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The performing arts magazine Maska (in English: The Mask) is a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name which was launched in 1920. A bilingual (English and Slovene) magazine appears three times a year and is mostly topic-related.
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Some recent titles include: ''Art, Society, and Feelings'', ''Performing Visuality, Performing Life: practices in Slovenia from the 60s to 80s'', ''History, Experience, Archive'',  ''Europe in Capitalist A(rt) Minor'', ''Nomenclature of Space'', ''Art of Writing'', two issues devoted to an overview of Slovene contemporary dance and art production ''Does Production Dance Alone?'', ''Art in the Grip of Education'', etc. Each issue includes also interviews with artists and theoreticians, reviews of performances and books, as well as articles on the cultural politics.
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With the fall/winter 2006 issue of Maska, the magazine is designed by the Slovakian designer Martin Mastrik, who received an honorable mention at the Slovak National Prize for Design. Mistrik was chosen as Maska’s designer on the basis of a design competition.
  
 
== Maska Symposium ==
 
== Maska Symposium ==

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Maska Institute is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation for publishing, production, education, and research, registered in 1993. It is divided into three departments: Maska Productions (performances, interdisciplinary, and visual artworks), Maska Publishing, and Maska Symposium. Its activities engage in contemporary art and theory, research, experimental performing practices, interdisciplinary art, and critical theory. Maska works on the Maska Symposium series in collaboration with the Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre.


Maska Productions

Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary performing arts events by innovative, exploring artists as well as first projects of the youngest generation. The performances range from engaged interdisciplinary performances tackling issues, such as identity, intimacy, (Slovene) political reality, and mass entertainment to more genre dance works. Recently Janez Janša made reconstructions of founding performances of experimental Slovene theatre from the 60s (Pupilia Papa Pupilo and the Pupilčeks (Pupilija papa pupilo in pupilčki) (2006), awarded at the 41st Bitef in Belgrade, and Monument G (2009)). His Slovene National Theatre [Slovensko narodno gledališče) (2008) won the award for innovation and aesthetic breakthrough at 43rd Borštnik Meeting, Slovene Theatre Festival 2008. Irena Tomažin received the Golden Bird Award 2006 for her performance Caprice [Kaprica], co-produced by the City of Women festival. Maska also produced work by Ivan Peternelj, Magdalena Reiter, Mare Bulc, Neda R. Bric, etc.). We Are All Marlene Dietrich FOR (2005) was a Maska's co-production with Iceland Dance Company, in collaboration with Reykjavik Arts Festival. The project received an EU grant as a part of Trans Danse Europe 2003-2004. Yasminne Hugonet's Of Other (O drugem) (2007) was co-produced by Synalephe (France), the French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana, and City Museum of Ljubljana.

In 2008 Maska organised the East Dance Academy, a project aimed at interdisciplinarity and strong social contextualization of artistic production. The event included reconstructed performances, screenings of dance and performances from 60s and 70s, live archiving, debates, and lectures. With the project, Maska introduced the platform ARTCHIVE – Contaminated with History, a one-year programme intended to historicization of contemporary performing arts in Eastern Europe. East Dance Academy is part of the international project What to Affirm What to Perform?, a cooperation between Allianz Kulturstiftung, Centre for Drama Art Zagreb, The National Center of Dance Bucharest, and Tanzquartier Wien.

The 2009 event Shocking Gala Show, marking the 40th anniversary of the emergence of experimental theatre group Pupilija Ferkeverk, included performances, exhibitions, a conference, and lectures (among others by Hans-Thies Lehmann, Ramsey Burt. The events were financed also through Erste Stiftung, Allianz Kulturstiftung, and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).

Visual and intermedia production includes co-productions with Cona Institute and Intima Virtual Base, whose project "Oppera Internettikka Bollywooddikka", co-produced by Maska, was performed live in in New Delhi, India, in the frame of the CeC & CaC - The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave, presented by The Academy of Electronic Arts and The India International Centre in 2006.

Maska's latest productions were on tour in numerous European countries, USA, Asia and Africa.

Maska Publishing

Maska is engaged in publishing books related to the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, opera, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia and new-media art.

  • The TRANSformations (TRANSformacije) book series covers contemporary performing arts theory, introducing some new terminology and conceptual frameworks by Slovene or foreign authors, including titles such as Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre, Amelia Jones' Body Art. Performing the Subject, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics and Postproduction, Bojana Kunst's Dangerous Connections, Alexei Monroe's Plural Monolith. Laibach and NSK, Jacques Attali's Noise, Aldo Milohnić's Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art, etc.
  • The Mediactions (Mediakcije) book series introduces critical writing on media and society. The series brought translations of 'New Watchdogs' by Serge Halimi, followed by Naomi Klein’s No logo and Monopoly by Sandra B. Hrvatin and Lenart J. Kučič, dealing with the issue of ownership in Slovene media. Includes also A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark, Mike Davis'

Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, and Ariel Dorfmann's and Armand Mattelart's How to Read Donald Duck.

Special issues include books related to performance practise and its refelection, such as Janez Janša - Life [in Progress], containing 55 instructions from the performance and exhibition of the same title and is accompanied with critical writing, Marcel Stefančič's Janez Janša: Biography (in Slovene), and two joint issues of Maska magazine with the Crotian Frakcija Magazine and Performance Research.

Maska Magazine

The performing arts magazine Maska (in English: The Mask) is a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name which was launched in 1920. A bilingual (English and Slovene) magazine appears three times a year and is mostly topic-related.

Some recent titles include: Art, Society, and Feelings, Performing Visuality, Performing Life: practices in Slovenia from the 60s to 80s, History, Experience, Archive, Europe in Capitalist A(rt) Minor, Nomenclature of Space, Art of Writing, two issues devoted to an overview of Slovene contemporary dance and art production Does Production Dance Alone?, Art in the Grip of Education, etc. Each issue includes also interviews with artists and theoreticians, reviews of performances and books, as well as articles on the cultural politics.

With the fall/winter 2006 issue of Maska, the magazine is designed by the Slovakian designer Martin Mastrik, who received an honorable mention at the Slovak National Prize for Design. Mistrik was chosen as Maska’s designer on the basis of a design competition.

Maska Symposium

Maska Institute is a member of the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM).

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