[syndicate] Raw Symbiosis, 9th -17th October, Ljubljana and Ptuj

[anna balint]

14. International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women

9th – 17th October 2008, Ljubljana and Ptuj

Raw Symbiosis / Animals-Nature-Culture

Is it time to sit back and relax or is it time for action?

The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture – City of  
Women is announcing the 14th international City of Women festival,  
titled Raw Symbiosis. This year's programme, again intended for a  
broad and varied festival audience, focuses on the (self) 
understanding of culture through nature, on power relations through  
environmental discourse, on human relationship to animals, the  
natural, and the transient, and finally on technological tools or  
extensions that testify to a new nature.

The 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women  
will present and be represented by 60 international artists,  
theoreticians and activists from a brad plethora of disciplines. Our  
guests come from 21 countries from around the globe and are all  
innovative in their approach to the subject. To art, knowledge and  
freedom of thought enthusiasts the festival will offer one weak of  
more than 35 events – more than a third gratis – including  
programmes specifically designed for children and youth. A special  
feature of this year’s festival edition is an encompassing free-of- 
charge educational programme at the Škuc Gallery with lectures and  
workshops presented by local environmentalist initiatives and  
international guests.


Artists, theoreticians and activists of the 14th International  
Festival City of Women:

performing arts - Sanne Van Rijn (Amsterdam/Gent), Julia Bardsley  
(London), Conservas (Barcelona), SubRosa (Chicago/Pittsburgh),  
Violeta Luna (Mexico City/San Francisco), A2 Company (London/Tel  
Aviv), Tina Valentan (Maribor/Ljubljana), Bara Kolenc (Ljubljana),  
Jana Prepeluh (Ljubljana), Leja Jurišić and Hanna Sybille Müller  
(Ljubljana/Berlin)

visual and intermedia arts - Natalie Jeremijenko (New York), Isabelle  
Krieg (Zürich), Selda Asal (Istanbul), Kinda Hassan (Beirut)

music – Iva Nova (St. Petersburg), My Name is Ann (Prague),  
Subshrubs (Kranj/Vienna), Sajsi (Belgrade), Klaus (Rijeka)

film and animation – Isild Le Besco (Paris), Irena Salina (Paris/New  
York), b.h. Yael (Toronto), Vera Neubauer (London)

theory and practice – Karmen Ratković (Zagreb), Breda Kralj  
(Ljubljana), Hana Al Bayaty (Bordeaux/Cairo), subRosa (Chicago/ 
Pittsburgh) and others.

Festival venues: Cankarjev dom, ŠKUC Gallery, Kinodvor, The Old Power  
Station, Glej Theatre, Ljubljana Dance Theatre, Kapelica Gallery,  
Menza pri koritu and Alkatraz Gallery - AKC Metelkova mesto and ZOO  
Ljubljana.


Invitation to attend the festival workshop (free of charge) with  
British performing artists A2:

future of death
9th – 15th October 2008, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana
15th October at 9 pm, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana – collective  
public performance

The 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women  
will feature a five-day workshop focusing on human attitudes toward  
death and dying, held in Kapelica Gallery and conducted by  
acknowledged artists Anton Mirto (London) and Alit Kreiz (Tel Aviv)  
aka A2 Company.

Future of Death workshop presents a unique opportunity for us to  
confront the emotions arising from our own mortality and the death of  
others, as well as to become aware of the thoughts, feelings and  
experiences of other people dealing with death. The performance  
unfolds in a manner which is simple and direct, yet bursting with  
metaphorical abundance: each “performer” takes the stage with a  
bag of dirt which he empties onto another individual lying before him/ 
her. This person then lies down as well and waits to be sprinkled  
with soil by the next person to arrive on the stage, and so on…

The intensity and emotional vibrancy of each performance within the  
performance reflects the contribution of each participant and the  
group dynamics or connectedness, which the workshop implies and  
delivers. In view of the conceptual background of the Future of Death  
project – the aim to reveal how fear of death relates to and conveys  
different cultural codes, religious beliefs and social environments  
– it is important that the group be heterogeneous. Therefore, we  
would like to extend the broadest invitation to all those interested  
to join the workshop: women, men, children, young people, adults and  
the elderly, people from various age groups, occupational fields,  
nationalities and (religious and other) beliefs….

The workshop will last four hours per day, either in the morning or  
afternoon, depending on participants’ majority preference. The  
conclusion of the workshop will be followed by a presentation of the  
workshop in the form of a collective public performance, on Wednesday  
the 15th of October.

Application deadline: 10th September 2008. For additional information  
and application contact: pija at cityofwomen.org / T: 040 552 374. More  
on A2 Company at: www.a2company.org 
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