BADco. | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

BADco.

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BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Lovro Rumiha and Zrinka Užbinec.

Since its beginning in 2000, BADco. systematically focuses on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and observing by structuring its projects around diverse formal and perceptual relations and contexts. Reconfiguring established relations between performance and audience, challenging perspectival givens and architectonics of performance, problematizing of communicational structures – all of that makes BADco. an internationally significant artistic phenomenon and one of the most differentiated performance experiences.

So far the group has produced the following works: Man.Chair (2000), 2tri4 (2001), Diderot’s Nephew or Blood is Thicker than Water (2001), Solo Me (2002), RibCage (2002), Walk This Way (2003), Mass (for Election Day Silence) (2003), Deleted Messages (2004), Fleshdance (2004), memories are made of this… performance notes (2006), Gravidation (2006), Changes (2007), 1 poor and one 0 (2008), The League of Time (2009), SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare (2010), Point of Convergence (2010), Responsibility for Things Seen, Tales in Negative Space (2011), Black and Forth (2012), TVolution will not be televised (2013), A Pound of Hysteria, Acceleration… – melodrama (2013), Broken Performances (2013).

Zoom festival, development of platform - "Institutions need to be constructed"

04.09.-04.10.2015.

Institutions need to be constructed is a project is based on a format of the temporary settlement of abandoned factory or non-completed social spaces as the sites of new institutions of independent culture.

Over a period of 24 hours and on the location of a former factory, BADco. intends to stage the problems of relations between production, labor, watching and resting together with a group of invited artists and spectators. This will create a space for a discussion of the topics of work, watching and the attention economy; of productivity in the arts, the ethics of work, the disappearance of production in favour of presentation, and the valorization of the arts by way of non-aesthetic spheres of social production. The locations and topics are: Zagreb – production sites (Pogon Jedinstvo), Split – resting (Dom mladih), Rijeka – work, watching and the audience (Hartera). Their event in Hartera is imagined as a one day log art camp.

The whole project includes the shooting of a documentary called Trilogy on Labor that deals with the specific transformations of labor in the late capitalism and the images of the working population in the field of art production. The film is divided in three parts taken at three different locations in Croatia, where a strong connection or tendency of binding the industrial architecture, failed production and arts strongly exists. Each location is historically, problematically and architecturally specific, and its content will be bound together by series of documentations in the organization by BADco. collective. The first part will be filmed in Hartera, the abandoned factory on the bank of the river Rječina, which has in the last ten years been in a constant focus of Rijeka's independent cultural scene and city politics.

The Other Sea

→ www.drugo-more.hr

The Other Sea / Drugo more is a nonprofit organization that works in the field of culture. Most of their programs are thematic and they try to explore certain topics of social interest, producing an artistic and theoretical program that gives further insight in the topic. Also, they are continually facilitating an exchange of information between local and international artists, experts, students, and audiences. In reality, that means their main activities are visual and performing arts production, promotion, implementing research in the field of culture, and organizing participatory and educational events such as conferences and seminars