3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
PEOPLE LIVING ON THE FRINGES OF SOCIETY AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS
The Queue for a Better Today (Red za bolje sutra)
where: Cvjetni trg
Simbolic festival opening.
A queue without a beginning or an end. An anti-queue of solidarity and creative flourish between artists, enthusiasts, layabouts, activists, anarchists, eternal students, antichrists, UDBA mercenaries, estranged bastard children of JNA generals, bums, wantons against nature and their partners.
Everybody who has at least once felt like this or has been warned about such deviant behaviour by their dear friends, benevolent neighbours, local dignitaries, civil cervants and other well known citizens is invited to wait with us!
Bring blankets, sleeping bags, bugs, thermos flasks, coffee, precussion instruments, props and everything else that is needed for the production of art, kindness and respectability...
Send your works and ideas to fakifest@gmail.com
Long live civil peace!
Long live creative un-order!
5:00 pm
LICEM PREMA DOLJE
"Performance From Off“ and „Mass Face Down“
Face down is an artistic project of more groups and it has been formed around the performing and photographic arts.
The group is active in Zagreb and the various performances have been done all over the world in the last few years.
5:30 pm
SALON EMMER, Wienna
Guerilla Gardening
where: Meeting point at Varšavska street (near Tin Ujević monument)
Since March 2008 Salon Emmer has been regularly performing in public and private places.
Salon Emmer symbolizes an autonomous and individual attitude to life through the arts. Salon Emmer is trying to work independently from the ruling culture. Its artwork, supposed to be non representative, leaves space for small and big subjects of mankind.
It deals with inner and outer spaces, with virtual and real life.
Salon Emmer – feeling at home, wherever you are.
Guerilla Gardening is a walk through the city of Zagreb.
The general idea is to take over the city through planting. Guerilla gardening enables the urban citizen to invade public space and it´s effective surrounding in order to create spaces of freedom.
Following performative actions are planned:
- every participant will receive a small toolbox for guerilla gardening actions:
- we will walk to places, where we can take humus and plants and find areas which are not proposed for gardening (sidewalks, shoppingstreets,....) where we replant the liberated crops.
- within cracks of the asphalt surface we will spread seeds and plants and also spray moss to provide humus for coincidental insemination.
- with pieces of course grass we will cover several sidewalks, streets and monuments.
- the end of the walk will be a performance at a pedestrian refuge island where the participants can experience the feeling of growing.
- two guests will be invited to join the citywalk:
*a gardener, who will give detailed informations about plants and gardening.
*a graffiti artist, who will paint a mossgraffity.
8:00 pm
ROBERT FRANCISZTY, Zagreb (Video: Dražen Jeren)
BULLshit
where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Robert Franczisty is a poet, painter, photographer and performer. In his animalistic works, performances and actions, he thematizes animal rights, enviromental protection, urban ecology, ecofeminism and ecoanarchy. He is an active member of the non-profit non-governmental association Friends of Animals (Croatia).
Performance BULLshit, strives for the basic right of all living beings – RIGHT TO LIVE, and is made up of four instalations.
1.psychophysical child molestation (family, church and state violence towards children)
2.cinicism of democracy and neoliberal capitalism with the ecological activism of Vandana Shiva as its counterpoint.
3.experimenting on animals done by corporate lobbies.
4.global warming.
Notice: Not suitable for children because of footage of experiments on animals
9:00 pm
Kesten Impro Cabaret Kolektiv
where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Kesten Impro Cabaret Kolektiv – is an artistic and experimental group that bases its work on expresion through elements of musical theatre, circus art, video art, movement and shadows. Every performance makes a special and unpredictable whole. So naming of the performance is always unanimous with its creation.
Lack of partners for contact juggling, metamorphoses of the soul, man with a bird in his head, soup kitchen...
Is everyday life really inevitable?
...peace...quiet...slowly...more...quieter...
Somebody is dreaming...“Cirkus experimentalis“...
22:30
IGOR BEZINOVIĆ
Nepovratno / Non-Recyclable
where: AKC Medika
duration: 17 min
PREMIERE of the FILM
Director and scriptwriter: Igor Bezinović
Producer: Oliver Sertić
Executive producers: Saša Balent and Tin Žanić
Cameramen: Đuro Gavran i Jadranko Marjanović
Editor: Martin Semenčić
Music: Hrvoje Krešić, Hrvoje Radnić, Damir Kvesić – Kramasonik studio
Sound director: Ivan Mihoci
Year: 2009
Synopsis:
Three individuals coming from different backgrounds collect recyclable bottles on the streets of Zagreb. Each of them has their own reasons for collecting them alongside their own way of looking at it. While they are collecting recyclable bottles, they talk about their everyday life, as well as their views on friendship, love, hopes, wishes and prospects. It is a unique opportunity to meet people we could not have met but for this film and to listen to the stories of people who have been deprived of their rights and who have much to share.
CHARACTERS
In the process of looking for speakers on the streets of Zagreb, more than fifty bottle-collectors have been contacted. Yet, only three of them eventually agreed to be on camera and tell their life stories.
Krunoslav Matijašević, holding BSc in chemistry, was prematurely forced into retirement due to his alleged psychological instability. Today, he lives in a small apartment with no electricity. He collects recyclable bottles so as to be able to afford a 'state-of-the-art computer'. When he is not collecting, Kruno attends public cultural events free of charge (e.g. transcendental meditation lectures, film shows, street concerts, courses, etc.).
Bakir Bešić came to Zagreb from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of the 50s. Before retirement he worked as a manual worker. He sells old clothes on the Gagarinov put (Gagarinov Road) and in the afternoons he collects recyclable bottles. In the evenings, he goes to Borongaj on a regular basis to help his friend with minor manual tasks, and in return he gets ćevapčići (grilled minced meat dumplings) for free. Bakir claims that he has slept with more than a thousand women, and his life goal is to find a new wife in the wake of three unsuccessful marriages.
Lavoslav Bauman is a student of history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. After he quit his job as an office worker in a savings bank, he has begun collecting recyclable bottles 'for fun and a small income'. He quit his job so as to be able to dedicate himself more to his studies, especially the problems of economic history. Few Lavoslav's age-mates collect recyclable bottles, which he considers socially responsible and useful behaviour which should be practiced by everybody.
«What do I think about when I collect recyclable bottles? It depends on the impressions of the day, what I perhaps dreamt of or what is currently talked about, what I should do, a research paper I have to hand in or some girl or I think about politics in general, what I heard on the news, music, I keep count of the bottles collected, where I could go and find some more... And so on.» Lavoslav
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Igor Bezinović was born in 1983 in Rijeka. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences where he obtained BA in philosophy and sociology and where he is a comparative literature undergraduate. He met Đuro Gavran, the cameraman, at a video activism workshop in the organization of «Fade In» in June 2006, when the idea for this film was born. After the workshop he enroled in the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he met Martin Senečić, the editor. Jadranko Marjanović joined the project as a cameraman, as well. Beside the documentary «Non-Recyclable» (Restart production, 2009), Igor and Đuro have made another documentary titled «Above the Average» (Dramatic Arts Academy produciton, 2008).
Where: meeting point at AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
9 00 pm
The ANDRAS URBAN COMPANY, Subotica
Brecht - The Hardcore Machine
Where: Teatar na Tresnjevci – CKT, Tresnjevaćki park
The Andras Urban Company (AUC) of the Kosztolanyi Dezso Theatre (KDT) is currently the most successful creative workshop in Vojvodina, Serbia. AUC is an informally organised creative team producing the independent performances of director Andras Urban. www.kosztolanyi.org
Based on Bertolt Brecht's Buckow Elegies. A retro political revue. Theatre of the physique. Class struggle is not dead! This performance is not a play. Post dramatic theatre is a result of literary drama. Physical action evokes dramatical and historical contents. Labour. Starvation. Sex. Power. Fun.
Notice: The show is suitable for persons above 16 Duration of the show: 60mins (no break)
11 00 pm
KABARE 6, Gevgelija
Numbers (Brojevi)
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Kabare 6 started as a friendly amateur company of poets, musicians, artists, and art enthusiasts in 2001. They got tired of institutional and administrative labyrinths, and rather spontaneously dedicated their ideas to the open space of their own.
Maintaining their creative continuity, the troupe dedicates NUMBERS in remembrance to their late friend, and one of the founders, Boško Bozadžievski.
2 love 4 authority,
And crisis on the seventh galaxy…
An ounce of ketchup and mayonnaise,
and a pink masquerade of black shades,
oh, you 3king eternity…
An absurd? People in NUMBERS?
An absurd act in which the characters are numbers who repeat themselves by the number each of them represents, playing the “crisis of humanity”.
12 00 pm
Our little Afro Band
Concert
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Our little Afro Bend is primarily a group of friends oriented on the animation and manifestation of the power of the rhythms of the West African cultural circle. The band was created after the three members retuned from the West African county of Guinea, where they had spent a month studying under the greatest living master of the djembe drum Mamady Keite. The final goal of our and your little afro band is to dance accompanied with the egzotic sounds of the African drums and experiencing their magic.
Group is me, Barabba, 6 years traveling and performing in all the south Europe, from Lisboa to Beograd.
This is a clown street performance based on different cirkus arts like pantomima, juggling and acrobatic...but all in the best funny way, with, of course, a lot of audience interaction. And that small part of fire that is closing the performance. www.clownbarabba.it
10 00 pm
KnAM Theatre, Russia
Colectivo Kabeza de Zebra, Chile
(Video projection)
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
KnAM Theatre, Russia
In solidarity with our Russian friends, KnAM Teatre from Komsomols on Amur, we will show the video of their performance „Kill Shakespeare“ . They produced „Kill Shakespeare“ before closing KnAM Theatre due to lack of support by the municipal government.
"Kill Shakespeare - sounds sufficiently paradoxical.
Today the KnAM Theatre is living through serious financial difficulties; it is on the verge of "suicide". In a world where everything is measured in money, few worry about the disappearance of something intangible and non-material. Who needs this Shakespeare with his ridiculous, insoluble question - "TO BE or NOT TO BE"? Today these tattered volumes of a genius could be displayed in the garbage dumps in all of the territories of our unbounded motherland.The KnAM Theatre continues its search in the realms of form and actual expression. This time the theme of the play is the theatre itself. The new play "Kill Shakespeare" is the history, founded in the events of the life of this small theatre, in which, as in a drop of water, is reflected the life of many artists. But, this play is not only about an avant-garde theatre from a provincial Russian city, it is about culture generally, and what is means to the modern person.The time of culture is leaving the lives of people, unnoticed. Nothing has any VALUE, but everything has a price. There is no need to murder anyone actually, the indifferent crowd and the negligent administration is doing it much more quickly. Shakespeare himself disappears." www.knam.theatre.ru
Kabeza de zebra, Čile The Kabeza de Zebra Collective is a theatre troupe that uses the streets as its stage with the intention of defeating the barriers imposed by theatre and bringing art to many more people, in their majority occasional spectators. www.kabezadezebra.blogspot.com
"This is a performance composed by a sequence of scenes which have a thematic that may go from the quotidian and the urban to news events, folklore, and popular music, everything seasoned with a lot of humor. It uses as its stage the city’s zebra patterned crosswalks lit by punctual traffic stoplights. Time comes as one of the principal characters in this work because the collective play with the exact time the stop light is red."
5:00 pm
The Festival of the Street Wizards, Pula (FUČ, FestivalUličnihČarobnjaka)
Presentation and exibition
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
FUČ (Festival of Street Wizzards)
Festival of Street Wizards- FUČ is an international street festival which will be held this year from the 9th to the 12th of July in the streets and squares of the city of Pula.
In the past four years, more than 60 groups (around 200 performers) have performed in the festival and the programme was visited by 30 thousand spectators local and foreign. The whole programme of the Festival is free.
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
KUD LJUD, Slovenija
Electrical invasions
where: Bogovićeva Street
Group Ljud is is an informal group of young creators who in theatre and other media recognize the space for cooperation and construction of their ideas. In the creation process of a theatre play, they are always dealing anew with various forms of interaction between the audience and performers and thus constructing theatre as a game, a ritual and as a place of social networking.
They are interested in working in public urban spaces, the eclectic merging of genres, techniques and styles; and they pay a lot of attention to the purpose and social context of their work. They see the group of authors as the only real creator of theatre „gesamtkunstwerk“. www.ljud.si
10:00 pm
Cia.Migui.MandalaSol, Barcelona
The History of the Caged Bird
where: Pavillion at Park Zrinjevac
Juggler autodidacta that centers his work in the research of new forms and scenic concepts merging the Butoh dance with the juggling technique. Currently a member of Produccions Deformes and professor in the Circus School Rogelio Rivel (BCN).
It's a metaphor inspired in the traumas. I seat me preso of myself, my unaware goes out to the surface... My mind full of doubts, where is the kingdom of fear and insecurity. Each step a question... Each two an answer... Each three a way to walk.
The History of the Caged Bird is a show of Butoh Dance Juggling with a high emotional content, where the corporal work speaks by itself with the utilization of technics like Butoh dance and Objects Manipulation (Juggling). www.produccionsdeformes.com
11:00 pm
FROM A TO Z, Zagreb/Rijeka
Every New Paper is Your Paper (Svaki novi list je vaš list)
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
An artistic work that is conceived as a performance and a two channel video instalation presented by Antonija Čačić from Zagreb and Darija Žmak from Rijeka.
The work Every new paper is your paper is an expressive gesture, engaged romantic act of protest against violence. The two channel video instalation is a contribution to the fight against the system of values which is built on intolerance, superficiality, exclusion, and often hate, against the discomfort of society towards everything that is different and where striving for prosperity is only done decoratively. A colaborative artistic work in video form and a performance that talks about violence, processes of violent destruction and reconstruction of our own home, about losses and new beginnings.
12 00 pm
Kabare KUFER, Croatsia
On the honesty or responsibility of capital
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Kazališna udruga frustriranih redatelja (Theatrical Association of Frustrated Directors) exists since 2001. It was founded by the directors Dora Ruždjak and Franka Perković with the goal of promoting young theatre artists. The fact is that tens of actors and directors after completing their study in Drama Arts at ADU have no possibilities to realize the projects which would enable their further creative development and are forced to make numerous compromises so they could somewhat secure their theatre (and also life) existence. With minimal financial support KUFER offers unlimited time for play preparation (some projects took more than a year to prepare) and, what seems particulary important, offers the right for young people to make mistakes. Even though it is this generation of actors and directors who makes up the substance of the future Croatian theatre, cautious theatre institutions are not ready to find out for themselves and support them but rather just wait that somewhere accidentaly all by itself „new talents“ crystalize.
The theatre happening „On the honesty or responsibility of capital“ wants to demistfiy the process of financing of theatre projects in the city of Zagreb following the emergence of an atypical play from the idea to the premiere. At the same time, in the manner of infamous television shows, „tabloid favourite“, we also find out some personal information about the acting troup. The wish of the participants of this project is not to make the best and most viewed play, their criteria are much lower. They want to make financially and conceptually the most transparent play in the history of Croatian theatre.
The spirit of the Dutch poet in search of the power to fly, being the spirit who, with its emergence separates the clouds, he scares the passers by but when they realize who they have seen they smile. With their smiles von Johann Stilter gathers new strength... www.myspace.com/cirkorama
6 30 pm
TENTOKRAT, Belgrade Serbia
Love Potion (Ljubavni napitak)
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Day and night is a love potion on special offer which is presented to the public in the form of a performance.
Promotion of „Love potion“ presents one scene from the comical opera with the same name by the italian composer Gaetano Doniceti, one of the greatest masters of bel canto opera from the first half of the XIX century.
The performance treats the phenomenon of promotion with tasting, that has become popular in the last few years with the emergence of the hypermarket, and investigates the reaction of customers to the artifactual product in a recognizable context.
As the group of colaborators in creating theatrical projects, TENTOKRAT is a changeable collective with maximal flexibility of members whoose work is directed towards festival activities and sharing of ideas, contacts, experiences and creative impulses with all the interested parties and ulterior phenomena.
7:00 pm
ARUŠA Theatre
The sun has set, but my heart still beats like a Turkish delight that falls against the bass drum
(Sunce je zašlo, ali moje srce još uvijek kuca kao Rahatlokum koji pada o bas bubanj)
where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Boris Barta, Darko Jeftić, Nikolina Komljenović, Ivan Marcinel and Karlo Slavikovski founded the Aruša theatre in 2005. Interestingly, the theatre will self destruct exactly on the 21st of December of 2012, the day when the Majan calender stops.
We are working on only this performance, new performers are coming and structuralchanges of the performance are happening. It is wholy based on the research of dr. Ronald David Laing who is one of the most prominent experts on antipsychiatry.
In this play the performers are testing the limits of expression with focusing on extreme non-verbal communication.
9:00 pm
ARKA MUKHOPADYAY (Logos Theatre), India
Shreds and Patches
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
Set up in 2005, Logos Theatre is the banner under which director/ performer Arka Mukhopadhyay creates new works of theatremaking.
The piece takes two questions as its starting point—Who is 'my' Shakespeare? and what does he mean to me as a performer, as an Indian and as a human being? Is he an unquestionable emblem of human genius, or a disturbing symbol of the colonizing force of language? The play attempts to find the answers in fragments of the Bard's plays and sonnets themselves: the shreds and patches of him (the title is taken from the closet scene of 'Hamlet') that are reflected in various realms of our own experiences.
In its present form, the entire performance is based on Jan Kott’s assertion that ‘every age must decide for itself how much of us there is in Shakespeare, and how much of Shakespere there is in us’. It branches out in different directions—into the exterior world of Bollywood, Himesh Reshamyya and IT, Iraq, the Nandigram massacre and occupied Palestine, of intolerance and organized terror.
11:00 pm
Art Association AMBROSIA, Sarajevo
FACT OFF
Where: AKC Medika, Pierottieva Street
AMBROSIA takes number 7 for the very essence of its existence so the fourteenth aniversary is AMBROSIA’s big jubilee. Working in the area of (counter?) cultural production in art and humanistic disciplines mostly, AMBROSIA realized over 150 of its own artistic, interdisciplinary and multimedial „projects“ – art perfomances, concerts, theatre plays, exhibitions, lectures, radio shows, organized a few international festivals and conferences and published a few textual and audio publications.
FACT OFF is a musical-poetical performance which is prepared and performed in the Ambrosia production. It is a combination of electro-acustic musical sequences and spoken word combined in a whole which leaves room for improvisation and experiment also. Stylisticaly, this is a musical journey to the „other side“ of clear musical classifications although it is possible to recognize jazz, ambiental, industrial, electronic, classical, contemporary influences. Genres can be recognized... none are dominant.
Music by Sretni Edi & Indra
Performers by DZIU MEDIKA
6:00 pm
BURKE, Samobor
3+1 Gratis
where: Mochvara, Trnjanski nasip bb
The Burka dance group has already performed on Faki Festival with its plays.
The show is a puppet musical performance – presentation of puppets and vizualization of music of Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix + a musical collage by Očko Čitaćirko.
8:00 pm
SPITFIRE COMPANY, Czech Republic
The World of Condemned
where: Mochvara, Trnjanski nasip bb
Spitfire Company is a progressive group of physical and plastic theatre. The main dramaturgical purpose is to show the human being in a very limited situation. A person who very often must get over their own fear and in the end fight for his own freedom.
Physical theatre with the surrealistic flair of a rotting society that has decided to destroy itself. Each performance is an original painting by Jan Miko. We play to kill some time, we play to kill ourselves. We hate others because we can’t love, we can’t love because we hate ourselves.
The World of Condemned is part of the New Web 2009 project
10:00 pm
Klopka za pionira (Trap for Pioneers), Serbia
Promotion of new album „Dodole“
where: Mochvara, Trnjanski nasip bb
www.klopkazapionira.net Trying to surrmount the frames of popular music, Klopka za pionira developed an unusual expression which is founded on improvisation, creative treatment of instruments, application of noise and cooperation by man and machine. Engaged texts, which have been interpreted as an expresive way, have a special role in their sound. The music of Klopka za pionira has often been described as unacceptable, mainly because of too much noise, disonance, unpleasant vocals but also uncomfortable topics that it speaks about. However, it may be just because of their brave attitude towards expression and because of traveling through paths that are never taken, Klopka za pionira has gained the respect from many people and some kind of cult status even among those who cannot stand it.
