Kriterij.si, 28. junij 2018 ― Eksperiment skupnega Habitat Urednik Thu, 06/28/2018 - 18:12 Eksperiment skupnega Habitat, ki ga je v Stari mestni elektrarni sredi junija zasnoval Jurij Konjar s svojimi sodelavkami in sodelavci, ki so vanj vstopali v času slabega tedna Habitatovega obstoja, je v svojem bistvu preprosta forma – coworking za sodobni ples, pri čemer je oblika prakse prosta in (vsaj načeloma) lahko vase vsrka tudi ostale produkcijske izraze. Habitat je izraz konkretnih potreb na polju sodobnega plesa. Je hkrati okvir, institucija, in orodje ustvarjalnega procesa. Je prostor v nenehnem nastajanju, prednastavljen, a hkrati vsakič znova vzpostavljen na drugačen način, vedno izhajajoč iz potreb skupnosti, ki ga oblikuje in uporablja. Habitat ima dimenzijo odprtosti in je v svoji začasnosti osredotočen na trajanje. Je eksperiment z oblikami soustvarjanja, ki vsakemu posamezniku in posameznici dovoljuje razvoj lastnega izraza, a hkrati spodbuja kreiranje vsakokratne skupnostne dinamike. In čeprav gre za že nekaj desetletij poznano obliko osredotočanja na ustvarjalni proces namesto na končno produkcijo, je Habitat nekaj, kar je sodobni ples pri nas že dolgo čakal.  Za vse tiste, ki smo vanj vstopili zgolj občasno, pa še to s praksami, ki med njegovimi ustvarjalci in ustvarjalkami niso bile prevladujoče, je Habitat odprl vrsto vprašanj. V prvi vrsti seveda, kako pisati o skupnostnem projektu, ki temelji na vključevanju, če vanj vstopaš zgolj občasno, Podobno, kot se znotraj akademskega polja vse več raziskovalk in raziskovalcev odloča za zavračanje objektivnega pogleda kot nečesa, kar je mogoče na realen teren usmerjati iz slonokoščenega stolpa, in se raje prepušča militantnemu raziskovanju, kjer je sovplivanje na potek dogodkov bistvenega pomena, se pri vsakem skupnostno naravnanem projektu seveda zastavlja vprašanje, kako ga obravnavati na način, da vanj ne projiciraš idej, ki jih v resnici nima, hkrati pa ti vseeno uspe zavzeti pozicijo, ki ti mogoča obravnavanje skupnostnega delo

Kriterij.si, 27. junij 2018 ― HABITAT, mon amour Habitat Urednik Wed, 06/27/2018 - 10:47 Zapis Dragane Alfirević je nastal v angleščini, slovenski prevod bo kmalu na voljo.   HABITAT, mon amour 1. The desire to dive into sharing of practices has started, at least for me, exactly one year and a half before it really happened: in February 2017, I have sent out an email to a group of around 10 colleagues from the Slovene independent dance scene. Then, as well as much earlier, I have witnessed that many artists in the field of choreography are developing their own ways of working and their paths, but that these ways and paths are, due to the cultural policies and general production conditions, often left to be almost in the realm of their private sphere, the matter of their free time or manageability of paid and non-paid, visible and invisible, invalid and invaluable work. Also, instead of making the research, laboratory approach our inspiration and the basis for other segments of our work, the space for research was shrinking and becoming a burden for extra organization that was always needed or simply inexistent and melted into the everyday patterns. I thought I should approach my colleagues[1] and state that it is up to us to frame these questions as we see fit and as we think they should be put into practice, made visible and present. It was clear that because we ourselves lack resources to take care of this part of our work, it would always be forgotten, unsupported and invisible by the colleagues, our surrounding and by the politics. The response was unexpectedly strong; showing us that we all need to take care of this part of our work and that there is a lot to discover and research in this direction. This could be called artist’s practice. My need was to organize a week or a ten-day long process, which would be self-curated, where we would have first of all enough time, maybe also some “unproductive” time, and do what we are doing when we are alone, but next to each other, w