CRITICAL PRACTICE-CRITICAL TIME



Join the Critical Practice (Made in YU) 3//team of artists-theorists, practitioners and writers// which invites the audience to spend some "Critical Time" together. In an informal, drinking/cookies playful setting, we will be trying out different post-performance formats such as meaning/projection/roleplaying games for the audience and the artists. If you don’t drink or consume sugar, you can engage with us on the festival's blog where we will post reflections and conversation podcasts with the the cultural workers from the local scene.



Check out podcasts here:

1.with Jovana Rakić

2. with Levi Gonzales and Mariana Valencia

3. with Dušan Murić

4. with Igor Koruga









Anonimus

Dialoguing an Archive
-        Hey!
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-        Hi!
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-        How are you?
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-        I wish I'd slept more, but I'm fine. How about you?
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-        I'm still hungover from yesterday.
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-        Did you stay late?
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-        It was past 5 when we got home.
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-        Wow, and you said you would just have one drink and head home.
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-        Yeah, well, that's what I do. Change my mind a lot, I mean.
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-        Will you be changing your mind when we do the writing too?
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-        Probably. But actually, I had an idea I wanted to share with you.    
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-        Tell me.
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-        Remember how yesterday, when they were presenting Movement Research, they said how they organise those anonymous interviews between artists and then reveal their identities in the next issue?
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-        I was late so no, I don't remember.
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-        Nevermind, so that's what they do and I think we can borrow their concept for our text.
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-        But are we artists?
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-        Why is that relevant?
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-        Because you said they do these interviews with artists.
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-        We're dramaturges.
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-        Is that a yes or a no?
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-         (Silence).
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-        Okay, so let me see if I got it – you want us to do an anonymous dialogue and publish it on the festival blog?
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-        Yes, I think it's okay to do adopt a format that somehow reflects and speaks to the works in progress which we saw yesterday.
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-        Do we always have to be meta?
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-        (Silence).
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-        Anyways, I'm in.
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-        Great. Let's do this.
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-        And when do we reveal our identities?
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-        Maybe never.
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-        Why?
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-        I don't know, we're shy. Anonymity is comfortable. And a way of sidestepping responsibility, perhaps.
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-        Doesn't have to be.
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-        Of course, it can and it doesn't have to be.
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-        What if we actually started?
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-        What if, instead of writing this text, we would be looking at the Moon through a telescope?
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-        What if we went for a trip to Detroit?
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-        What if we sang a sad karaoke altogether?
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-        What if we danced to house music for our Polish cousin Monika?
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-        What if we said thank you to the wall?
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-        What if we danced a sacred dance for seven days, in order to communicate with the dead?
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-        What if you could choose the person who will contact you when you die?
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-        What if we had a grandmother in Guatemala?
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-        What if I didn’t remember exactly what Levi asked me about touching my eyelashes with his own?
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-        What if these minutes were years, in vampire time?
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-        What if everything in the world came with rice?
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-        What if we messed up the space now?
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-        What if I was somewhere else in 1996?
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-        Ok, but try to remember, where exactly you were in 1996? Where exactly?
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-        What if I told you I was in a big field?
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-        What if we messed up the text now?
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-        Isn’t it already messed up?
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-        But we're at the end of it.
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-        Already?
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-        Yes.
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-        And we're still anonymous. 
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-        Yes.
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-        And we should stay so.
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