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− | The performing arts magazine [[Maska Magazine|Maska]] (in English: ''The Mask'') is a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name which was launched in [[Established::1920]]. | + | The performing arts magazine [[Maska Magazine|Maska]] (in English: ''The Mask'') is a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name which was launched in [[Established::1920]]. Since 1993 published by [[Maska Institute]], this bilingual (English and Slovene) magazine appears three times a year and is mostly topic-related. Maska brings critical reflection on current productions (domestic and international), texts about the key reformers of the twentieth-century scene, and translations of contemporary theoretical texts. |
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− | + | 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. | |
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
==International cooperation== | ==International cooperation== |
Revision as of 17:23, 15 May 2010
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 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.
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.
International cooperation
Maska Magazine has participated in numerous collaborative projects, e.g. Fama, a bilingual (English and German) magazine published in co-operation with Frakcija Magazine 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. The online 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, involved also Maska magazine.
Maska magazine’s new design by Martin Mistrik received an honorable mention at the Slovak National Prize for Design in 2007.