SPATIAL LAYERS AND NEW FORMS: MOVEMENT SPACES AT THE WORKE’S AND PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY MOŠA PIJADE IN ZAGREB
Marjana Krajač
lecture
This research explores spaces at the former Workers and People’s University Moša Pijade in Zagreb that served as dance studios or were used as movement sites during the socialist and post-socialist periods. Tracing the institution’s progressive educational concepts alongside its modernist architectural ethos, the research suggests a continuum of these concepts in the contributions of contemporary dance artists who precariously occupied some of its spaces in the early 2000s. Drawing on Derrida’s notion of buildings as fluid conduits rather than static structures, the research brings forward the possibilities of movement-concept interventions of experimental dance practices as powerful tools for the emancipation of art, processes, and spaces.
The lecture is in English, with an introduction and discussion in Croatian.