productions
ANA KUZMANIĆ: A CHANGE FROM THE BENCH
INTERVENTION IN THE PARK, VOLTINO NEIGHBOURHOOD
JUNE - SEPTEMBER 2017
PRESENTATION AT BAZA, JUNE 30, 2017, 7 P.M.
If you dream alone, that is just a dream. If we dream together, that is reality.
- Brazilian folk poem
Neighborhood in today's context implies, on the one hand, the physical sharing of housing space and, on the other, a complex relationship between personal and collective, often accompanied by a search for the community in an urban context. Is there any relationship between these two implications, spatial and relational, today, in the unstable conditions of work and life? If yes, how should we build it? The intervention A Change from the Bench explores the notion of neighborhood and the potential of individual ideas to create something common [...]
PETRA BELC: FILM PROGRAMME "HOUSING ON FILM"
CURATOR: Petra Belc
The third screening of "Politics of Representation"
Saturday, July 15, 2017, at 9 p.m. at Trešnejvački plac
Housebound (B. Marsch, 200/2004), documentary, 8'
I only want you to love me (R. W. Fassbinder, 1976), feature film, 104'
Although different in styles, genres and periods, a short-length documentary Housebound by Bernhard Marsch and feature film I only want you to love me by R. W. Fassbinder communicate on several common levels, where the most obvious one is the testimony on the autobiographical efforts of the author to face segments of their own lives, fractured through their relationship with the concept of living space [...]
LJUBICA LETINIĆ and BLOK: Radio BAZA
one-day radio station
June 13, 2017
93.9 MHz, broadcasting from Adžijina 11
In the context of the crisis in reporting, the explosion of fake news and the narrowing of the existing field of radio reducing it to entertainment industry, the very premise of radio art becomes a challenge. That is why we are launching a pilot edition of Radio BAZA that brings together a number of artists, radiophonists, researchers, activists, musicians and the local community at Zagreb's Trešnjevka, insisting on the return to the original promise of this media [...]
educations
PETJA DIMITROVA: ON ARTISTIC EDUCATION IN NEOLIBERALISM
PUBLIC LECTURE WITHIN THE POLITICAL SCHOOL FOR ARTISTS (AND ALL INTERESTED)
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017, 7 P.M.
BAZA, B. ADŽIJE STR 11
Under conditions of the neoliberal policies, the art academies and art institutions are becoming more and more corporate and promote "new products" for the "lowest prices". Pushed by privatization, economisation, selection, elitism and class-racial exclusiveness, and then "internationalization", which actually involves only the inclusion of the EU passports holders in the educational process, that is, those “within” the borders of the EU migration regime, the art schools and academies are in a state we need to constantly reflect. What does art and "becoming an artist" mean in the context of the aforementioned standardizations, postgraduate education, precarious working conditions, etc.? What kind of curricula in art academies and schools do we need in order to organize new models of learning and strengthening social relationships, common goods, collectivity and solidarity [...]
ON CULTURAL POLITICS: CHANGE OF (DIS)COURSE
ROUND TABLE
THURSDAY, May 4, 2017, 7 p.m.
BAZA, B. ADŽIJE STR 11
In the past year and a half the issues of culture and cultural politics have been filling up newspaper columns and motivating protests and petitions day by day. While in daily politics culture serves mainly as a platfrorm for collecting political points in the bickering among different political parties, the voices of producers from different sectors of culture – from dancers through filmmakers, poets and visual artists to journalists – on the other, are starting to talk more about the neuralgic points in their fields: problems with infrastructure, cutting the budget, abolishing relevant events and publishings [...]
IČO VIDMAR: POWER AND POWERLESSNESS OF THE MUSIC LABOUR UNIONS IN NEW YORK
SYNDICALISM OF INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS OF WINTER JAZZ FEST
PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF POLITICAL SCHOOL FOR ARTISTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 30 2017, AT 8 P.M.
BAZA, B. ADŽIJA STR 11
When we think about independent musicians, we regularly emphasize their independent status, models of self-organization and particularly their artistic freedom. But what happens if we think about musicians as workers?
The work of independent musicians in the club's economy of New York City has the characteristics of a flexible, temporary work, unprotected by labour union contracts in accordance with the restrictive US labor laws. In 2012, a group of independent musicians of "new music" (the new jazz and improvised music) associated with a branch of the American musical labour union AFM (American Federation of Musicians) exerted pressure on [...]