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V Imenu Ljudstva (In the name of the people), directed by Jure Novak, producer Maska Institute, co-producer Glej Theatre, 2010.

Known for integrating innovative and socially engaged approaches to contemporary art practice since 1993, Maska Institute engages in contemporary art production, publishing, education, research, and activism. Since 2017, Maska runs The New Post Office project together with Mladinsko Theatre.

Maska productions

Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary, visual, and new media events by established and innovative artists as well as first projects of the youngest generation. The performances range from engaged interdisciplinary performances tackling issues such as identity, intimacy, (Slovene) political reality, and mass entertainment to more genre dance works. Maska regularly enters co-productions with other cultural and contemporary art organisations, its productions are often awarded and featured in the programmes of the Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance, Borštnik Theatre Festival, and Week of Slovenian Drama.

Dušan Jovanović - Spomenik G by prodoktv on YouTube

Monument G (Spomenik G) trailer

Visual and intermedia production, among others, includes co-productions with Aksioma Institute, Cona Institute, Intima Virtual Base, the International Centre of Graphic Arts – MGLC, etc.

Maska publishing

Maska's wide-ranging publishing programme is aimed at offering critical writing on media and society as well as on reflecting the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia, and new-media/intermedia art.

Book series

The TRANSformations (TRANSformacije) book series covers contemporary performing arts theory, introducing some new terminology and conceptual frameworks by Slovene or foreign authors, such as Hans-Thies Lehmann, Amelia Jones, Mladen Dolar, Aleš Erjavec, Jonathan Burrows, Nicolas Bourriaud, Bojana Kunst, Aldo Milohnić, Andrew Hewitt, etc.

The Mediactions (Mediakcije) book series offers some critical, even subversive titles from the fields of media and society. The series has thus far brought translations of authors such as Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe, Serge Halimi, Oliver Razac, Robert Phaller, Naomi Klein, Sandra B. Hrvatin and Lenart J. Kučič, etc.

For a detailed list of titles see below.

Maska, Performing Arts Journal

The institute has been publishing the performing arts journal Maska (The Mask), a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name launched in 1920, since 1993, with bilingual (English and Slovenian) editions available since 2002. For a detailed overview see Maska Journal.

Maska symposium

Maska symposium's basic project is the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, a year-round programme featuring internationally acclaimed scholars and artists, aimed at enhancing analytical and critical thinking about performing arts and facilitating the understanding of historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts to create new forms of reflection. The seminar has thus far hosted some prominent names in the fields of philosophy and theory as well as makers themselves, such as Amelia Jones, Jacques Rancière, Bojana Cvejić, Chantall Mouffe, Bojana Kunst, Tim Etchells, Rabih Mroué, Svetlana Mintcheva, etc.

The participants of the seminar take part in the ongoing platform The Audience Council, organised by Bunker Institute, Via Negativa, and City of Women since 2013, which aims to encourage reflection and stimulate an exchange of the audience's views.

External links

My Name Is Janez Janša by aksioma on Vimeo

Gallery

V Imenu Ljudstva (In the name of the people), directed by Jure Novak, producer Maska Institute, co-producer Glej Theatre, 2010.

Artists Janez Janša and Janez Janša presenting their Biography

The Slovenec Slovenca gor postavi theatre performance team (from left): Alja Kapun, Miha Brajnik, Katarina Stegnar, Janez Pipan (former director of SNG Drama Ljubljana), and Rok Matke. In front: Marko Bulc (performance director) and Maša Kagao Knez. The performance was co-produced by Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and Maska Institute

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-[[Maska Institute]] is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation for publishing, production, education, and research, registered in 1993. It is divided into three departments: Maska Productions (performances, interdisciplinary, and visual artworks), Maska Publishing, and Maska Symposium. Its activities engage in contemporary art and theory, research, experimental performing practices, interdisciplinary art, and critical theory. Maska works on the Maska Symposium series in collaboration with the [[Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre]].
+{{Image|Glej Theatre 2010 In the name of the people Photo Urska Boljkovac.jpg}}
+Known for integrating innovative and socially engaged approaches to contemporary art practice since [[Established::1993]], [[Maska Institute]] engages in contemporary art production, publishing, education, research, and activism. Since 2017, Maska runs [[Nova pošta|The New Post Office]] project together with [[Mladinsko Theatre]].
 }}
+{{TeaserSlo|Maska se ukvarja s sodobno umetniško produkcijo, založništvom in izobraževanjem. Vodi projektni prostor Nova Pošta.}}
-== Maska Productions ==
+== Maska productions ==
-Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary performing arts events by innovative, exploring artists as well as first projects of the youngest generation. The performances range from engaged interdisciplinary performances tackling issues, such as identity, intimacy, (Slovene) political reality, and mass entertainment to more genre dance works. Recently Janez Janša made reconstructions of founding performances of experimental Slovene theatre from the 60s (''Pupilia Papa Pupilo and the Pupilčeks'' (Pupilija papa pupilo in pupilčki) (2006), awarded at the 41st ''Bitef'' in Belgrade, and ''Monument G'' (2009)). His ''Slovene National Theatre'' [Slovensko narodno gledališče) (2008) won the award for innovation and aesthetic breakthrough at 43rd [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]] 2008. Irena Tomažin received the [[Golden Bird Award]] 2006 for her performance ''Caprice'' [Kaprica], co-produced by the [[City of Women]] festival. Maska also produced work by Ivan Peternelj, Magdalena Reiter, Mare Bulc, Neda R. Bric, etc.). Maska's productions regularly appear the [[Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance]].
+Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary, visual, and new media events by established and innovative artists as well as first projects of the youngest generation. The performances range from engaged interdisciplinary performances tackling issues such as identity, intimacy, (Slovene) political reality, and mass entertainment to more genre dance works. Maska regularly enters co-productions with other cultural and contemporary art organisations, its productions are often awarded and featured in the programmes of the [[Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance]], [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]], and [[Week of Slovenian Drama]].
-''We Are All Marlene Dietrich FOR'' (2005) was a Maska's co-production with Iceland Dance Company, in collaboration with Reykjavik Arts Festival. The project received an EU grant as a part of Trans Danse Europe 2003-2004. Yasminne Hugonet's ''Of Other'' (O drugem) (2007) was co-produced by Synalephe (France), the [[French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana]], and [[City Museum of Ljubljana]].
-In 2008 Maska organised the ''East Dance Academy'', a project aimed at interdisciplinarity and strong social contextualization of artistic production. The event included reconstructed performances, screenings of dance and performances from 60s and 70s, live archiving, debates, and lectures. With the project, Maska introduced the platform ''ARTCHIVE – Contaminated with History'', a one-year programme intended to historicization of contemporary performing arts in Eastern Europe. East Dance Academy is part of the international project ''What to Affirm What to Perform?'', a cooperation between Allianz Kulturstiftung, Centre for Drama Art Zagreb, The National Center of Dance Bucharest, and Tanzquartier Wien.
+{{YouTube|07jig45wq4I}}
-The 2009 event ''Shocking Gala Show'', marking the 40th anniversary of the emergence of experimental theatre group Pupilija Ferkeverk, included performances, exhibitions, a conference, and lectures (among others by Hans-Thies Lehmann, Ramsey Burt. The events were financed also through Erste Stiftung, Allianz Kulturstiftung, and the [[European Cultural Foundation (ECF)]].
+''Monument G'' (Spomenik G) trailer
-Visual and intermedia production includes co-productions with [[Cona Institute]] and [[Intima Virtual Base]], whose project "Oppera Internettikka Bollywooddikka", co-produced by Maska, was performed live in in New Delhi, India, in the frame of the ''CeC & CaC - The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave'', presented by The Academy of Electronic Arts and The India International Centre in 2006.
-Maska's latest productions were on tour in numerous European countries, USA, Asia and Africa.
+Visual and intermedia production, among others, includes co-productions with [[Aksioma Institute]], [[Cona Institute]], [[Intima Virtual Base]], the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana|International Centre of Graphic Arts &ndash; MGLC]], etc.
-Since 2009 Maska also runs the rehearsal space in Šenjakob's former elementary school Šentjakob at the suburbs of Ljubljana. The space offers two small rooms for rehearsals, meetings, and lectures.
+== Maska publishing ==
-== Maska Publishing ==
+Maska's wide-ranging publishing programme is aimed at offering critical writing on media and society as well as on reflecting the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia, and new-media/intermedia art.
-Maska is engaged in publishing books related to the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, opera, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia and new-media art.
+=== Book series ===
-* The '''TRANSformations book series''' (TRANSformacije) covers contemporary performing arts theory, introducing some new terminology and conceptual frameworks by Slovene or foreign authors, including titles such as Hans-Thies Lehmann's ''Postdramatic Theatre'', Amelia Jones' ''Body Art. Performing the Subject'', co-published by [[Študentska založba Publishing House]], Nicolas Bourriaud's ''Relational Aesthetics and Postproduction'', Bojana Kunst's ''Dangerous Connections'', Alexei Monroe's ''Plural Monolith. Laibach and NSK'', Jacques Attali's ''Noise'', Aldo Milohnić's ''Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art'', etc.
-* The '''Mediactions book series''' (Mediakcije) introduces critical writing on media and society. The series brought translations of ''New Watchdogs'' by Serge Halimi, followed by Naomi Klein’s ''No logo'', and ''Monopoly'' by Sandra B. Hrvatin and Lenart J. Kučič, dealing with the issue of ownership in Slovene media. Includes also ''A Hacker Manifesto'' by McKenzie Wark, Mike Davis' ''Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb'', and Ariel Dorfmann's and Armand Mattelart's ''How to Read Donald Duck''.
+The '''TRANSformations''' (TRANSformacije) book series covers contemporary performing arts theory, introducing some new terminology and conceptual frameworks by Slovene or foreign authors, such as Hans-Thies Lehmann, Amelia Jones, [[Mladen Dolar]], [[Aleš Erjavec]], Jonathan Burrows, Nicolas Bourriaud, [[Bojana Kunst]], [[Aldo Milohnić]], Andrew Hewitt, etc.
-Special issues include books related to performance practise and its reflection, such as ''Janez Janša - Life [in Progress]'', containing 55 instructions from the performance and exhibition of the same title and is accompanied with critical writing, Marcel Stefančič's ''Janez Janša: Biography'' (in Slovene), and two joint issues of Maska journal with the Croatian journal for performing arts ''Frakcija'' and ''Performance Research''.
+The '''Mediactions''' (Mediakcije) book series offers some critical, even subversive titles from the fields of media and society. The series has thus far brought translations of authors such as Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe, Serge Halimi, Oliver Razac, Robert Phaller, Naomi Klein, [[Sandra B. Hrvatin]] and [[Lenart J. Kučič]], etc.
-In 2008, Maska launched the project ''Library Under the Trees'', where you can borrow Maska’s editions and enjoy the books and journals for free. The ''Library'' is located in the meadow by the Tivoli Lake in Park Tivoli, Ljubljana.
-==== Maska Journal ====
+For a detailed list of titles see below.
-The performing arts journal Maska (in English: The Mask) is a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name launched in 1920 (for more on the journal's history see Janez Janša's text below). In 1993 the publication of the journal was taken over by Institute Maska, bringing critical reflection on current productions (domestic and international), texts about the key reformers of the twentieth-century scene, and translations of contemporary theoretical texts. Since 2002, the bilingual (English and Slovene) journal appears three times a year and is mostly topic-related. So far over 50 theoreticians and writers have written for the journal.
-Some recent titles include: ''Art, Society, and Feelings''; ''Performing Visuality, Performing Life: practices in Slovenia from the 60s to 80s''; ''History, Experience, Archive''; ''Europe in Capitalist A(rt) Minor''; ''Nomenclature of Space''; ''Art of Writing''; two issues devoted to an overview of Slovene contemporary dance and art production ''Does Production Dance Alone?''; ''Art in the Grip of Education'', etc. Each issue includes also interviews with artists and theoreticians, reviews of performances and books, as well as articles on the cultural politics.
+=== Maska, Performing Arts Journal ===
+The institute has been publishing the performing arts journal ''Maska'' (The Mask), a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name launched in 1920, since 1993, with bilingual (English and Slovenian) editions available since 2002.
+For a detailed overview see [[Maska, Performing Arts Journal|Maska Journal]].
-Maska journal has participated in numerous collaborative projects: ''Fama'', a bilingual (English and German) journal, published in co-operation with ''Frakcija'' journal of Zagreb to coincide with the Munich Dance Festival, which was dedicated to the thematisation of the status of the body in different cultures and artistic practices; together with ''Performance Research'' and again ''Frakcija'', Maska prepared an issue devoted to the positioning of aesthetic forms, the re-mapping and reconfiguring of East and West Europe, reflecting on the similarities and differences in assumptions about form and relational structures within the apparently shared European frameworks. The on-line journal in Kassel 2007, which compiled the articles that had been published on the leitmotifs of Documenta 12 in the more than 100 media around the world, also involved Maska journal.
+== Maska symposium ==
-With the fall/winter 2006 issue of Maska, the journal is designed by the Slovakian designer Martin Mastrik, who received an honourable mention at the Slovak National Prize for Design. Mastrik was chosen as Maska’s designer on the basis of a design competition.
+Maska symposium's basic project is the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, a year-round programme featuring internationally acclaimed scholars and artists, aimed at enhancing analytical and critical thinking about performing arts and facilitating the understanding of historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts to create new forms of reflection. The seminar has thus far hosted some prominent names in the fields of philosophy and theory as well as makers themselves, such as Amelia Jones, Jacques Rancière, Bojana Cvejić, Chantall Mouffe, [[Bojana Kunst]], Tim Etchells, Rabih Mroué, Svetlana Mintcheva, etc.
-== Maska Symposium ==
+The participants of the seminar take part in the ongoing platform ''The Audience Council'', organised by [[Bunker Institute]], [[Via Negativa]], and [[City of Women]] since 2013, which aims to encourage reflection and stimulate an exchange of the audience's views.
-Maska Symposium's basic project is the ''Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts'', co-organised by [[Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre]]. Seminar is an all year programme, with lectures by internationally acclaimed scholars, artists, and writers. The '''2009/2010 seminar''' takes place under the heading ''Artistic and Social Assemblage of Bodies: Contemporary Performing Arts and the Powerlessness of the Political'', including lectures, talks, debates, workshops, etc.. Previous seminars discussed topics, such as historization of contemporary performing arts, dance dramaturgy procedures, parallel practices of contemporary art, etc.. Maska's Symposium is led by the theoretician and dramaturge Bojana Kunst.
+== See also ==
+* [[Maska, Performing Arts Journal]]
+* [[Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia]]
-Maska regularly organises workshops and lectures connected to dramaturgy of dance in collaboration with international experts in the field of contemporary performing arts. Thus in 2009, it has prepared dramaturgical advising by Elke van Campenhout, a Belgian dramaturge and researcher in the field of art, Ivana Ivković, a dramaturge, and Toni Cots, a choreographer of L'Animal A L'Esquena, Spain. The sessions encourage open and critical dialogue on dramaturgical questions that arise during the creative process. In 2008 and on, the participants of the seminar are taking part in the productions and projects of [[Ukrep Festival]], organised by [[Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL)]].
-In June 2009, Maska's Symposium organised a panel ''Difficulties With Contemporaneity. On Historicization Processes in Contemporary Performing Arts'' in the frame of the 15the Performance Studies International Conference, held in Zagreb, Cratia, the purpose of which was to reflect on the processes of historicization in contemporary performing arts which were analysed through theoretical reflections, presentations of working methods, and artistic research. The panel was part of Maska's one-year programme East Dance Academy and the project ARTCHIVE - Contaminated with History.
+==External links==
+* [http://www.maska.si/index.php?id=132&L=1 Maska Institute website]
+* [http://www.maska.si/index.php?id=129&L=1 A list of titles in Maska Publishing programme]
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jig45wq4I&feature=related The ''Monument G'' performance's trailer on YouTube]
-== See also ==
-* [[Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance]]
-* [[Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre]]
-* [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]]
-* [[City of Women]]
-* [[Golden Bird Award]]
-* [[French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana]]
-* [[City Museum of Ljubljana]]
-* [[European Cultural Foundation (ECF)]]
-* [[Cona Institute]]
-* [[Intima Virtual Base]]
-* [[Ukrep Festival]]
-* [[Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL)]]
-* [[Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM)]]
-==External links==
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-* [http://www.maska.si/en/?redirect=439 Maska Institute website]
-* [http://www.maska.si/en/us/history/197/emil_hrvatin.html Janez Janša's text on the history of Maska Journal ''If There's No Mission, a Mission Becomes Possible'']
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