Nov 10. Failure as Practice / Darko Dragičević & Collaborators
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
– John Cage
Failure is something we are ashamed of, we want to hide it, make it unnoticeable. While success integrates, failure always means possible exclusion or rejection. What defines failure in the first place depends not only on individual but also on social and structural parameters. The format ”Failure as Practice” artistically deals with the topic, scratches at norms of social perception, existing relations of power and premises of social coexistence. It playfully explores the transformative power of mistakes and failures.
In a series of interventions, six participating artists encounter the audience. In various experimental set-ups, they face paradoxical, sometimes unsolvable tasks that not only confront the performers but also the audience with the question of how we deal with failure. Human weaknesses and vulnerabilities are addressed and a collective experience is created.
This event is an introductions to the next practice module, which will be realized in Weld in 2025, in collaboration with local artists from Stockholm.
November 10 at 5pm – 8pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book: book.weld.se
Time schedule:
5pm – 6pm Intervention 1
6pm – 6.15 Break
6.15 – 7pm Artists talk
7pm – 8pm Intervention 2
Concept, artistic direction: Darko Dragičević
Artistic collaboration and performance: Elinor Tollerz Bratteby, Anna Koch, Lana Pavkov, Manuel Rodriguez, Tove Salmgren, Martin Sonderkamp
A production of Goethe-Institut Belgrade
Coproduction: Theater im Ballsaal and International Dance Solo Festival Bonn (DE), Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture and Goethe-Institut Skopje (MK), Cofestival and Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia (SI), Tanzfabrik Berlin (DE) / current version Stockholm: Weld Stockholm (SE)
Darko Dragičević (RS/DE)
is a visual and performance artist, filmmaker and lecturer based in Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores the interfaces between choreography, performance, dance, visual art, video and film across different media. Dragičević’s work reflects a critical examination of the conditions of artistic production in a post-capitalist, high-performance society and focuses on the aesthetics of economy, identity, labor, activism and social organisation. In addition to his involvement in interdisciplinary projects and cross-media collaborations, he publishes, lectures and curates collaborative projects.
Elinor Tollerz Bratteby (SE)
works in fields of dance and choreography in Sweden and internationally since 2012. She cherishes collaborations with independent artists and contexts outside of institutions. Elinor’s work emphasizes experimental handling of materials and situations. The entering point is inevitably dance and choreography, which find their way into other fields of knowledge and art forms like music, poetry, fashion or photography, for the sake of endless surprise when one warps the other. www.elinortb.com
Anna Koch (SE)
is a dancer/choreographer and the artistic director and founder of Weld. In her artistic work, Koch moves through different practices and fields with a base in choreography. From performance installations to movement-based choreographies, word and text-based works, as well as video. She delves into the exploration of performative relationships that exist between language, imagery, and sensory perception.
Lana Pavkov (RS)
is a multimedia directress who occasionally practices performance too. Her creative journey spans various forms of storytelling, from the stage to the screen, blending performance, visual art, and narrative. From 2019 – 2021 she has been deeply involved in a project with Darko Dragičević called Lie and Theft as Pratice, where she honed her skills in live art and performance. Recently, she founded a drama studio BUKA (noise) in her hometown, dedicated to nurturing young talent and fostering creative exploration. Simultaneously, she is developing a series of documentary projects.
Manuel Rodríguez (ES/SE)
an artist from Úbeda (Andalusia), works in dance, choreography and visual arts. He has been recognized with several international awards, both as a performer and for his artistic creations. Throughout his career, he has produced more than 15 stage works performed in theaters throughout Europe, as well as editorial, audiovisual and installation works. He is currently in his second year of the master’s degree “New Performative Practices” at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).
Tove Salmgren (SE)
is based in Stockholm where she works with performance, dance, choreography, text and curatorial practices. As a choreographer she has an appetite for shifted perspectives and realities, often through interventions of a minor scale, based on the interest in negotiating what art (and non-art) can do, and be, as a place for the emancipatory unknown. Tove is employed as a Senior Lecturer of Choreography and head of programme for a NPP, master in choreography at Stockholm University of the Art’s (SKH).
Martin Sonderkamp (SE/DE)
is an artist who has developed an interdisciplinary approach to dance and choreography since 1993, realizing stage productions, participatory audience experiences, audio guides, mixed-media installations, and performance scores. He is a dedicated practitioner of co-creation, actively engaging in research and experimental collaboration with artists in sound art, dance, visual art, and music. Since 2017, he has been a Professor of Choreography at the University of the Arts in Stockholm.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm