Slaven Tolj (born 1964) articulates his work in several fields of art, including performance, actions, ambient and site-specific installations and objects. He uses real space, and encountered and found objects, incorporating time into his work and using his own body. His art mainly deals with social themes, themes of identity, the past, human vulnerability, loneliness and death. He has exhibited in numerous individual and group exhibitions around the country and abroad. Besides his work in art, he is known to the public as an exhibition curator, co-founder of the Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and Institute of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatian selector of the Venice Biennale of Fine Arts in 2005 and former director of MMSU Rijeka.

Impressum
text: Helena Puhara
graphic design: Rafaela Dražić
thanks: Srdjana Cvijetić, Miranda Veljačić, Dinko Peračić
support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City Government Split
organization: MKC Split

Objava Slaven Tolj: Craquelure, Pavo and I pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

Through our activities, we try to empower the community through various lectures and exhibitions. This conference is a step forward for the association, because for the first time we are bringing foreign lecturers and we are trying to build and expand the community of professionals and experts in the field of design, said the Design hub association.

The lecturers at this year’s Cyan festival are experts from various professions, architects, animators, graphic designers, photographers, typographers, sociologists and others who should collaborate on projects and raise quality together.

The best indicator of the association’s ambitions are the first announced foreign guests, namely Studio Dumbar from the Netherlands. Studio Dumbar is an established design agency with more than twenty years of experience in corporate and brand identity, and they have worked for many clients around the world on projects that require international implementation.

The portfolio includes prestigious projects and clients such as Utah Jazz, Branding The Netherland, NS — Dutch Railways, Club Brugge KV, Van Gogh Museum, Aegon, Shell, TNT Post Group, Czech Telecom, Nike, Dresdner Bank, Danish Post, Allianz, AT&T – Unisource, Apple Computer, Crédit Lyonnais, European Central Bank, Randstad International and others.

www.cyanfestival.com

You can buy tickets on — LINK

Objava CYAN FESTIVAL OF VISUAL CULTURE pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

ARTISTS ABOUT THEIR CREATION TIRA:
Tira is a game about the curiosity of establishing new limits in your own world. It is drawing limits for the pleasure of breaking them.

Tira is sincerity, it is the complicity of the looks.

Tira is transformation, a string becomes everything: the kiss of the grandmother you hated so much when you were little, the caress of someone who is no longer there, the realisation that you are not the woman they expected you to be, but in the end it’s not so bad…

ARTISTS AND THEIR BIOGRAPHY:
Maci got to know the circus at the age of 23. She discovered it, saw it and fell in love with it. She attended the circus school Vertigo in Turin and later she simultaneously studied at Le Lido, a circus school in Toulouse and at the Jean Jaurès University. In 2022/2023 he worked on the creation of the 27th Circ d’Hivern, “fam” of the Ateneu de Nou Barris (Barcelona).

Since she was a child, Carla has been attracted to the arts. She is born in Valladolid, Spain. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Salamanca. Later she enrolled in the circus school Le Lido, motivated by juggling and the body as a tool for emotional language. Carla developed her work in Olot (Spain) with Iris Ziordia, known for her innovative approach to juggling and emotion.

La Barque Acide is a company born in 2018 in Toulouse, with. 9 artists the 25th promotion of Lido. The company made its debut at La Grainerie in 2021 with the show “The end is Nigh”.

Three new projects are currently being created: “Croquette corps cornichon” by Stephanie and Camille Bontout-Mouat, “Pacemaker” by Marcelo Nunes and “Tira” by Carla Carnerero Huertas and Maria Celeste Funghi.

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Artist in residence programme is created to provide different artists support for creation and at the same time creating a local contemporary circus programme through production support and education.

The program is supported by the Foundation Kultura nova, City of Split, Ministry of Culture and Media, Split-Dalmatia county.

Objava La Barque Acide - TIRA (WIP) pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

We have a renowned Slovenian swing dancer and teacher, Nejc Zupan, coming to Split.

Nejc will teach us the basics of Lindy Hop, the most popular swing dance.

The workshop will take place on July 14, 2023, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. But that’s not all! After the workshop, we’ll have a dance party where you can practice and apply your newly acquired skills!

Admission is 20 € per person.

Registration for the workshop is mandatory to ensure the best experience for all participants. Please sign up using the following
LINK.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced dancer, this workshop is open to everyone who loves dancing and wants to explore the world of swing.

NEJC ZUPAN:
Nejc started swing dancing back in 2003 as a result of his contemporary dance experience and a strong love for jazz music. Because of this, he became the main culprit for the popularization of Lindy Hop, Blues and Balboa in Slovenia in the early 2000s. His Swing dance experience is a collection of endless research into different dance forms, many international workshops and his humble willingness to keep learning from anybody willing to teach him. In the past decade, he has taught all over Europe with some of the most talented teachers around and has supported new growing swing scenes in numerous countries. He is known for his elegant and smooth style of dancing as he pays special attention to jazz movement, history and musicality, both quintessential to any Swing dance form.

Objava SWING DANCE WORKSHOP WITH NEJC ZUPAN! pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

And the best part is that the entire program of Phoenix Festival has been created to support the work of Udruga Feniks Split, a local non-profit association for the promotion of mental health. Udruga Feniks runs several mental health support groups in Split as well as supporting vulnerable patients in the psychiatric unit at KBC Firule.

Entry to the festival and participation in the workshops is FREE and open to all visitors. Visitors and workshop participants are invited to DONATE towards the work of Udruga Feniks. The suggested donation is €5–10 per person.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM:

10–11:00
Tibetan yoga and meditation with Xiaoyu Wang
Xiaoyu teaches Tibetan yoga and meditation and Divota yoga garden in Split. She will share with us an introduction to this unique yoga practice that regulates the flow of energy in the body and mind in order to remove negative tendencies and blocks.

11–12:00:
Discover your power in public speaking with Pinija Poljakovic
Pinija is a media and public speaking trainer who has a passion for helping people discover their power in public speaking, find their voice and shape their true message. Join her workshop to learn some practical tools and exercises that will help you master public speaking!

12–13:00
Picnic lunch & Games ‑bring food to share, play some fun outdoor games, and meet some new friends!

13–14:00
Tai chi and qigong with Sonja Jukic
Qi gong is an integral part of Traditional Chinese medicine (medical and health aspect), but also includes martial, artistic and spiritual aspects. Gentle exercises connect our body, breathing, energy and mind into one integrated whole. The regular practise of Qi gong improves and develops our Qi (vital energy), which brings improvements in our posture and the way we move.
Tai chi is a highly developed system of harmonizing the external body with internal energy. Its external movements stretch and strengthen the muscles, tendons and ligaments while the unique spiraling and twining movements massage the body’s internal organs as well as circulate qi energy throughout the body. It combines power, grace and agility, and it is a mean of self-expression for many. One of the features that defines Taijiquan as an internal martial art is the search for stillness within movement, and movement within stillness.

14–15:00
Magic Mindfulness: Welcome to the here and now with Vanessa Ast
Vanessa is a life coach and wellbeing expert from Germany and lives in Trogir. She has been working with and for people for almost 25 years. Vanessa specializes in mindfulness-based personal development with all its methods, as well as energetic and spiritual healing.
At her workshop “Magic Mindfulness: welcome to the here and now.” (in English), participants will learn, among other things, why mindfulness and mindfulness training are intense pillars in consciousness and healing work and are the gamechanger for so many people worldwide for a reason. There is a zoom into the brain, its thought spirals and the explanation why we are rarely in the here and now, what stress this creates, what limiting beliefs as well as self-sabotaging behavior patterns are formed from it and what immense (negative) influence all this has on our lives. Vanessa will share tips and tricks for more mindfulness in everyday life, guide appropriate meditations and invite interaction. So look forward to a lively, joyful and at the same time relaxing workshop.

***We strongly recommend you reserve your place in advance via Eventbrite for these workshops so you don’t miss out, and don’t forget to bring a yoga mat or something to sit on and plenty of water!***

17–18:30
Live jazz featuring Esther Canata

19–20:30
Watch the sunset and enjoy the views with some chill house from DJ Ian Tucker

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In case of inclement weather, rain and/or wind, the program is postponed with a later announced date.

All participants in the workshops and festival enter into these activities at their own risk. The organisers of the festival and the workshops do not accept any responsibility or liability for any damage or injury sustained by any participant during the event.

Please note that food and drink are not available at the venue so come prepared with everything you need for the day!

Objava Phoenix Festival pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

PRICES:
— Aerial Hoop: 20 €
— Aerial Silk: 20 €
— Aerial conditioning: 15 €
— All three workshops: 50 €
Applications via Google form: https://bit.ly/3NJnBER

IMPORTANT NOTE!
The number of participants is limited, for the reservation it is necessary to pay the registration fee in the amount of 10 € to the following information:
Cirkus Kolektiv Ulica slobode 28, Split
IBAN HR7624070001100575526
The rest of the amount (5/10 €) is paid upon arrival at the workshop.

► AERIAL HOOP (90 min): A mixture of intricate fabric moves mixed with high impact moves await in this 90 minute, intermediate workshop! Some sequences will challenge your power, others will rely on your brain ability to remember where everything goes. Some drops, some spins, some splits, we will cover a variety of movements styles and types; there’s something for everyone here! Students should be able to constantly invert in the air, and be comfortable with basic drops and movements.

► AERIAL SILK (90 min): In this 90 minuted, intermediate hoop workshop we will cover a variety of moves and skills. We will start with some fun, quirky poses and flows before working on some harder movements (or progressions to help you get there on your own). Finally, we will finish with some spinning techniques! Students should be able to already mount the hoop and be comfortable with being on the top bar.

► AERIAL CONDITIONING (60 min): In this 60 minute workshop we will cover a variety to strength exercises to increase your aerial power and stamina. These exercises are good for most aerial apparatus, and can be modified for all levels of current strength. Some will work on large muscle groups, while others will be focused on smaller muscle isolations and mobility. Technique is key, and the focus will be on teaching you proper alignment so you can continue to improve for beyond the workshop. Please arrive 10/15 minutes early to warm yourself up before this workshop starts.

ABOUT BRENNAN FIGARI: Originally from California, I spent 10 years traveling the world as a performing artist before settling down in Berlin, Germany where I was a managing director for an aerial studio for three years. Now, I deliver custom creative acrobatic solutions for events and productions, large and small alike, both as an artist and as a choreographer. I teach beginners through professionals, from the studio to the stage in harness work, aerial acrobatics, and more. Some of my previous clients have included Cavalia’s Odyssey, America’s Got Talent, Helene Fischer, Wintergarten Variete, Google, The Ellen Show, Friedrichstadt Palast Berlin, and so many more. Based in Berlin, but in love with the world, I also travel around the world teaching workshops and creating art

Objava Aerial Skills Workshops with Brennan Figari pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

► SCHEDULE ► https://bit.ly/ASeaChange_

► Tuesday – Saturday 16. – 20.5.2023.
GALERIJA MKC / DOM MLADIH
Group exhibition: Marco Barotti, Stijn Demeulenaere, Fara Peluso, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, Robertina Šebjanič
Opening: Tuesday 16/5, 8 pm | Opening hours: 17 – 20/05/2023, 17 – 21 h

► Friday 19.5.2023.
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH
▷ 9 pm pantea, u‑matic, telematique: Fragile Fragments
Audiovizualni performans / Audio-visual performance

► Saturday 20.5.2023.
MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR LIFE SCIENCES (MedILS)
▷ 3 pm – Toni Meštrović: Presentation of the field recording workshop

▷ 4 pm – Fara Peluso: Presentation of the MedILS residency The Function of the Invisible
RAZRED / DOM MLADIH

▷ 7pm – Marko Marković, Josipa Vujević: Mutual Aid Orchestra, the strategies of sound communication between species in extreme living environments / Presentation of the MedILS residency
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH

▷ 9pm – Audio-visual performance: Robertina Šebjanič, Tanja Minarik – Line | +1233m –1233m

The exhibition Heard by the Deep focuses on the topic of the sea, its (human and non-human) communities and the related environmental urgencies – as devastating as they are imperceptible to our human senses.

Featured artists work both with concrete scientific marine data – its usage, production, and visualization – and new, speculative, imaginative scenarios, making our comprehension of the sea environment experiential and emphasizing human pollution of the marine ecosystem. While the experimental approach and multidisciplinary knowledge production underline the common topic of the programme, the majority of the projects presented here share a strong focus on noise pollution or sound in general. Apart from being the main media for communication in the marine biosphere, sound waves travel through seawater much faster and louder than through air. The effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life and the underwater world, therefore, come with even more dangerous and long-lasting consequences. In these artworks and research, the sound is more than a medium for communication and expression; in affirming new ways of coexistence that can redesign the hierarchies within the variety of sea inhabitants, the featured works bring a strong emphasis on sound in re-thinking the materiality of the sea as well as its semantics.

From the microscale of the algae to the macroscale of noise pollution cartography, the underwater world truly is a sonic one.

Heard by the Deep program was created and produced by KONTEJNER within the international project A Sea Change focused on interdisciplinary and intermedia arts, artistic and curatorial research dealing with a wide range of sea-related subjects such as marine ecosystems, the well-being of coastal populations, blue economy, and bioacoustics. The program is co-curated together with project partners MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (GR), NeMe (CY), and Quo Artis Foundation (ES), and realized with the support of local partners MedILS – Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences and Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split.

Objava KONTEJNER presents: Heard by the Deep pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

„Open stage“ is an event for creative performers to present their artistic creation in different performance arts, especially in contemporary circus category, with performance duration up to 10 minutes.

Event will take place 21.05.2023. starting at evening hours in the outside area of Dom mladih (Youth Center), Split.

Application deadline for performers is 10.05.2023.

Application conditions:
— performance should be from the field of performing arts
— performance duration up to 10 minutes
— performers should be older than 16
— it is possible to performer as an individual or as a group

Accommodation and travel expenses equal to the price of the bus ticket are provided for performers coming from outside of Split. The number of provided accommodation is limited.

Applications via Google form — LINK.

Objava OPEN CALL FOR THE 5TH OPEN STAGE pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

Link to application form.

The number of participants is limited, for the reservation it is necessary to pay the registration fee in the amount of 12 euros to the following information:

Cirkus Kolektiv
Ulica slobode 28, Split
IBAN HR7624070001100575526

The rest of the amount (26 euros) is paid upon arrival at the workshop.

“In this workshop I’ll pass on some key elements that I have discovered myself and learnt along the way of my fourteen years of aerial practice that you can implement into your everyday training. This workshop will specialise in delivering technical understanding for vertical aerials, therefore — this workshop is ideal for anyone looking to improve on rope and silk.

I will share combinations and transition as well as key conditioning techniques that can unfold into creative pathways that will aim to achieve a fluid and dynamic skillset through movement efficiency. This workshop is aimed at people with a basic knowledge of vertical apparatus. Ability to invert in mid-air is required.” — Georgina Cassels

Objava Aerial silk and rope workshop: Georgina Cassels pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

◦ MONDAY, 24.10. at 6 p.m. > RAZRED/ HOME OF THE YOUTH > presentation of the FLOC project : OSTRALE biennale O21 in Dresden and its iterations in Budapest and Kaunas with the theme “curating in pandemic/ isolation”. We will also present a program of artistic residencies in Budapest and announce an exchange with Art Quarter Budapest in 2023.

◦ WEDNESDAY, 26.10. at 7 p.m. > LECTURE AND CONVERSATION AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, SPLIT > Marija Dremaite (Vilnius): MODERNISM FOR THE FUTURE (see more below for details)

◦ THURSDAY, 27.10. at 11 a.m. — organized trip to Krvavica, visit to the former Children’s health resort built in 1964, designed by the architect Rikard Marasović. From today we accept applications for the tour exclusively by email > slobodne.veze@gmail.com
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Slobodne veze/ Loose Associations and their associates have been dealing with issues of critical reevaluation and preservation of the modernist architectural heritage of the second half of the 20th century through the activities of the MOTEL TROGIR project. The project consists of many activities and has developed a specific methodology which can be described as a combination of civic activism and scientific, publishing and educational work, including curating and producing contemporary art projects.

At the beginning of 2020, Slobodne veze were invited to (co)curate the international contemporary art biennial in Dresden OSTRALE O21: BREATHTURN. A large international exhibition took place in one of the neglected modernist buildings in the center of Dresden — the former workers’ canteen of the ROBOTRON factory, an important city point from the GDR period. The exhibition brought together over 130 artists from all over the world, and the biennale then had iterations in the Budapest Art Quarter (aqb) and in Kaunas (Kaunas 2022 European Capital of Culture ). Modernist architecture and reflections about its future (and creative reuse) is the red line that connects Dresden, Budapest, Kaunas and Split.

The meeting of the partners of the FLOWING CONNECTIONS project in Split is conceived as a sort of recapitulation of three years of cooperation, but also as a public platform for discussing common topics. In addition to the above-mentioned events, which are open to the public, an artistic residency of the KOLXOZ Colletive (Prague, Chisinau, Tiraspol) is organized, as well as a series of internal meetings, tours and networking with actors of the local cultural scene. Kaunas 2022, this year’s European Capital of Culture, is one of the project partners that, with its focus on the interwar modernism of the city, through the program line MODERNISM FOR THE FUTURE, opens up a number of interesting topics. With a number of experts, an interdisciplinary project has been developed to nominate modernist districts of Kaunas for UNESCO’s list of world cultural heritage. The lecture of Professor Marija Dremaita from the University of Vilnius will present the “phenomenon of the city of Kaunas” and its influence on the modernism of the middle and second half of the 20th century in Lithuania, touching on the “controversial” Soviet modernist legacy. The lecture is at the same time a link to the penultimate stop of the FLOC project and a contribution to bringing together geographically distant areas with similar preoccupations regarding the protection of modernist architectural and other cultural heritage.

Organization: Slobodne veze/ Loose Associations
With their associates
www.slobodneveze.wordpress.com

FLOWING CONNECTIONS (FLOC) is a three-year international collaborative project supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. The project is co-financed by the Kultura nova Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Split.

Objava FLOWING CONNECTIONS (FLOC) IN SPLIT ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM- SCREENINGS- LECTURES- TOURS pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.