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December 2024
29:  
"The Horror in Us" videos of lecture series, Dec 2024, Flutgraben Berlin
10:  
Series of Livestreamed Lectures: "The Horror in Us", Launch of Instagram Page
05:  
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 masculinity

July 2024
27:  
Kiosk Day 2: "Invasion"
13:  
Reflections, Part 1: Criticism, “Coaching”, and Manipulating Desire

June 2024
27:  
Threads

April 2024
24:  
An Abuse in the Theatre: some notes
17:  
Berlin: Some Negatively-Geared Historical Complaining
02:  
The Glow

February 2024
14:  
Open workshops celebrating Digital Cultures of Ukraine, 24th and 25th of February @ Flutgraben, Berlin

December 2023
30:  
On Loneliness and Alienation
02:  
"Cultural Dialogue with Ukraine", Monday December 4th @ACUD Berlin

November 2023
02:  
Dialogue Beyond the Chat Room

October 2023
15:  
Dance and the "Outsider": Reflections on Tanzschreiber.de

September 2023
27:  
WaterWaltz
12:  
Kiosk Festival Part 2: A Body Under a Microscope
02:  
Kiosk Festival Special Edition: Handsfree by D'Epog

August 2023
25:  
Kiosk Festival Part 1: For a Sign of Authentic Life

July 2023
24:  
A Change in Power - Preview of Kiosk Festival 2023, Slovakia

June 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 Do

March 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 Studio

January 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:  
monstrous

December 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: paper
01:  
Pepe Dayaw: a portrait performance (tanzschreiber.de)

October 2022
21:  
Take me somewhere nice (tanzschreiber.de)

September 2022
28:  
swallow me
02:  
Kiosk Festival - Interview with Artistic Director, Michaela Pašteková

August 2022
31:  
Taneční aktuality - Kiosk Festival
03:  
Kiosk Festival Epilogue: 'Before and After'
01:  
Kiosk Day 3: Fragments, Humans + Machines

July 2022
30:  
Kiosk Day 2: Pranks, Objects, and the Failure of AI
29:  
Kiosk Day 1: Lifelines and the Body, Barriers
28:  
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 Pool

May 2022
17:  
The Present Silence

April 2022
20:  
Contra spem spero! (Hope Against Hope)

March 2022
03:  
A little note on Ukraine
02:  
Vale Ben Landau

February 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 Timișoara

October 2021
09:  
Soul Chain

September 2021
27:  
Making Sense of Self-interest

August 2021
25:  
Stop Writing Criticism!
04:  
Tereza Vejvodová’s Delimitation - published on Czech Dance News

July 2021
21:  
Dissecting the European Fairy Tale - A week in Timișoara
15:  
Should Faki Festival 24 have happened?

February 2021
16:  
Faki Festival 24 - Escape!

January 2021
14:  
Faki Festival 2020 Wrap

December 2020
30:  
Criticism and Crisis

November 2020
23:  
Festival Preview: Faki 23

October 2020
16:  
Against Dying Cultures, Dying Criticism

September 2020
16:  
An Ambitious Man

March 2020
17:  
Anti-hiatus: Art as prevention
08:  
SLUT

February 2020
19:  
The Importance of Being Earnest

August 2019
01:  
Hiatus

June 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 Supremacy
24:  
Faki Day 3: Incorrectness and Disability
23:  
Faki Day 2: Invitations, with Knives and Chains
22:  
Faki Day 1: Sexual Violence and Capitalism
21:  
Faki 22: Inequality
04:  
The Ideology of Collaborative Theatre: The Auteur Director and the Anticapitalist ‘Good Soul’

January 2019
11:  
Theatre and Power in Europe: Volksbühne

November 2018
23:  
Baltic Circle Theatre Festival in Arterritory
17:  
All the Sex I Ever Had
16:  
Baltic Circle, Helsinki
14:  
Невесомость
13:  
Workshop
12:  
Panel Discussion: Latvian Theatre Showcase
09:  
Lenin's Last Christmas Party
04:  
The Soul Boot Sale

October 2018
28:  
Later
27:  
Digital Technology
23:  
Baltic tour (Tallinn-Riga-Tallinn-Helsinki)

September 2018
27:  
Estonian History + Theatre = Disaster
21:  
Notaufnahme - Hospitali
11:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 7: The Future According to Russians Living in Estonia, and Language
09:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 6: Pensioner Exploitation and Cyborgs
07:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 5: Satire! and Angst
07:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 4: Apartment Building Floods
07:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 3: Back to where it all began
05:  
DRAAMA Festival Day 2: Brecht and Brecht
04:  
DRAAMA Festival, Day 1: Revolution and Complicity
03:  
DRAAMA Theatre Festival, Tartu, Estonia

May 2018
29:  
Faki Epilogue: The End of Medika
27:  
Faki Kronik Day 5 - Lift and Carry
26:  
Faki Kronik Day 4 - Diaries, Shoes, and Playful Light
25:  
Faki Kronik Day 3 - Wonderful World
24:  
Faki Kronik Day 2 - La(s) Caída(s)
23:  
Faki Kronik Day 1 - Hayali
21:  
Faki returns
21:  
Gog/Magog 4: Europe

April 2018
23:  
Hate Library: Interviews with Nick Thurston

February 2018
09:  
Mirror, Mirror

January 2018
15:  
Nassim

November 2017
30:  
Voila! Festival Wrap-up
17:  
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 Choice
11:  
The Empty Fair: COP 23
04:  
Re-opening: Home

July 2017
12:  
Closure Message

June 2017
21:  
Faki 2017 published at Samizdat

May 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 Care
25:  
Faki Day 2 - Blackism (GER) and Sifiso Seleme (RSA)
22:  
Blackness, and Faki Festival 2017, 23-27 May

December 2016
23:  
The new wall is up: retirement, and thank-you

November 2016
11:  
Checkpoint 16

September 2016
27:  
Remake
27:  
Academia in the End Times: Repetition/s Conference, Ljubljana
18:  
Repetitions Performance Conference in Slovenia

August 2016
18:  
Occupy London: Energy Tour
18:  
Screens

June 2016
11:  
Over the Ruins of Amazonia: At the Frontiers of Climate Change
01:  
Faki Epilogue: Ghosts in the Medika

May 2016
31:  
Faki Day 6: Artifice, everyday violence and non-justice
29:  
Faki Day 5: Spider-man in Zagreb, Greek suffering, and state volence
28:  
Faki Day 4: Blackness and Queerness, Self-Punishment, and... Yoga
27:  
Faki Day 3: Nazism and the Circus, Clinginess, Death in Bengal
26:  
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 Austerity

May 2016
13:  
Reporting to the Fairytale Academy
01:  
Back to life with Beckett and Critical Comedy

November 2015
22:  
Hiatus

October 2015
15:  
Veda Popovici's Revolutionary Gear
09:  
Bucharest Art Week and Public Speaking

September 2015
07:  
A funny thing happened on the way home, or Platform 8

August 2015
31:  
Patos OFF11, Smederevo
31:  
Pulse (Titraj)
22:  
Coming up: Patos Off Iranjie Festival, Smederevo

July 2015
16:  
Australian Artists: Submit to the Senate Inquiry but understand its futility and greater potential

June 2015
07:  
Faki Festival, and exquisite anarchy
06:  
Faki: IVETOTELLUSOMETHING
05:  
Faki: Paulina
04:  
Faki: Untitled
01:  
A Piece of Plastic

May 2015
26:  
FAKI Festival, Croatia
24:  
This Thing Called Artist Development
24:  
The Inquiline

March 2015
03:  
100 Grad - Sunday ('Catastrophe Sunday')
01:  
100 Grad Festival - Saturday

February 2015
23:  
White Night Melbourne, and 'the corporation as artist'
02:  
Staging a Dialogue's Collapse: Artist Orginisations International

January 2015
08:  
Situation Rooms

December 2014
19:  
2014: theatre + art in europe

November 2014
24:  
Nasty Peace
13:  
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 Conference

October 2014
30:  
Baku Theatre Conference, Azerbaijan
16:  
The Notebook
02:  
That Bad Word, That Brown Land

September 2014
28:  
Terni Performance Festival Wrap-Up
24:  
Terni Performance Festival: Zilla!
21:  
Terni Performance Festival: Hate Radio
05:  
Terni International Performing Arts Festival

August 2014
26:  
Edinburgh Fringe Wrap-up
24:  
Blind Hamlet
22:  
#flyerfreeday
22:  
Stories about Love, Death, and a Rabbit
21:  
Confirmation
17:  
Show 6
16:  
Edinburgh: Where Theatre Comes to Die
16:  
Laughing at Critical Thought
13:  
Kingdom

June 2014
19:  
The logic of 'cutting small'
11:  
LIFT: Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich

May 2014
30:  
On the Move
29:  
Berlin Biennale
29:  
Theatertreffen round-up
20:  
Theatertreffen: Die letzten Zeugen (The Final Witnesses)
14:  
Theatertreffen - There Has Possibly Been An Incident

April 2014
26:  
Isaac's Eye
18:  
anti theater 1
14:  
The Public against Capital

March 2014
23:  
#1000thLIVE, or The Ethics of the Invisible Hand
12:  
Theatre should not talk about Climate Change
09:  
"Hiatus"

January 2014
25:  
When the government closes your theatre

December 2013
05:  
On Hiatus

November 2013
14:  
Schwarz Tragen (Wearing Black)

October 2013
31:  
What Really Happened in Lutsk?
26:  
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
16:  
Guest Criticism - London
01:  
Day 3 - Wandering Hanger Festival
01:  
Insulting for who?
01:  
Day 2 - Wandering Hanger Festival

September 2013
28:  
Day 1 - Wandering Hanger Festival
23:  
Festival of the Wandering Hanger, Ukraine
21:  
The theatre maker and the institution
18:  
KING
03:  
Plebs sein - Plebs werden. Im Totem Winkel 2 ('Plebs be - Plebs will be. In Blind Spot 2')

July 2013
05:  
For the Disconnected Child
01:  
"Due to its failure of being defined, slotted, circled in, challenges the mainstream status quo" - Border Songs Festival, India

June 2013
05:  
Le Grand Macabre

May 2013
27:  
Im Toten Winkel 1 - Alain Brossat ('In Blind Spot 1')
18:  
Medea
17:  
Hyperion: Letters from a Terrorist
15:  
Why.