FD13 residency for the arts presents: 
“Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body” – a film directed by Marta Popivoda
6pm – 7pm, Weitz Cinema, Carleton College (following the conversation with Bojana Cvejić)

Carleton College
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057

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YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY

Serbia ::: France ::: Germany
62 min ::: 2013

“This research-based essay film is a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugoslavia, its dramatic end, and its recent transformation into a few democratic nation states. Experience of the dissolution of the state, and today’s “wild” capitalist reestablishment of the class system in Serbia are my reasons for going back through the media images and tracing the way one social system changed by performing itself in public space.” (Marta Popivoda)

The film deals with the question of how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s, 5th October revolution, etc.). Going back through the images, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state. The film ends at the doors of contemporary Serbian democracy and neoliberal capitalism, demanding that we reflect on why citizens so easily abandoned the ideas of socialist collectivism, brotherhood and unity, workers rights, and free education, replacing them, firstly, with nationalism and war, and then with a promise of freedom and democracy which instead turned out to be individualism and “wild” capitalism. In dramaturgical terms, the film combines the theoretical concepts of social choreography and social drama, transposing them into film language. Through this directorial gesture, Popivoda explores a genesis from Richard Sennett’s thesis – when ideology becomes a belief, it has the power to activate the people and their social behavior – to the thesis of Renata Salecl – at some point people in Yugoslavia had only a belief in belief: they didn’t believe in communist ideology anymore, but believed others did.

N.B. The film is a part of the two-year-long research project Performance and the Public, carried out by Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić, and Marta Popivoda of the Belgrade theoretical-artistic collective TkH [Walking Theory] at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in Paris. Apart from the film, the research resulted in the book Public Sphere by Performance by Bojana Cvejić and Ana Vujanović.

Directed by Marta Popivoda
Written by Ana Vujanović, Marta Popivoda
Edited by Nataša Damnjanović

Executive Producer Dragana Jovović
Sound design Jakov Munižaba
Colorist Maja Radošević
Producers Marta Popivoda, Alice Chauchat
Co-Producer Ann Carolin Renninger

Produced by
TkH [Walking Theory], Belgrade
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris
Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin
joon film, Berlin

Supported by
Program Archive of Television Belgrade
Périphérie – Centre de création cinématographique
Dart film

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Bojana Cvejić
In conversation with Sandra Teitge at Carleton College (Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236)
Friday, 20 January 2017, 4.30 – 5.30pm

followed by the screening of
“Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body” – a film directed by Marta Popivoda
6pm – 7pm, Cinema, Carleton College

Carleton College
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057

Talk in Chicago at Sector 2337 (with the support of the Goethe Institut Chicago)
Monday, 23 January 2017, 7pm

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Bojana Cvejić (born in Belgrade/Serbia) is a performance theorist and performance maker based in Brussels. She is a co-founding member of TkH editorial collective (http://www.tkh-generator.net) with whom she has realized many projects and publications. Cvejić received her PhD in philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London and MA and BA degrees in musicology and aesthetics from the Faculty of Music, University of the Arts, Belgrade.

Her latest books are Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance (Palgrave, forthcoming), Drumming & Rain: A Choreographer’s Score, co-written with A.T.De Keersmaeker (Mercator, Brussels, 2014), Parallel Slalom: Lexicon of Nonaligned Poetics, co-edited with G. S. Pristaš (TkH/CDU, Belgrade/Zagreb, 2013) and Public Sphere by Performance, co-written with A. Vujanović (b_books, Berlin, 2012). She has been (co-)author, dramaturge or performer in many dance and theater performances since 1996, with a.o. Jan Ritsema, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, and Christine De Smedt.

Cvejić teaches at various dance and performance programs in Europe and has been recently appointed as Professor of Philosophy of Art for the doctoral studies at Faculty for Media and Communication, University Singidunum in Belgrade. Her current research focuses on social choreography, technologies and performances of the self, and time and rhythm in performance poetics and Post-Fordist modes of production.

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Cvejić’s FD13 residency (9–23 January 2017) is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting the residents.
Thank you to Judith Howard for making this conversation possible at Carleton College.
Thank you to our field coordinator Bruno Freeman for taking care of our artists.

Thank you for attending FD13 events and supporting our mission of bringing international artists to the Twin Cities and creating an exchange with Minneapolis/St. Paul-based artists and the local public.

We could not have done it without you and appreciate your enthusiasm.
If you still need and would like to make a tax-deductible donation this year, we certainly would appreciate it.
Donate here (via our website) or here (via Give.MN) or send a check to the address below.

Stay tuned for 2017. We are looking forward to seeing you at one of our FD13 events.

2016 residents and events included:

January 2016: Gela Patashuri, Ei Arakawa, and Sergei Tcherepnin. Metal Nabadi Workshop.
In conjunction with the artists’ exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art
(with support from the TMU/Trust for Mutual Understanding)

February 2016: Sara Ludy.
Live audiovisual performance at Public Functionary

March 2016: Ligia Lewis. Minor Matter for the Theater (work-in-progress)
An excerpt of the research for Minor Matter as a solo with dancer Jonathan Gonzalez at Public Functionary.
Also presented at White Flag Projects in Saint Louis/Missouri, as well as at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, in November 2016, performed by three dancers.
(with support from the Goethe-Institut Chicago)

April 2016: Marit Neeb. A German Requiem for Windows.
In situ durational performance in the Target Atrium of the Minnesota Orchestra simultaneously to the concert A German Requiem.

September/October 2016: Dragana Bulut. 
Pass It On. A performance realized as an auction at Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre.
The Art of Happiness (Work In Progress). A life-coach session at The White Page.

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Upcoming residents include:

January 2017: Bojana Cvejić 
In conversation with Sandra Teitge at Carleton College (Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236)
Friday, 20 January 2017, 4.30 – 5.30pm

Talk in Chicago at Sector 2337 (with the support of the Goethe Institut Chicago)
Monday, 23 January 2017, 7pm

February 2017: Moriah Evans
(in collaboration with Kampnagel Hamburg / in parallel to Common Time at the Walker Art Center)
Moriah Evans at Yeah Maybe
Wednesday & Thursday, 8 & 9 February 2017, 11am – 5pm

March 2017: Barbara Held in conversation with Adam Zahller

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Happy New Year to all of you. Have a marvellous start into 2017!

Sandra, Bruno, Jeremiah & the FD13 crew.

Happy Holidays to all of you.

Thank you for supporting us and our program in 2016.

FD13 residency for the arts continues its international artist program in 2017.
We are looking forward to sharing it with you and hope to see you at one of our events at the various inspiring venues in and around the Twin Cities.

January 2017: Bojana Cvejić 
In conversation with Sandra Teitge at Carleton College (Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236)
Friday, 20 January 2017, 4.30-5.30 pm

Talk in Chicago (with the support of the Goethe Institut Chicago)
Monday, 23 January 2017

February 2017: Moriah Evans
(in collaboration with Kampnagel Hamburg / in parallel to Common Time at the Walker Art Center)

Moriah Evans at Yeah Maybe
Wednesday & Thursday, 8 & 9 February 2017, 11 am – 7pm

March 2017: Barbara Held

Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting our residents, Bruno Freeman for being the man on site, and to all our presenting partners.
Bojana Cvejić’s residency is made possible with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Dragana Bulut

The Art of Happiness (Work In Progress)
Saturday, 1 October 2016, 7pm

The White Page
3400 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407

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Everyone can find happiness and change their life. This is the inexorable mission of life coach Dragana Bulut. The former choreographer and dancer practices the life-changing potential of a new form of art:

“Life is meant to be fun… not just on weekends! What would your life be like if you lived it to the fullest? Take a moment to imagine it! –– You are not sure where to turn and what to do next? Within the little time we have together during this occasion I can provide you with programs to help you clarify what it is that you want, and give you the tools to achieve those desires. Trust me, you have the power within yourself to realize all your potentials. You are the only one who can make yourself happy. I will help you to live your best life and practice The Art of Happiness!”

Life Coach Dragana Bulut 
Personal trainer Zeina Hanna 
Dramaturgy coach Ana Vujanović 
With the support of FD13 residency for the arts 
Co-Production Theaterdiscounter – Monologfestival 2016 / Theater Rampe Stuttgart

Dragana Bulut is an artist of happiness whose mission is to guide, teach, coach, and empower people to use their thoughts and feelings as a guide to leading a life full of harmony, love and happiness. After working as a choreographer and performer Bulut shifted her carrier into the field of life coaching. Her strength in coaching is in the area of creativity, self esteem and creating happiness irrespective of what is happening in her clients’ life, which helps in manifesting one’s true desires.

Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting the FD13 residents.

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Dragana Bulut Pass It On Friday, 16 September 2016, 7pm Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre 810 West Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55408 Work In Progress Saturday, 1 October 2016, 7pm The White Page 3400 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55407   Pass It On is a performance realized as an auction, which deals with the question of authorship, the relation between the material and the immaterial, and the value of an artistic object. The rules of the auction and the registration form will be available before the beginning. By registering you get your bidding number and become a potential owner of the items that will be presented at the live auction.  Bring your cash because it’s all for grabs! Note that by registering you don’t oblige yourself to buy any item; however, you could find art at bargain prices and have fun, too. Work In Progress will present Bulut’s research while in residency at FD13. — Dragana Bulut works with choreography and dance and was based in Belgrade/Serbia before moving to Berlin/Germany, where she graduated from MA studies Solo/Dance/Authorship at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT). Since 2005 Bulut has been developing her own choreographic work, which was presented in various national and international contexts, including: Tanzquartier Vienna/Austria, InTransit festival Berlin, euro-scene Leipzig/Germany, iDANS festival Istanbul/Turkey, Fabrik Potsdam/Germany, Danspace Project New York, NY/USA, eXplore Dance Festival Bucharest/Serbia, Kondenz Festival, Belgrade and Balkan Dance Platform, Ljubljana/Slovenia. Dragana performed amongst others for Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Ivo Dimchev, and Charles Linehan. In 2013-15 Bulut was a performing arts resident at Schloss Solitude; in 2010 she won the Prix Jardin d’Europe and in 2004 and 2008 she received the DanceWeb Europe Scholarship. She is also a member of Station – Service for contemporary dance in Belgrade. Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Happy Summer to all of you.

Thank you for your support and enthusiasm, as always.
We are looking forward to seeing you all in the fall for FD13’s upcoming programming.

Save-the date
September 2016: Dragana Bulut

Apart from two shows in Minneapolis at Bryant Lake Bowl (Friday, 16 September) and at The White Page (Saturday, 1 October 2016), Dragana Bulut will present her work in Chicago in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Chicago. More details will follow later on in the summer.

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Dragana Bulut works with choreography and dance and was based in Belgrade/Serbia before moving to Berlin/Germany, where she graduated from MA studies Solo/Dance/Authorship at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT).
Since 2005 Bulut has been developing her own choreographic work, which was presented in various national and international contexts, including: Tanzquartier Vienna/Austria, InTransit festival Berlin, euro-scene Leipzig/Germany, iDANS festival Istanbul/Turkey, Fabrik Potsdam/Germany, Danspace Project New York, NY/USA, eXplore Dance Festival Bucharest/Serbia, Kondenz Festival, Belgrade and Balkan Dance Platform, Ljubljana/Slovenia.

Dragana performed amongst others for Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Ivo Dimchev, and Charles Linehan.
In 2010 she won the Prix Jardin d’Europe and in 2004 and 2008 she received the DanceWeb Europe Scholarship. She is also a member of Station – Service for contemporary dance in Belgrade.

Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Marit Neeb. A German Requiem for Windows.

(simultaneously to the Minnesota Orchestra concert A German Requiem)

Saturday, April 23rd 2016, 8.30 – 10 p.m.
Target Atrium of the Minnesota Orchestra 

Minnesota Orchestra
1111 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Doors open at 8.30 p.m
Performance starts at 9 p.m.

(no tickets needed for the FD13 performance, access via Orchestra Hall lobby; it is possible to see both the concert and the FD13 performance, tickets for the concert here)

A German Requiem for Windows is an in situ performance in the Target Atrium of the Minnesota Orchestra and a response to the simultaneously staged A German Requiem by Brahms in the main concert hall. The window piece, based on the singing voices, will resonate Brahms’s opus and will be visible from the in- and outside creating a situational relationship with the audience on both sides of the windows. It will develop a temporary space, in which a common musical experience will open up for new multi-faceted encounters.

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Berlin-based artist Marit Neeb is interested in the possibilities of creating resonance between disparate bodies in the broadest sense. Her working method approaches texts of different sources ––voice and speech, movement and choreography– as one and the same fluidly interwoven phenomena of different manifestations.

Since 2011, Neeb has worked on what she calls ‘Resonance Structures’. These are performative installations for dynamic bow structures whose rhythmic choreographies follow compositions based on spoken language.

Recently, Neeb has presented her work at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, L40 Berlin, and haubrok foundation Berlin.

For her residency at FD13 in the Twin Cities Neeb will continue this multi-sensorial investigation whilst extending it onto the human body for the first time.

Thank you to Jessica Rau from the Minnesota Orchestra for the help and support.

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This will be the last performance before FD13’s Summer Break.

We will be back in September 2016 with a series of fantastic international artists. Stay tuned.

FD13 presents: Ligia Lewis. Minor Matter for the Theater (work-in-progress)

Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 7 pm

FD13 at Public Functionary

Public Functionary
1400 12th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Grounded in an ongoing investment in affect and embodiment, Minor Matter takes the “minor” position to be understood racially, sonically, and thematically as it’s translated into aesthetic experience. In the score dancers negotiate themselves in relation to sight and phonic play, while exploring the limitations of signification and the fallacy of neutrality.

At Public Functionary, Ligia Lewis will share an excerpt of the research for Minor Matter as a solo with dancer Jonathan Gonzalez. Minor Matter will be performed by three dancers when it premiers later this year at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.

We are pleased to announce that Minor Matter will additionally be presented at White Flag Projects in Saint Louis/Missouri on Saturday, 19 March, 8pm.

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Ligia Lewis is a choreographer and dancer who inhabits a variety of contexts from the visual arts to the theater. Her work has been presented by American Realness, New York; Impulstanz, Vienna; Flax/Fahrenheit, Los Angeles; Tanz im August, Berlin; NGBK, Berlin; Basel Liste, Basel; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Sophiensaele Theater, Berlin; and Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin. She has performed at Festival d’ Avignon, Avignon; Spectacles Vivantes Centre Pompidou, Paris; Serralves Museum, Portugal; and the National Museum of Singapore, among others. Lewis has upcoming performances with Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Les Subsistances, Lyon; Centre National de la Danse, Paris; and Theatre Garonne, Toulouse. She has collaborated with artists Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Vincent Riebeek, Jeremy Wade, Wojciech Kosma, Wu Tsang, and Les Ballets C de la B. Lewis was awarded the Prix Jardin d’ Europe for her work Sorrow Swag. Minor Matter will be the second work to follow Sorrow Swag in a triptych of works. Ligia Lewis lives and works in Berlin.

Ligia Lewis: Minor Matter for the Theater (work-in-progress) is co-produced with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Supported by Collective Address New York, Tanzhaus Zuerich, and Human Resources Los Angeles. Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to Will Rawls.

Ligia Lewis’ FD13 residency is supported by the Goethe-Institut Chicago.

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Sara Ludy
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 7 pm.
FD13 at Public Functionary

Public Functionary
1400 12th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Ludy’s video installation will be on view at Public Functionary:
Thursday, 3 March, 5–9 pm (drinks & snacks will be available)
Friday, 4 March, 11 am – 5 pm
Saturday, 5 March, 11 am – 5 pm.

Sara Ludy is a nomadic multi-media artist and musician known for her statically encapsulated digital fantasy. Her works include websites, animation, video, sculpture, and audio-visual performance and always investigate the confluence of the physical and virtual.

Recent presentations of Ludy’s work include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; bitforms gallery, New York; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Western Front, Vancouver; Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Carroll Fletcher, London; Espace Verney-Carron, Lyon; and C-Space, Beijing.

Ludy is currently experimenting with the link between live and digital representation within the realm of performance. While in residency at FD13 in the Twin Cities Ludy will continue and develop this investigation further.
Her performance at Public Functionary will take place in the framework of the Guerilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover.