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Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression - FAKI > Call "The
elite-resistant" (Croatia)

The 19th edition of the Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression -
FAKI - is held in Zagreb from May 24 to May 29, 2016, in the various
adapted spaces of the former medical factory Medika, Pierottijeva 11. The
international Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression was first
organized in 1998, in reaction to the elitism, but also commercialization
of the institutionalized cultural scene, defined by political and artistic
one-sidedness to the point of obstructing the independent avant-garde,
subversive and experimental practice of theater and performing artists.
For nineteen years FAKI is working under exactly the same premises: by
criticizing and affirming the interconnectedness of political relevance
with personal and artistic choices, FAKI presents critical and
experimental artwork which creates and promotes new models of art
production.

As a festival of alternative theater, street theater, performance, off-
and low-budget theater, FAKI has, in the last few years, become the
central place for an overview of innovative, critical and independent
(self-produced), international theater and performance scene, maintained
by traveling artists and groups whose research on original, experimental
and research models of art expression generates universal existential
spectacles and performances. Presented aesthetics and poetics are being
compared between themselves and upgraded, thereby establishing new
performance styles and criterions.

This year's festival theme is 'the elite-resistant'. From the very
beginning, FAKI has preserved a position of socially engaged and
politically enlightened advocation for the principles of equality,
egalitarianism and freedom, that expresses its beliefs through alternative
communication strategies, detecting and naming new emersions of social
disparity. Elitism is one of those emersions that appear periodically,
each time when a critical social mass adapts to new economical and
political conditions. Theater as an expensive, collective art has in the
last centuries become a bourgeois art, within which it serves as a
platform for elite gathering, where the elite, with its absent-mindedness
and indifference, weakens the message and the expression of the artwork.
Alternative theater represents a deviation from that concept and hence its
activities are devalued by disregard and elimination from the dominant
social-economical courses. This year we want to remind, as well as point
afresh to this fact. We invite you to redefine the concept of elite, to
rethink the importance and role of the audience in creating a performance
work and to investigate the elements of destabilization of artistic
process, that are conventionalizing artwork, namely the message the public
is being exposed to.


The organisers hereby  invite performance artists and collectives to apply
for participation in FAKI 19, devoted to ''the elite-resistant',
regardless of the genre, form and period of their vision. FAKI gives an
art residency three weeks prior to the festival, for final rehearsals and
international premiere on the opening day, 24th of May. Our performance
halls are equipped with basic technical tools (light, sound, projection
screens and projectors, technicians, stage manager). FAKI provides
technical and stage assistance, covers or refunds cheap travel costs,
modest accommodation and vegetarian food for artists residing outside
Zagreb. FAKI doesn't give fees or per diems. Admission to the entire
festival is free.

Deadline: 20 January 2016

Find all details online: http://www.attack.hr/faki/

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