Maska, zavod za založniško, kulturno in producentsko dejavnost
Metelkova 6/II, SI-1000 Ljubljana
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Janez Janša, Director
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Past Events
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14 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024
A performance of "Sex Education II: FIGHT - Spolna vzgoja II: Borba", a final part of a cycle of performative lectures on women's sexual pleasure, reconstructing the struggle for reproductive freedom in Yugoslavia. Directed by Tjaša Črnigoj and coproduced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute, and City of Women.
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21 Dec 2023
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30 Jun 2023
Performance Crises directed by Žiga Divjak and produced by Mladinsko Theatre and The New Post Office in co-production with Maska Institute, Bitef (Belgrade/Serbia) and the Domino Association (Zagreb/Croatia). A part of the ACT project - Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project.
at the Festival Perforacije Zagreb
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7 May 2023
Italy Ravenna Teatro Rossi
Gejm directed by Žiga Divjak, produced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute
at the Festival POLIS Teatro
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11 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023
Performance Crises directed by Žiga Divjak and produced by Mladinsko Theatre and The New Post Office in co-production with Maska Institute, Bitef (Belgrade/Serbia) and the Domino Association (Zagreb/Croatia). A part of the ACT project - Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project. Related: Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Berlin, SKICA Berlin, Slovenian Cultural Centre
at the RADAR OST
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18 Oct 2020
The opening of the festival with the The Final Match directed by Janez Janša / (Maska Institute), an open-air installation Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Vadim Fiškin and online discussion with the artist,
at the Steirischer Herbst
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9 Aug 2019
The theatre performance 6, directed by Žiga Divjak and produced by Maska Institute and Mladinsko Theatre,
at the International Meeting of Free Theatres Thealter
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4 Jul 2019
7 Jul 2019
Screenings of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute, in the framework of Simposio,
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18 Jun 2019
15 Sep 2019
The performative installation Life [In Progress] by Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute, at the Data Corpus – A vida decodificada exhibition,
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17 Nov 2018
The screening of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute,
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24 Oct 2018
28 Oct 2018
The performative installation Red Web by Olja Grubić and Živa Petrič, co-produced by Aksioma Institute and City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture; the exhibition Rule 34 by Iza Pavlina, produced by Aksioma Institute; and the theatre performance 6, directed by Žiga Divjak and co-produced by Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Institute,
at the ZOOM Festival
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6 Oct 2018
The lecture Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute) at the International Conference Concerning Matters and Truths,
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14 Feb 2018
16 Feb 2018
The Austrian première of Something's in the Air by Janez Janša, Boštjan Narat, Irena Preda, and Irena Tomažin, produced by Maska Institute, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA) and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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27 Jan 2018
24 Mar 2018
Screenings of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute, in the framework of the exhibition Ambiguous Bodies - Timeless Interpretations,
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23 Nov 2017
The screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), with director Janez Janša attending,
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25 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša attended by the artists, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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20 Oct 2017
21 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša with Greek subtitles, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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1 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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17 Jun 2017
18 Jun 2017
The Republic of Slovenia, produced by the Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Institute, My Name is Janez Janša, a film screening and the 350 Janez Janša Bottles project presentation, Bojana Kunst's lecture and book presentation (Artist at Work) and a concert by Laibach
at the Malta Festival Poznań
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26 Mar 2017
Falcon!, a performance by Janez Janša and Iztok Kovač, produced by EnKnapGroup (EKG) and co-produced by Maska Institute,
at the Tanzmainz Festival
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23 Mar 2017
Falcon!, a performance by Janez Janša and Iztok Kovač, produced by EnKnapGroup (EKG) and co-produced by Maska Institute, followed by a discussion with the performers
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13 Mar 2017
Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute) at SUSMA! Art as Activism in Times of Political Silencing
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10 Mar 2017
11 Mar 2017
Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute), Psycho Geographic by Irwin, Protestival by Vuk Ćosić, and a screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the meeting Strange Correspendences
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2 Mar 2017
A screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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17 Nov 2016
19 Nov 2016
Mephisto, co-produced by Maska Institute and Mini Theatre, and Our Violence and Your Violence, produced by Mladinsko Theatre, at the Desiré Central Station
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28 Oct 2016
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8 Jul 2016
A screening My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at A Long Night of Eastern European Theatre
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17 Jun 2016
The performance Made with Love by Teja Reba (Maska Institute) and a talk with Janez Janša, Teja Reba, Bojana Kunstl and Renata Salecl at the Tanzkongress 2016
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30 May 2016
1 Jun 2016
Nótt, produced by the Dance Theatre Ljubljana, and Falcon!, performed by Janez Janša and Iztok Kovač and produced by En-Knap Productions and Maska Institute, at the 33rd Dance Week Festival
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17 Dec 2015
A screening My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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9 Dec 2015
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and a Skype talk with Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute)
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30 May 2015
31 May 2015
A Speculative Glossary, a research project by Maska Institute, and a concert by N’toko at the Trans-Europa Europeans Festival of Performing Arts, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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19 Jan 2015
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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14 Jan 2015
A talk with artist Janez Janša at the launch of his book Life II [in Progress] (Maska Institute, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana)
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17 Dec 2014
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and a presentation of the project FREE Janez Janša and Mladen Dolar's booklet What's in a Name?
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10 Dec 2014
Name Readymade, a lecture and performance by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute), organised as part of the exhibition Despite Efficiency: Labour
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15 Nov 2014
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26 Oct 2014
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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15 Oct 2014
Falcon!, a performance by Janez Janša and Iztok Kovač, produced by EnKnapGroup (EKG) and co-produced by Maska Institute, at the 19th International Festival of Contemporary Art 4+4 Days in Motion
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25 Sep 2014
15 Nov 2014
NAME Readymade, a lecture performance by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute), and Credits, an exhibition by the same artists, at the group exhibition Dear Art
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24 Sep 2014
25 Sep 2014
All Together Now!, by Mare Bulc and performers, produced by Maska Institute and co-produced by Bunker Institute and Exodos Institute, Škrip Inc., produced by Maska Institute and co-produced by Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and in cooperation with Bunker Institute, and Pavla above the Precipice, produced by Mladinsko Theatre, at the 39th International Theatre Festival MOT
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12 Sep 2014
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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4 Aug 2014
6 Aug 2014
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, co-produced by Mini Theatre, and The Debt of Rakef Saška / The Debt of RS, a performance by Saška Rakef and produced by Maska Institute, at the 18th International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Zadar Snova
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16 Jul 2014
The film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the festival Santarcangelo 14
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30 Jun 2014
All Together Now!, by Mare Bulc and performers, produced by Maska Institute and co-produced by Bunker Institute and Exodos Institute, at the Perforations Festival
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17 May 2014
The film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival
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9 May 2014
7 Jun 2014
My Fiction is Real, a joint exhibition also featuring the installation Troika by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) and a screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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27 Mar 2014
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22 Mar 2014
The film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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13 Mar 2014
Radical naming strategies in art and politics, a presentation by Janez Janša and a screening of excerpts from the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute, and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
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5 Mar 2014
16 Mar 2014
Damned be the traitor of his homeland! by Oliver Frljić (Mladinsko Theatre), Sad Sam Lucky by Matija Ferlin (Emanat Institute), Who is Next? by Janez Janša (Maska Institute), and Just the Beginning produced by Via Negativa, at the Festival of the Independent Balkan Scene Transitions: 1. Balkans
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23 Nov 2013
All Together Now!, by Mare Bulc and performers, produced by Maska Institute and co-produced by Bunker Institute and Exodos Institute, at the Live Art Festival LIMIT
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21 Nov 2013
12 Jan 2014
I am another world - Artistic Authorship between Desubjectivization and Recanonization, a joint exhibition also featuring works by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Maska Institute, Emanat Institute, Aksioma Institute),
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20 Nov 2013
24 Nov 2013
Switzerland Basel,Bellinzona,Zürich Gessnerallee,Kaserne Basel,Teatro Sociale Bellinzona
They Live (In Search of Text Zero) by Milan Marković and Maja Pelević, produced by Maska Institute
at the Festival Culturescapes Balkan 2013
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15 Nov 2013
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14 Nov 2013
4 Dec 2013
An exhibition on the Janez Janša Case by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Maska Institute, Emanat Institute, Aksioma Institute) in the framework of the project Smuggling Anthologies
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10 Nov 2013
A presentation of Bojana Kunst's book Artist At Work: The Proximity of Art and Capitalism, published by Maska Institute, in the framework of the lecture series Subversive Art & Theory,
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9 Nov 2013
12 Dec 2013
A number of screenings of the documentary My name is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the Festival Culturescapes Balkan 2013
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9 Nov 2013
A screening of the documentary My name is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute, and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the Influencers Festival
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23 Oct 2013
25 Oct 2013
Screenings of films My name is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), Thanks for Sunderland, directed by Slobodan Maksimović and produced by Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and the short film Worst Day Ever, produced by the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), at the XVIII International TV Festival Bar 2013
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5 Oct 2013
A screening of the documentary My name is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at AND2013 - the Festival of New Cinema, Digital Culture & Art
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12 Sep 2013
Janez Janša's lecture performance NAME Readymade, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute,
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11 Sep 2013
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5 Sep 2013
Janez Janša's lecture performance NAME Readymade, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute,
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25 Jun 2013
26 Jul 2013
A screening of the documentary My name is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), a master class by the director, and the installation Triplet by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša as a part of the joint exhibition Mocumentary: Reality Is Not Enough, at Media Forum
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31 May 2013
NAME Readymade, a project by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute
at the Spring Festival Graz
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17 May 2013
A screening of the documentary My name is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and a talk with the director
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13 Apr 2013
27 Apr 2013
Czech Republic Boskovice,Brno,Olomouc,Ostrava,Prague Art Brno,Art Ostrava,Bio Central Hradec Králové,Lucerna,Panorama Boskovice,Světozor
A Trip by Nejc Gazvoda (Perfo Production), The Year of Hip Hop (Luksuz Production), My name is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the 20th Days of European Film, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Prague,
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23 Mar 2013
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16 Mar 2013
19 Mar 2013
Sad Sam Lucky by Matija Ferlin, produced by Emanat Institute, the film My name is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and They Live (In Search of Text Zero) by Milan Marković and Maja Pelević, produced by Maska Institute at the Oslo Interantional Theatre Festival
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31 Jan 2013
2 Feb 2013
Maja Smrekar participating in a chance meeting in the name of Green Rush and Janez Janša (Maska Institute) at the conference The Outsourced / Outsourcing User (Part I): My Name Is Janez Janša at Transmediale 2013 – BWPWAP
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15 Dec 2012
The video installation Wailing Wall and a lecture by Janez Janša (Maska Institute) at the theme day Green Rules
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7 Dec 2012
NAME Readymade project by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute at the exhibition Acts of Voicing
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22 Nov 2012
25 Nov 2012
Who is next, a performance by Janez Janša (Maska Institute) and Via Negativa
at the LIMIT - Live Art Festival
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13 Oct 2012
The More of Us There Are, the Faster We Will Reach Our Goal, a documentary performance by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Maska Institute)
at the eXplore dance festival
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25 Sep 2012
The more of us there are, the faster we will reach the goal, directed by Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute)
at the International Theatre Festival Nitra
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28 Sep 2012
NAME Readymade project by Janez Janša,Janez Janša, and Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute, Zdenka Badovinac, and Irwin participating in the 24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art
at the Steirischer Herbst
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15 Sep 2012
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12 Sep 2012
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7 Jul 2012
NAME Readymade, a lecture performance by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute
at the Festival Europe (to the power of) n
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23 Jun 2012
The project Küche Elf by Janez Janša (Maska Institute) and students of Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
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14 Apr 2012
NAME Readymade, lecture/performance by Janez Janša by Aksioma Institute and Maska Institute at
at the Ivy Film Festival
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14 Apr 2012
NAME Readymade, lecture/performance by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and Maska Institute
at the Festival TUPP
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27 Jan 2012
28 Jan 2012
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26 Nov 2011
Dialogue Finally Together On Time by Bojana Kunst and Ivana Müller, performance-lecture NAME Readymade by Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute, Forum Stadpark, Aksioma Institute at the Encounters in Synchronous Time project
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15 Jan 2012
NAME Readymade project by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute, a part of the Scenarios about Europe: Scenario 2 exhibition and a lecture
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14 Oct 2011
15 Oct 2011
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23 Sep 2011
Fake it! by Janez Janša produced by Exodos Institute and Maska Institute,
at the International Contemporary Dance Festival C/U
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14 Sep 2011
21 Sep 2011
NAME Readymade produced by Maska Institute, Forum Stadtpark and Aksioma Institute at the 17th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)
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7 Jul 2011
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22 Dec 2010
Spomenik G by Janez Janša and produced by Maska Institute and Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL)
at the Belgrade International Theatre Festival BITEF
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22 Sep 2010
Spomenik G, a reconstruction directed by Dušan Jovanović and Janez Janša, produced by Maska Institute
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30 Aug 2010
4 Sep 2010
Croatia Rijeka Croatian Cultural Centre (HKD) at Sušak and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Janez Janša in Rijeka - 3 performances and exhibition by J.J. produced by Maska Institute
at the ZOOM Festival
Maska productions
Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary, visual, and new media 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. Maska's latest productions have toured in numerous European countries, the USA, Asia and Africa.
Since 2009 Maska also runs the rehearsal space in the former elementary school in the Šentjakob suburb of Ljubljana. The space offers two small rooms for rehearsals, meetings, and lectures.
Performances
Janez Janša has made reconstructions of the founding performances of experimental Slovene theatre from the 1960s (Pupilia Papa Pupilo and the Pupilčeks [Pupilija papa pupilo in pupilčki] (2006), awarded at the 41st Bitef in Belgrade, and Monument G [Spomenik G] (2009)). His Slovene National Theatre [Slovensko narodno gledališče] (2008) won the award for innovation and aesthetic breakthrough at the 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 has also produced work by Ivan Peternelj, Magdalena Reiter, Mare Bulc, Neda R. Bric, Teja Reba, Jelena Rusjan, etc.. Jelena Rusjan's Škrip Inc. (2013) and Mare Bulc' All Together Now!, both theatre-music projects with musicians as performers, (2013) have been included in the off programme at the 2014 Week of Slovenian Drama. Maska's productions regularly appear in the Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance.
Monument G [Spomenik G] trailer
International coproductions
We Are All Marlene Dietrich FOR (2005) was a Maska co-production with Iceland Dance Company, in collaboration with Reykjavik Arts Festival. The project was funded through the Trans Danse Europe 2003–2004 which received support from the Culture 2000 programme of the European Commission. Yasmine Hugonnet'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 a strong social contextualisation of artistic production. The event included reconstructed performances, screenings of dance and performances from the 1960s and 1970s, live archiving, debates, and lectures. With the project, Maska introduced the platform ARTCHIVE – Contaminated with History, a one-year programme intended to examine the historicisation 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.
The 2009 event Shocking Gala Show, marking the 40th anniversary of the emergence of the experimental theatre group Pupilija Ferkeverk, included performances, exhibitions, a conference, and lectures (among others by Hans-Thies Lehmann and Ramsey Burt). The events were financed also through Erste Stiftung, Allianz Kulturstiftung, and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).
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 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 publishing
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, as well as critical writing on media and society.
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's Body Art: Performing the Subject, co-published by Študentska založba Publishing House, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics and Postproduction, Bojana Kunst's Dangerous Connections and Artist At Work. The Proximity of Art and Capitalism, Alexei Monroe's Plural Monolith: Laibach and NSK, Jacques Attali's Noise, and 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 Aisthesis: Scenes From the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques Ranciere, Chantal Mouffe's Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, New Watchdogs by Serge Halimi, Naomi Klein’s No Logo, and Monopoly by Sandra B. Hrvatin and Lenart J. Kučič, dealing with the issue of ownership in Slovene media. The series also includes A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark, Mike Davis's Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, Ariel Dorfmann's and Armand Mattelart's How to Read Donald Duck.
Special issues include books related to performance practice 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; No one should have seen this, a chronological review (in English) of ten-year creative endeavours of Via Negativa, one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing art of the last decade; a scientific monograph Dynamics of Change in the 20th Century Slovenian Theatre; Marcel Stefančič's Janez Janša: Biography (in Slovenian), and two joint issues of Maska journal with the Croatian journal for performing arts Frakcija and Performance Research.
For a detailed list of titles see http://www.maska.si/index.php?id=129&L=1.
Maska, Performing Arts Journal
The performing arts journal Maska (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 Maska Institute, bringing critical reflection on current productions (domestic and international), texts about the key reformers of the 20th-century scene, and translations of contemporary theoretical texts. Since 2002, the bilingual (English and Slovenian) journal appears three times a year and is mostly topic-related. For a detailed overview see Maska Journal.
Maska symposium
Maska symposium's basic project is the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, co-organised by Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre. The seminar is an all-year programme featuring internationally acclaimed scholars, artists, dramaturgs, and writers. The seminar aims at enhancing analytical and critical thinking about performing arts and facilitating the reading of historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts to create new forms of reflection on and fulfill the potential of contemporary stage arts. The seminars have discussed topics such as the historicisation of contemporary performing arts, dance dramaturgy procedures, parallel practices of contemporary art, artistic and social assemblage of bodies, animated forms, etc. The participants of the seminar are taking part in The Audience Council, organised by Bunker Institute, Via Negativa, and Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia, which aims to form the space for reflection, discussion, and dialogue and to propel a vibrant exchange of exclusively spectator’s experience, opinions, reflections and expectations.
The Symposium has thus far hosted some prominent names in the fields of philosophy and theory as well as makers themselves, such as Amelia Jones, Bojana Cvejić, Chantall Mouffe, Bojana Kunst, Tim Etchells, Rabih Mroué, Svetlana Mintcheva etc. In 2015, upon the Slovenian translation of Rancière's Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art, Maska co-organised with the Slovene Society of Aesthetics an international conference The Aesthetic Regime of Art: Dimensions of Rancière’s theory, which hosted a number of panelists as well as the author himself. In 2013, upon the publication Maurizio Lazzarato's book The Making of the Indebted Man in Slovenian by Maska Publications, the symposium organised a lecture and a round-table, in cooperation with Tribuna Magazine.
In June 2009, Maska's Symposium organised the panel Difficulties With Contemporaneity. On Historicization Processes in Contemporary Performing Arts in the frame of the 15th Performance Studies International Conference, held in Zagreb, Croatia, the purpose of which was to reflect on the processes of historicisation 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.
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