Lana Hosni
participatory programme
As part of her artistic research The Events of the Usual, starting in 2022, dance artist Lana Hosni invited the actors of the contemporary dance scene and all those interested to participate in conversations about assumptions, beliefs, conditionings, prejudices, habits, unwritten rules, tendencies …….. that revolve in the space of dance and more or less obviously affect the way we experience it. Through structured conversation sessions, we were making a kind of an update about where we are today in relation to previous conditionings, beliefs, habits… that we encountered during our experience as a dance artists, looking into the way that they are still present / embodied in the ways we deal with the body, movement, authorship, pedagogy, collaborations, thoughts on dance, reflections, criticism, etc., today.
In the first round of the research cycle starting November 2022-April 2023, around 70 ‘one on one’ meetings took place, summing up around 200 hours of conversation. In the second cycle (2023–2024) the conversations continued to take place in smaller groups, opening space for sharing , discussion and collective processing of common experiences that the participants often perceived as individual or private. In this year’s continuation of research , the focus of the conversations will be fantasies, desires and imagination of alternative possible realities.
The research is followed by a publication in the form of a colouring book that will be exhibited during the time of the festival. Book is featured by Anika Cetina, Antonia Dorbić, Danijela Renić and Kaja Renić, Dora Đurkesac, Ema Kani, Ivana Bojanić, Ivana Vojnić Vratarić, Josipa Bubaš, Nikolina Komljenović, Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Marta Banić, Matea Bilosnić, Mia Štark, Mia Zalukar, Sindri Uču, Tessa Ljubić, Zoe Pauška and Zrinka Užbinec. The colouring book is printed and hand bound by Antonia Dorbić and Lana Hosni in Obrt studio.
Please confirm your participation by Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the address lana.hosni@hotmail.com