May Event Cycle of City of Women
At the end of May, The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture – City of Women, will connect artistic productions created on the basis of community art reflections and practices, which aim to change the traditional relationship between the artwork, the artist, and the audience. While creating, the artists encountered many questions arising from such collaboration: Who leads the process? What is decentralized management, what is community art, and what is co-creation? How are decisions made in collective processes, and who takes responsibility if something goes wrong? Who is paid for their work and why? Who makes decisions, and who represents the work when the community practice is completed? Who has the opportunity to travel if the work or performance is touring, and many other topical questions that simultaneously decelerate and enrich community processes.
22. 5. at 8:00 p.m.: performance Performing Gender - Dancing in Your Shoes, created as part of the three-year European development project Performing Gender.
https://www.mojekarte.si/.../upriz.../vstopnice-1167696.html
23. 5.: Decoding Resilience exhibition opening, which was created as part of the European BePart project. The exhibition is the final destination of a performative journey devised by Samar Zughool, Behnaz Aliesfahanipour, Safa Saad and Sammar Al Kerawe.
Free entry.
24. 5. at 5:00 p.m.: the second part of the Community Building LAB, which will begin at 5:00 p.m., will be open to the general public. Societies and collectives that see the vision of collaboration and artistic co-creation in building communities will present themselves. Slovenian and foreign organizations will share their knowledge and experiences about their working processes based on the principles of connecting, supporting, and co-creating local communities. They will exchange their ways of surpassing differences between professional and non-professional artists, educating audiences, and using art to highlight social inequalities.
Free entry.
In addition to Decoding Resilience, on 24th of May, it will also be possible to visit the Erased Gazes exhibition, which was also created as part of the BePart project. The memorial canvas was created during the workshops called Politics of Touch led by Croatian visual artist selma banich in 2022.
Free entry.
26. 5. at 7:00 p.m.: the final performance Everything is Fine, created in collaboration with the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and mentored by Nataša Živković and Sara Šabec, will take place. In 2021, the year of lockdowns, the high school students selected at the audition studied school as an institution.
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All productions participating in the May Cycle Events were created at the City of Women Association as part of two European projects: BePart and Performing Gender - DIY. May Cycle of Events is supported by the Ministry of Public Administration and the City Municipality of Ljubljana.
