Various forms of texts that tie in to ANTISEZONA’S main programme, penned by authors who are professionally close to contemporary dance, but either aren’t from the same field or are not in our closest context. The authors’ perspectives, reflections and impressions supplement ANTISEZONA’S performances and events, recontextualising and creating a dynamic discursive field.
EDGES OF A MECHANICAL HEART / DANCE INFLECTIONS
On Oh, Mary Shelley
Katja Šimunić
With Silvia’s very revelation of the title of the future show, whose premiere was about to take place only in ten months’ time, the edges of the heart of the creature brought to life by Victor Frankenstein began their friction with the edges of my imagination prone to AI literature, such as Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Bytes, Alessandro Baricco’s The Game, Stuart Russell’s Human Compatible and anything available on Ada Lovelace.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 2023
ANTISEZONA 23
Luka Ostojić
That is why behind unusual and uncanny expressions – in fact, by way of them – I am able to identify the same issues emerging in films and books, in comics and performances, in paintings and dialogues. I can discern that they hide a joint effort to make an impossible leap over mutual misunderstandings, to raise the questions gathering us in the tense moments when lights go off and we fall asleep.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 2023
ARCHIVE MATERIALS OUTSIDE ARCHIVES
Tea Kantoci
Because of the seemingly elusive nature of contemporary dance, the consensus regarding the optimal archiving method doesn’t exist because each of the ways has its limitations. This doesn’t mean we should seek the ‘correct’ archiving method or that there even is such in the first place. In addition to making it possible to safekeep and accumulate information from the domain of contemporary dance, the key definition of archiving is to underline the interpretation of existing and production of new knowledge and art practices.
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2022
ANTISEZONA, SOFT RESISTANCE:
NOT ENTIRELY A FESTIVAL, STILL NOT A SEASON.
Dragana Alfirević
Perhaps ANTISEZONA is a single three-day piece in which we sleep, talk, dance and drink together? Perhaps ANTISEZONA is one long workshop – or, after all, a festival, which doesn’t strive to be that and precisely because of that it is even more of a festival, one that changes the idea of a festival? Perhaps the performances of the three authors are a context in which other works take place – or is it the reverse? Or the various works are possibly creating a mutual context and frame, in the co-existence of the multitude?
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2022
FRAMING DESIRE:
WOMANE, ENCORE
Ana Fazekaš
Woman’s body is often thought and talked about in metaphors, it is enclosed into representations to be controlled, but it always outgrows them. Metaphor is a veil that hides what is threatening, the abject. Close-ups and Centimetres speak about femininity in endless reflections, not by lifting the veil, but by multiplying it and activating a myriad of veils in dance, the seducing dance of desire, which can be equally soft and devastating, which could, if it wanted, carry away heads on a silver platter.
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2022