Red Dawns and Ljudmila present

Workshop

Željko Blaće (CRO): QueerSport

Workshop on QueerSport theme is dealing with the tensions of queer expression in the highly normative system of sport. With the support of Željko Blaće, participants of the workshop will collectively or individually, plan and produce/perform objects or actions of queering. The workshop will question the self-evident gender and binary norms. Transforming the sport towards sensibility and needs of LGBTIQ community, could take form through adapting materiality of sport (infrastructure, equipment, gear, clothes, promotion objects, scoring systems…) or its systemic structures (rules, regulations, organization, values…). The project and practice will evolve in diversity of content and forms, but based on the emancipatory experiences of the wither community. The interaction and exchange among participants is the key!

Željko Blaće, worked in digital arts and media culture in Zagreb at Multimedia Institute (since 1999, co-founder), as programer in net.culture club MaMa and int. projects for Multimedia Institute. Participated as speaker/presenter/jury member at international media art events and exhibitions, exhibited as visual/media artist, organized large scale new media conferences, seminars and workshops. Curated and produced exhibitions: “GenArt” (May 2002), “Silent*Observers – streaming media and observation practices” Rijeka (September 2005) and San Diego (June2006), “afterMETAphores” (Sept 2007 – ), “CreativeClusters” (April 2008), “db:ae – database aesthetics” (Sept2008). Co-curated exhibition with Andreas Broeckmann “runtimeART”. Was a researcher at at Jan van Eyck Academie on the topic of perception+mediation of public space and image relations. As of 2006 researching phenomena of clustered creativity and issues of queering/de-normalization of sport as doctoral student at PhD Arts program as of 2010 http://zeljko.blace.name/

No application fee, the workshop will be in English/Croatian.  Please, apply at: delavnica@ljudmila.org.

Co-production: Ljudmila, Rimska 8, Ljubljana

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