Archive for January, 2008
Improvisation Nuno Rebelo at ‘Performing the space’
As part of ‘It Will Be What We Make It’, Nuno Rebelo made a music performance using locally found or invented instruments. Coming from a background of playing in pop-rock bands in the 80s, Nuno has composed a lot of music for contemporary dance, theatre and cinema since the 90s. Alongside his composition work, Rebelo […]
Lisbon Hijacked
On Lisbon’s spaces and places in Dancas na cidade / Alkantara.
Part 1: this research on more than 70 locations in the city of Lisbon used for performing arts and dance festival Dancas na cidade / Alkantara in the period 1993-2007. Numerous locations, from theaters, former factories, abandoned buildings, cultural places, public spaces, (botanical) gardens, private […]
Fringes of ALMOSTREAL: intercultural competence
An excerpt of a talk with Gottfried Wagner, director of ECF, which explores the context of the ALMOSTREAL project within the foundation. In this fragment, Wagner explains the difficulties around words like intercultural competence.
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Amsterdam, 2005
interview: Ana Dzokic, Marc Neelen
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Fringes of ALMOSTREAL: why focus on the Balkans?
An excerpt from a talk with Gottfried Wagner, director of the ECF, which considers the context of the ALMOSTREAL project within the foundation. In this fragment, Wagner explains why it is important to (maintain) a focus on the Balkan region.
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Amsterdam, 2005
interview: Ana […]
Constructing the space between practice and theory
Alkantara director Mark Deputter and performance theorist Bojana Cvejic started to work together in the context of Encounters.
Bojana, originally from Belgrade, is a performer and performance theorist based in Brussels, while Mark, throughout his years as director of alkantara, had devised several projects that explore and create new grounds for collaborations between individuals and […]
Negotiating a partnership
Between alkantara and ALMOSTREAL
Guest-Editing Nova Gallery Newspaper
An instance of collaboration arose between PRELOM kolektiv in Belgrade and WHW curatorial collective in Zagreb. In october 2005, PRELOM kolektiv were invited by WHW to guest edit the eigth issue of their Nova Gallery Newspaper. The release of this newspaper coincided with the transfer and opening of the exhibition ‘The Continuous Art Class’ in […]