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December 2024
29:
"The Horror in Us" videos of lecture series, Dec 2024, Flutgraben Berlin10:
Series of Livestreamed Lectures: "The Horror in Us", Launch of Instagram Page05:
FEST! Celebrating the work of Filmmaker Anna Chasova (UKR)September 2024
21:
Criticism and the Far Right (Reflections: Part 2)07:
Kiosk Festival Day 2.2, Day 3... and an epilogue on masculinityJuly 2024
27:
Kiosk Day 2: "Invasion"13:
Reflections, Part 1: Criticism, “Coaching”, and Manipulating DesireJune 2024
27:
ThreadsApril 2024
24:
An Abuse in the Theatre: some notes17:
Berlin: Some Negatively-Geared Historical Complaining 02:
The GlowFebruary 2024
14:
Open workshops celebrating Digital Cultures of Ukraine, 24th and 25th of February @ Flutgraben, BerlinDecember 2023
30:
On Loneliness and Alienation02:
"Cultural Dialogue with Ukraine", Monday December 4th @ACUD BerlinNovember 2023
02:
Dialogue Beyond the Chat RoomOctober 2023
15:
Dance and the "Outsider": Reflections on Tanzschreiber.de September 2023
27:
WaterWaltz12:
Kiosk Festival Part 2: A Body Under a Microscope02:
Kiosk Festival Special Edition: Handsfree by D'EpogAugust 2023
25:
Kiosk Festival Part 1: For a Sign of Authentic LifeJuly 2023
24:
A Change in Power - Preview of Kiosk Festival 2023, SlovakiaJune 2023
01:
On the Phenomenal ‘Cultural Workers Studio’May 2023
30:
Street Fabrik (tanzschreiber.de)28:
Against the Grain (tanzschreiber.de)02:
Theaterstück: Celebrating 50,000 hits?April 2023
23:
From a Void of Fire and Ice ("Blazing Worlds", for tanzschreiber.de) 18:
Among Lifeless Master-Pieces ("Messa da Requiem", for tanzschreiber.de)13:
A Little Catching Up To DoMarch 2023
18:
The Cool, Deep Maths of the Body ("Deepspace", for tanzschreiber.de)12:
Splitting Roles ("Time Out of Joint", for tanzschreiber.de)February 2023
28:
Still Bursts, Frills, and a Mating Call ("Oiseau", for tanzschreiber.de)19:
A Committed Sense of Rhythm (“Rhythm Is The Place”, for tanzschreiber.de)16:
Introduction to the exhibition 'life: war edition' @Somos Arts, Neukölln 13:
Exhbition and Event Series of Ukrainian Cultures (Feb-March 2023) with Cultural Workers StudioJanuary 2023
24:
Drama (for tanzschreiber.de)17:
A Sensation of a Truth (for tanzschreiber.de)10:
Lounge - Opening of Tanztage 2023 (for tanzschreiber.de)01:
What happened in 2022?01:
monstrousDecember 2022
23:
AWAL / BEGINNING (tanzschreiber.de)12:
Some Uncertainty in the Relationship (“The Inevitable and You”, at tanzschreiber.de)November 2022
30:
Die Steuer-Erklärung (tanzschreiber.de)18:
Dancing with Violence (tanzschreiber.de)18:
Contemporary Freedom and the New Crisis of Theatre Between Ideological Extremism and the 'Cancel Culture' Bratislava: paper01:
Pepe Dayaw: a portrait performance (tanzschreiber.de)October 2022
21:
Take me somewhere nice (tanzschreiber.de)September 2022
28:
swallow me02:
Kiosk Festival - Interview with Artistic Director, Michaela PaštekováAugust 2022
31:
Taneční aktuality - Kiosk Festival03:
Kiosk Festival Epilogue: 'Before and After'01:
Kiosk Day 3: Fragments, Humans + MachinesJuly 2022
30:
Kiosk Day 2: Pranks, Objects, and the Failure of AI29:
Kiosk Day 1: Lifelines and the Body, Barriers28:
Kiosk Festival Slovakia Preview: the "After" and the "New"June 2022
06:
Goodbye to FAKI Festival: 8 years straight out of hell 02:
Dead in the PoolMay 2022
17:
The Present SilenceApril 2022
20:
Contra spem spero! (Hope Against Hope)March 2022
03:
A little note on Ukraine02:
Vale Ben LandauFebruary 2022
27:
Review of the Exhibition 'Projections for Future History'January 2022
11:
The Artist is Absent: Publication in University of Tartu journal "Methis"November 2021
30:
Youth Everlasting And Life Without End: Flogging the mechanical horse in TimișoaraOctober 2021
09:
Soul ChainSeptember 2021
27:
Making Sense of Self-interestAugust 2021
25:
Stop Writing Criticism!04:
Tereza Vejvodová’s Delimitation - published on Czech Dance NewsJuly 2021
21:
Dissecting the European Fairy Tale - A week in Timișoara15:
Should Faki Festival 24 have happened?February 2021
16:
Faki Festival 24 - Escape!January 2021
14:
Faki Festival 2020 WrapDecember 2020
30:
Criticism and CrisisNovember 2020
23:
Festival Preview: Faki 23October 2020
16:
Against Dying Cultures, Dying CriticismSeptember 2020
16:
An Ambitious ManMarch 2020
17:
Anti-hiatus: Art as prevention08:
SLUTFebruary 2020
19:
The Importance of Being EarnestAugust 2019
01:
HiatusJune 2019
01:
Faki Epilogue: "Not Again"May 2019
30:
Faki Day 5: On Freedom in Improvisation and ‘Perfect Agreements’29:
Faki Day 4: The Artist as Commodifier, Elitism and White Supremacy24:
Faki Day 3: Incorrectness and Disability23:
Faki Day 2: Invitations, with Knives and Chains22:
Faki Day 1: Sexual Violence and Capitalism21:
Faki 22: Inequality04:
The Ideology of Collaborative Theatre: The Auteur Director and the Anticapitalist ‘Good Soul’January 2019
11:
Theatre and Power in Europe: VolksbühneNovember 2018
23:
Baltic Circle Theatre Festival in Arterritory17:
All the Sex I Ever Had16:
Baltic Circle, Helsinki14:
Невесомость13:
Workshop12:
Panel Discussion: Latvian Theatre Showcase09:
Lenin's Last Christmas Party04:
The Soul Boot SaleOctober 2018
28:
Later27:
Digital Technology23:
Baltic tour (Tallinn-Riga-Tallinn-Helsinki)September 2018
27:
Estonian History + Theatre = Disaster21:
Notaufnahme - Hospitali11:
DRAAMA Festival Day 7: The Future According to Russians Living in Estonia, and Language09:
DRAAMA Festival Day 6: Pensioner Exploitation and Cyborgs07:
DRAAMA Festival Day 5: Satire! and Angst07:
DRAAMA Festival Day 4: Apartment Building Floods07:
DRAAMA Festival Day 3: Back to where it all began05:
DRAAMA Festival Day 2: Brecht and Brecht04:
DRAAMA Festival, Day 1: Revolution and Complicity03:
DRAAMA Theatre Festival, Tartu, EstoniaMay 2018
29:
Faki Epilogue: The End of Medika27:
Faki Kronik Day 5 - Lift and Carry26:
Faki Kronik Day 4 - Diaries, Shoes, and Playful Light25:
Faki Kronik Day 3 - Wonderful World24:
Faki Kronik Day 2 - La(s) Caída(s)23:
Faki Kronik Day 1 - Hayali21:
Faki returns21:
Gog/Magog 4: EuropeApril 2018
23:
Hate Library: Interviews with Nick ThurstonFebruary 2018
09:
Mirror, MirrorJanuary 2018
15:
NassimNovember 2017
30:
Voila! Festival Wrap-up17:
Voila Day 3 - The Bacchanals (UK)16:
Voila Day 2 - Crossing the Line (UK)15:
Voila Festival Day 1 – Expat Underground (UK/ITA)14:
COP 23, and the Myth of Choice11:
The Empty Fair: COP 2304:
Re-opening: HomeJuly 2017
12:
Closure MessageJune 2017
21:
Faki 2017 published at SamizdatMay 2017
30:
Faki Day 5: Naranjazul Theater Company (FR) and Skaraventer Project (IT)27:
Faki Day 3+4: Waddah Sinada (UK) and Nasheeka Nedsreal (GER)26:
Interlude: Criticism, Vulnerability and Care25:
Faki Day 2 - Blackism (GER) and Sifiso Seleme (RSA)22:
Blackness, and Faki Festival 2017, 23-27 MayDecember 2016
23:
The new wall is up: retirement, and thank-youNovember 2016
11:
Checkpoint 16September 2016
27:
Remake27:
Academia in the End Times: Repetition/s Conference, Ljubljana18:
Repetitions Performance Conference in SloveniaAugust 2016
18:
Occupy London: Energy Tour18:
ScreensJune 2016
11:
Over the Ruins of Amazonia: At the Frontiers of Climate Change01:
Faki Epilogue: Ghosts in the MedikaMay 2016
31:
Faki Day 6: Artifice, everyday violence and non-justice29:
Faki Day 5: Spider-man in Zagreb, Greek suffering, and state volence28:
Faki Day 4: Blackness and Queerness, Self-Punishment, and... Yoga27:
Faki Day 3: Nazism and the Circus, Clinginess, Death in Bengal26:
Faki Day 2: Human Trafficking, Creative Class, and 'Civilisation by Proxy'25:
Faki Day 1: Porn, Drugs, Risk...24:
FAKI Festival 2016 – Emaciated Art for the Age of AusterityMay 2016
13:
Reporting to the Fairytale Academy01:
Back to life with Beckett and Critical ComedyNovember 2015
22:
HiatusOctober 2015
15:
Veda Popovici's Revolutionary Gear09:
Bucharest Art Week and Public SpeakingSeptember 2015
07:
A funny thing happened on the way home, or Platform 8August 2015
31:
Patos OFF11, Smederevo31:
Pulse (Titraj)22:
Coming up: Patos Off Iranjie Festival, SmederevoJuly 2015
16:
Australian Artists: Submit to the Senate Inquiry but understand its futility and greater potentialJune 2015
07:
Faki Festival, and exquisite anarchy06:
Faki: IVETOTELLUSOMETHING05:
Faki: Paulina04:
Faki: Untitled01:
A Piece of PlasticMay 2015
26:
FAKI Festival, Croatia24:
This Thing Called Artist Development24:
The InquilineMarch 2015
03:
100 Grad - Sunday ('Catastrophe Sunday')01:
100 Grad Festival - SaturdayFebruary 2015
23:
White Night Melbourne, and 'the corporation as artist'02:
Staging a Dialogue's Collapse: Artist Orginisations InternationalJanuary 2015
08:
Situation RoomsDecember 2014
19:
2014: theatre + art in europeNovember 2014
24:
Nasty Peace13:
End of Species published in The Vernacularist (NZ)12:
"The rain will not erase it" - Interview with Mladen Alexiev (BG)08:
Report: 3rd International Baku Theatre ConferenceOctober 2014
30:
Baku Theatre Conference, Azerbaijan16:
The Notebook02:
That Bad Word, That Brown LandSeptember 2014
28:
Terni Performance Festival Wrap-Up24:
Terni Performance Festival: Zilla!21:
Terni Performance Festival: Hate Radio05:
Terni International Performing Arts FestivalAugust 2014
26:
Edinburgh Fringe Wrap-up24:
Blind Hamlet22:
#flyerfreeday22:
Stories about Love, Death, and a Rabbit21:
Confirmation17:
Show 616:
Edinburgh: Where Theatre Comes to Die16:
Laughing at Critical Thought13:
KingdomJune 2014
19:
The logic of 'cutting small'11:
LIFT: Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla RichMay 2014
30:
On the Move29:
Berlin Biennale29:
Theatertreffen round-up20:
Theatertreffen: Die letzten Zeugen (The Final Witnesses)14:
Theatertreffen - There Has Possibly Been An IncidentApril 2014
26:
Isaac's Eye18:
anti theater 114:
The Public against CapitalMarch 2014
23:
#1000thLIVE, or The Ethics of the Invisible Hand 12:
Theatre should not talk about Climate Change09:
"Hiatus"January 2014
25:
When the government closes your theatreDecember 2013
05:
On HiatusNovember 2013
14:
Schwarz Tragen (Wearing Black)October 2013
31:
What Really Happened in Lutsk?26:
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit16:
Guest Criticism - London01:
Day 3 - Wandering Hanger Festival01:
Insulting for who?01:
Day 2 - Wandering Hanger FestivalSeptember 2013
28:
Day 1 - Wandering Hanger Festival23:
Festival of the Wandering Hanger, Ukraine21:
The theatre maker and the institution18:
KING03:
Plebs sein - Plebs werden. Im Totem Winkel 2 ('Plebs be - Plebs will be. In Blind Spot 2')July 2013
05:
For the Disconnected Child01:
"Due to its failure of being defined, slotted, circled in, challenges the mainstream status quo" - Border Songs Festival, IndiaJune 2013
05:
Le Grand MacabreMay 2013
27:
Im Toten Winkel 1 - Alain Brossat ('In Blind Spot 1')18:
Medea17:
Hyperion: Letters from a Terrorist15:
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