ (International Performing Arts Festival in Zagreb) was EX-POSITION by Boris Bakal and Shadow Casters, a sort of walking tenderness in which the performers were guiding the blindfolded spectators, one by one, by the hand and with warmth that costs nothing, telling them stories they have long forgotten."
Bojan Munjin, Feral Tribune
“Many performances and projects of Boris Bakal refer to space as the visible surface of inner devastation (a typical slogan of Shadow Casters is: Man is space), i.e. space as the “archive” of various political denials of human freedom as well as of human endurance
(…)
Art has succeeded to achieve what escapes sheer activism: it has created an autonomous zone of creative and critical visibility, endowing resilience to the location doomed to vanish prior to Ex-position. It has showed that the city truly lives in the one who preserves its edifices rather than in some opaque urbanistic planning, and that art may create a special kind of asylum for the architectural “losers” and those deprived of land ownership. Legitimisng a space through performing fictions is highly precious also from a strictly theatrical angle: in Bakal’s projects, the entire city acquires the outlines of theatre; it expands over the boundaries of managerial politics; the stage is no longer under the patronage of state institutions; the borders of private ownership and common good, dramatic story and stage object, performer and spectator, are all blurred.”
(Nataša Govedić, Polit-localisation of live word, Zarez No. 192, 16.11.2006.)
"Thus, similar to simplified mythological concepts, each visitor gets out of EX-POSITION as much as s/he brings into it; for, even when being in a firmly structured story, her/his passivity is actually an illusion that hides a highly active supressing of disbelief and, ultimately, the acceptance of walk."
Igor Ružić, Vijenac
Dear friends, colleagues and visitors
The multimedia art organisation SHADOW CASTERS extends its apologies to all those who were not able to see the performance EX-POSITION at the 2005 Urban Festival, to all those who were not able to see it in July 2006 at the 20th jubilee edition of Eurokaz, as well as to those who were not able to see it again in Zagreb in October 2006. We also apologise to all those who missed it this year in Zagreb (April), Bjelovar and Križevic (May), and especially to those in Podgorica, Montenegro and Belgrade, Serbia who were deprived of the event in September. On this occasion, we apologise in advance to all those who might not be able to see it even in the new cycle of re-runs in Zagreb as well as in Bologna, Oslo, Budapest, Skopje, Berlin, Rijeka, Zadar and some other cities. To put it simply this is the integral part of the performance.
For all those first, second and third ones, a small reminder on the who’s, the what’s and the what for’s: The urban theatre project EX-POSITION is founded on the essay THE JUDGEMENT DAY BY the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, at once drawing the inspiration from Kafka’s story LEGEND OF THE LAW. Besides these, there are numerous references that are interweaved in the performance: Jeunet’s movie Amélie Poulain, Walles’ Trial, Shakespeare’s King Lear, along with previous projects of Shadow Casters. EX-POSITION is the second part of the trilogy PROCESS_CITY that was launched in 2004 with its third part, PROCESS_IN_PROGRESS at the 13th Croatian FIlm Days.
Director and Author of Concept: Boris Bakal
Dramaturgy: Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic, Stanko Juzbasic
Music and sounds: Stanko Juzbasic
Authors and performers: Boris Bakal, Boris Beštak, Stanko Juzbasic, Jelena Lopatic, Mladen Hrvoje Ilic, Emil Matesic, Bojan Navojec, Katarina Pejovic, Ena Schulz, Tanja Vrvilo
Special appearance: Tomislav Jurcec
Set Design: Boris Bakal (Dragan Mileusnic)
Costume Design: Martina Franic
Collaborators: Iva Aras, Ognjen Bogojevic, Ivan Bauk, Mario Mavrin, Milan Zerjav
Production Assistant/PR: Vanja Zanko
Poster Design: Zeljko Serdarevic/Dragan Mileusnic
Production: Shadow Casters
Co-production: Urban Festival 2005, Orchestra Stolpnik (Bologna, Italy), Veletrznice Zagreb
Financial Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City Municipality of Zagreb - Office for Culture, Education and Sport
Donations: Zagrebacka banka
Special thanks: Damir Bartol Indos, Damir Klemenic, Ratko Perica, Iva Aras and Ivana Perković
Bhotos by: Boris Bakal, Srećko Horvat, Srđan Kovačević, Katarina Pejović, Ivan Slipčević i Vesna Vuković
SHADOW CASTERS (BACACI SJENKI) is a non-profit international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creatin and reflection of intermedia arts. One of the main focuses of their work is dealing with urban space through various artistic interventions and projects. Up to this day, SHADOW CASTERS have realised the following projects: Shadow Casters, Process_in_Progress (process_city 03), Man is Space: Vitic_Dances, Re-collecting City, Re-collecting Time and Ex-position (process_city 02).
More on the show also at:
Eurokaz international festival 2006
International Urbanfestival Zagreb2005
Vijenac (by-monthly magazine), br. 322, 06. srpnja 2006.
Feral Tribune (by-monthly magazine), 06. srpnja 2006.
Webzin: F.I.L.M.
Webzin: Kupus (Ivan Kralj, Eurokaz post-festum)
Radio 101
Andrija Tunjić, "Nadilaženje jezika i kultura", Vjesnik, 1. July 2006
Igor Ružić, Radio 101, Annual review 2006: Theater
Sandro Novosel, Exposing and shifting positions - theater atraction of the year in Križevci, June 12. 2007
Ivana Matijević, Danas, 29. September, 2007. "Ex-position" Shadow Caster's theater "one on one"
Ana Tasić, Politika, 02. october, 2007. "Endlessly inspiring"(BITEF 41.)
Renate Klett, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 04. listopada, 2007. "Wer nicht sehen kann, muss fühlen",(BITEF 41.)
Bojan Munjin, Feral Tribune, 4. listopada, 2007. "Honorary chalk circle"
Contact info:
Bacaci Sjenki (Shadow Casters)
Bosanska 10
10000 Zagreb/Croatia
+385 98 28 73 73
+385 91 738 95 06
fax +385 (0)1 485 57 29
e/mail: bacaci_sjenki@europe.com
