Hrvatski
Italiano
FrançaisDate: November 19, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: POGON MISLAVOVA, Ulica kneza Mislava 18, Zagreb
Facilitators: Dr. Sandra Uskoković and Viktorija Pilon
Organizer: Association Shadow Casters, with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
As part of the project “Performance is Archive, Archive is Performance: Critical Approaches and Innovative Methods for Preserving Performing Arts”, the workshop explores ways of recording, archiving, and reinterpreting performing arts through practical, reflective, and interdisciplinary approaches.
The goal of the workshop is to gather personal memories, sensory impressions, and reflections from workshop participants, i.e., audience members, in order to develop new, participatory models for preserving performance practices. Since systematic archiving and preservation of performing arts has not yet been undertaken in Croatia, Shadow Casters introduce a completely new, experimental approach that combines practice, theory, and audience engagement.
Guest Lecturer: Zrinka Džoić (Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar) will give a workshop lecture titled “The Archive as a Living Body”, presenting documentation and archiving practices in independent performing arts in Croatia. Participants will reflect on their own “work archive” in small groups through a guided exercise — considering what it would contain, how it would look, its boundaries, and whether it exists at all.
The workshop involves students from the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) and lecturers who are experts in performing arts.
Registration and Information:
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By email: viktorija@bacaci-sjenki.hr
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Via the form: https://forms.gle/daDEiMmCzgozpof97
The project “Performance is Archive, Archive is Performance: Innovative Methods for Preserving Performing Arts” is part of a long-term research initiative by Shadow Casters — an international artistic platform combining film, theatre, urban projects, video art, activism, and pedagogical work into an integrated form of intermedial practice.
About Shadow Casters: Shadow Casters (Zagreb, Republic of Croatia) is a multi-award-winning and internationally acclaimed artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creative practice, and intermedial art research. It successfully integrates international cooperation, film production, theatre performances, urban intermedial projects, activism, pedagogical work, video art, and curatorial practice into a cohesive artistic practice.
Project Support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society
Support for Shadow Casters: National Foundation for Civil Society Development, Kultura Nova Foundation, Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society
