Curated event series
Lectures:
April 3rd (Rok Kranjc) – ABOUT THE EVENT
May 15th (Alicja Rogalska)
May 29th (FoAM – Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney & Kate Rich)
Lectures are free of charge. Reservation required at rezervacije@glej.si
Performances: May 20 – June 3
Where? Where, where. At Glej, of course!
About Futurizmi
"I think we need the freedom to imagine new ways of thinking about the world, new stories, new languages, new relationships."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What would it take to truly have the power to shape our own future? How can we not only imagine but actively realize alternative social, economic, and political realities in the intensified conditions of late capitalism? Can art and speculation serve as tools for intervening in the crisis of political imagination?
Through the Futurizmi series, we are building a feminist platform for creating our own imaginaries of the future.
The series brings together artists, researchers, and practitioners who explore possible realities through performance and play. Between April and May, Rok Kranjc, Alicja Rogalska, and the FoAM collective – Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney, and Kate Rich – will present a series of lectures addressing guerrilla economic futurisms, post-fossil rituals, and business as a site of experimentation.
In the performative part of the program in June, Olja Grubić, Tatiana Kocmur, and Una Bauer will explore cracks into alternative worlds, especially in the context of feminist and queer struggles.
Project Credits
Curator of the discursive programme: Rok Kranjc
Curators of the performative programme: Alja Lobnik, Jasmina Založnik
Lecturers: Rok Kranjc, Alicja Rogalska, FoAM – Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney & Kate Rich
Artists: Una Bauer, Olja Grubić, Tatiana Kocmur
Producer: Nastja Kotnik
Public Relations: Urška Comino (Maska Ljubljana), Tina Malenšek, Paulina Pia Rogač (Gledališče Glej)
Technical Manager: Grega Mohorčič
Graphic Design: Asiana Jurca Avci
Production: Maska
Co-producer (venue): Gledališče Glej
Financial Support: City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
About the performers
Tatiana Kocmur (Buenos Aires, 1992) is a visual artist and contemporary art producer, representative of the association Cirkulacija 2 and co-initiator of TRANSLACIJA/TRASLACIÓN, a platform for the production, exhibition and research of performance art. Her work is based on the phenomenon of “living images of hybrids”, which she uses to transcend established social norms. The androgynous figure of her flesh challenges conventional notions of the body and identity. Her suggestive animal poses captivate the gaze, giving birth to new hybrid creatures, while still lifes of the erotic and sensual blur the boundaries between spectacle and ritual. Her artistic practice is based on collaborations with artists from different backgrounds. Emerging from a synergy of diverse artistic approaches, her work focuses on the body as an inspiration and a powerful mediator of socio-political messages. She has presented her work in numerous national and international contexts, including exhibitions and alternative spaces in Skopje, Milan, Bologna, Berlin and Timișoara. In 2024 and 2021, she received a working grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2020, she completed her postgraduate studies in painting with the Master's thesis “Physical Installation – Between Performance and Object”.
Olja Grubić (1990, Pula) graduated in Space Conceptualisation from the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana in 2014. She has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both at home and abroad. She was a recipient of a Cultural Euro grant from Kino Šiška. Her work is included in the Moderna Galerija Ljubljana’s Arteast 2000+ collection. Between 2016 and 2021, she was the leader of the group Cabaret Tiffany. In 2020 she became a member of the artistic council of Via Negativa. In her artistic practice, she addresses themes that reflect the primordiality of life, combining the basic functions, needs, and instincts of life into visual images and seemingly simple physical actions that, in their persistence in time, shape a wide range of feelings and the social condition of society. Her practice encompasses performance, cabaret, installation, drawing, set and costume design. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
Una Bauer is a performance, dance, and theatre scholar with a particular interest in emotions, affects and the social dimensions of art. She is an assistant professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she teaches in the dramaturgy department. In addition to her academic work, she is a licensed group therapist. Her publications include Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (“Come Closer: On Theatre and other Joys”; 2015) and BADco.: Vježbanje nemogućeg (“BADco.: Practicing the Impossible”; 2021). She was a collaborators in the project Narrating Fear and is currently involved in the project Normanel – Normality and Discomfort, both led by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb.
About the curators of the performative programme
Jasmina Založnik is a freelance dramaturge, dance publicist and producer. She works locally and internationally as a writer, editor, dramaturge, curator, researcher, archivist, and artistic collaborator. She is a co-manager of the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and co-founder and co- curator of the CoFestival International Festival of Contemporary Dance. She holds an MA in Philosophy (Intercultural Studies – Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures at the University of Nova Gorica) and a PhD in Visual Culture (University of Aberdeen, 2020). In 2015, she received the Ksenija Hribar Award for dance in the category Criticism/Dramaturgy/Theory and in 2023 the Meta Vidmar Award.
Alja Lobnik is a doctoral student at the University of Ljubljana. In recent years, she has established herself as a publicist and critic in the field of performing arts. She has worked for Radio Študent, Kriterij, Amfiteater, and others. She received a cultural scholarship for her coverage of international productions at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. In 2019, she was a member of the jury for the Ksenija Hribar Awards at the Gibanica festival. She served as president of the Slovenian Association of Theatre Critics and Theatrologists, is a board member of City of Women, and a member of the advisory group for performing and time-based arts at Cukrarna. As a dramaturge or co-author, she has collaborated on several performative projects. She was co-editor of Maska magazine and the online platform Neodvisni – Territory of Contemporary Performing Arts. Since 2021, she has held the position of director and artistic director of the Maska Institute.
About the lecturers
Rok Kranjc: How to Take Over Reality with Collective Imagination
Rok Kranjc is a researcher in the fields of political ecology, alternative economies and futures studies. He is also the founder of Futurescraft, a research and development studio that employs futuring, games, and performative methods as tools for collectively imagining, reflecting on, and prefiguring transition pathways aligned with post-capitalist perspectives. Some of his projects include the modular board game and game show Game-Changers: The Game and performance series Future 14B. Rok frequently collaborates with organizations such as Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Maska Institute, Krater Collective, Crypto Commons Association, P2P Foundation and Participatory Futures Global Swarm. Rok has (co-)translated several books into his native Slovenian, including Arturo Escobar’s Designs for the Pluriverse, Maarten Hajer’s The Politics of Environmental Discourse and Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons.
Alicja Rogalska: Prehearsing Futures: Collaborative Art and Post-Capitalist Speculation
Alicja Rogalska is a Polish-British interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin and London who works internationally. Her practice is research-led and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday; she works mostly in specific contexts, creating situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with others to collectively search for emancipatory ideas for the future. She recently presented her work at n.b.k. (Berlin, 2024), Biennale Matter of Art (Prague, 2024), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2024), Biennial Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023–24), New Contemporaries (London & Blackpool, 2023–24), Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, 2023), Urbane Künste Ruhr (Essen, 2023), Scherben/Berlin Art Prize (2022, main prize), Manifesta 14 Prishtina (Pristina, 2022), Temporary Gallery (Cologne, 2021–22), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, 2020–21) and OFF Biennale (Budapest, 2020–21). Rogalska is currently artistinresidence at the Villa Kamogawa / Goethe Institute in Kyoto and a PhD researcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths College. She was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme in 2020–21, and artistin-residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2023), the Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019–22), the City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019) and the Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019), among others.
Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney & Kate Rich (FoAM): IBEX: How to Survive Well Together
FoAM is a transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday life. Founded in Brussels in 2000, FoAM navigates between (post-capitalist) open-resource ethics and mainstream economic realities by experimenting with distributed forms of financing, administration and shared infrastructure. FoAM members Kate Rich, Maja Kuzmanović and Nik Gaffney are currently establishing the Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX), a lab for exploring new and wild forms of business and enterprise that could fit into other possible worlds.
Maja Kuzmanović (HR/BE/NL) and Nik Gaffney (AU/BE/HR) are the co-founders of FoAM. Maja is FoAM's principal invigorator, experience designer and facilitator. Nik is a tangential generalist, designer, programmer and sous-chef. Guided by FoAM’s motto “grow your own worlds”, they work with futurecrafting as a way to re-enchant the present and create places for learning, conviviality and collaboration where all species are welcome. As FoAM's stewards and administrators, they support and investigate ways to navigate uncertainty, cultivate hospitality, reimagine technologies and weather transience.
Kate Rich (AU/UK/IT) is a trade artist and feral economist who has been trading in and outside formal institutions for over 30 years. She worked for 20 years as bar manager, director, licensee, hire manager, banker and usher at the Cube Microplex, a volunteer-run cinema, music and art cooperative in Bristol UK. In 2003 she founded Feral Trade, a grocery import-export business and long-range economic experiment that uses the spare carrying capacity of existing movements to transport coffee, olive oil and other essential goods. In 2019 she co-organised RADMIN, Britain's first festival of Administration, and in 2020 she founded the Feral MBA, a radically reimagined training course in business for artists and others.
