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Established in 1995, Delak Institute is a production house exploring post-gravity art and outlining a path for space culturalisation. It develops different projects in the field of post-gravity art, such as informances, exhibitions, and theatre productions.

Delak Institute was the co-founder of the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) that strives for a systematic implementation of artistic projects in space programmes. Supremat, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Mladinsko Theatre, 2002

Background

Delak Performing Arts Research Centre was founded in 1995 in Ljubljana by Jana Pavlič, Dragan Živadinov (web projects) and Emil Hrvatin (research). Delak aimed for an open field of research and exchange of diverse contemporary artistic ideas, focusing on contemporary theatre and new technologies. Its information and documentation projects were mainly complex new media projects. Primarily intended to the theory of contemporary theatre practices and their historisation in the Slovene space, Delak published a bilingual CD-ROM, titled Ferdo Delak - the Avantgardist, featuring a multimedia presentation of the conceptual sources and perspectives of the work of the Slovene avant-garde author Ferdo Delak (1905–1968), after whom the institute is named. The publication also presented the most important actors of the then Slovene and European avant-gardes and their poetics. In 2001, Delak published, together with Maska Institute Castration Machines: Theatre and Art in the Nineties [Kastracijski stroji: gledališče in umetnost devetdestih] by Boris Pintar and Jana Pavlič, featuring 22 Slovene authors (also with video clips in the accompanying CD-ROM).

Production

Delak's main mission is the culturalisation of space, which enables the merging of art and science in real space. The vehicle for the work of Dragan Živadinov (attractor, candidate cosmonaut), Dunja Zupančič (visual artist), and Miha Turšič (designer of zero-gravity dwellings), Delak Institute focuses primarily on the research and development of post-gravity art, art that emerges in conditions without gravity (for a detailed description of the concepts see the link below to 50 topics of post-gravity art). Delak Institute is engaged in a number of post-gravity art related projects, widely presented worldwide, including exhibitions, conferences, and informances, as well as other space research related events. Delak cooperates with different Slovenian co-producers and venues to realise Dragan Živadinov’s theatre performances, which are always marked by a rethinking of the strategies of the historical avant-gardes and drawing on the history of theatre.

Delak Institute produces the fifty-year theatre project Noordung::1995-2045, which includes also the performance Biomechanics Noordung (1999), the first complete theatre production in zero gravity, which was performed in a Russian cosmonaut training aircraft.

Delak Institute closely collaborates with the Ljubljana-based Projekt Atol Institute, presently also in the initiative Osmo/za.

Dragan Zivadinov, Dunja Zupancic, and Miha Tursic - Postgravityart: Syntapiens by Performa on YouTube

Vladimir Stojsavljević - Ljubezen in država / Love and Sovereignity by SNG Drama Ljubljana on YouTube

Junction protocols exhibition by Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič, KiBela Art Space, Maribor 2007

International cooperation

Delak Institute regularly collaborates with Eyebeam, New York; Forum Stadtpark, Graz; and the Ljubljana-based Projekt Atol Institute. For more than ten years, Delak is intensely cooperating with Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Star City, and is a member of the European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts (ENICPA).

External links

Gallery

The Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) was founded by Miha Turšič, Dragan Živadinov (Delak Institute), Municipality of Vitanje, Delak Institute and Planit Institute. A space for the synthesis of art and science focused on the post-gravity art was opened in Vitanje in 2012.

Ekscentrik: Nenehna Antigona at Osmo/za, 2017.

Maruša Majer in Ekscentrik: Nenehna Antigona at Osmo/za, 2017.

Ekscentrik: Nenehna Antigona, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Osmo/za, 2017.

Vito Weis in Ekscentrik: Nenehna Antigona at Osmo/za, 2017.

Dragan Živadinov, Slovenian theatre director, founder of the Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet and co-founder of the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT). Vitanje, 2012.

Junction protocols exhibition by Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič, KiBela Art Space, Maribor 2007

Postgravity art 'informance' by the Delak Institute, whose main mission is the culturalisation of space, enabling the merging of art and science in real space. Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2010

Supremat, directed by Dragan Živadinov, Mladinsko Theatre, 2002

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 ==Background==
-[[Delak Institute|Delak Performing Arts Research Centre]] was founded in [[established::1995]] in Ljubljana by [[Jana Pavlič]], [[Dragan Živadinov]] (web projects) and [[Emil Hrvatin]] (research). Delak aimed for an open field of research and exchange of diverse contemporary artistic ideas, focusing on contemporary theatre and new technologies. Its information and documentation projects were mainly complex new media projects. Primarily intended to the theory of contemporary theatre practices and their historisation in the Slovene space, Delak published a bilingual CD-ROM, titled ''Ferdo Delak - the Avantgardist'', featuring a multimedia presentation of the conceptual sources and perspectives of the work of the Slovene avant-garde author [[Ferdo Delak]] (1905&ndash;1968), after whom the institute is named. The publication also presented the most important actors of the then Slovene and European avant-gardes and their poetics. In 2001, Delak published, together with [[Maska Institute]] ''Castration Machines: Theatre and Art in the Nineties'' [Kastracijski stroji: gledališče in umetnost devetdestih] by [[Boris Pintar]] and [[Jana Pavlič]], featuring 22 Slovene authors (also with video clips in the accompanying CD-ROM). Occasionally Delak organised meetings and theatre workshops intended for the professional and a wider audience.
+[[Delak Institute|Delak Performing Arts Research Centre]] was founded in [[established::1995]] in Ljubljana by [[Jana Pavlič]], [[Dragan Živadinov]] (web projects) and [[Emil Hrvatin]] (research). Delak aimed for an open field of research and exchange of diverse contemporary artistic ideas, focusing on contemporary theatre and new technologies. Its information and documentation projects were mainly complex new media projects. Primarily intended to the theory of contemporary theatre practices and their historisation in the Slovene space, Delak published a bilingual CD-ROM, titled ''Ferdo Delak - the Avantgardist'', featuring a multimedia presentation of the conceptual sources and perspectives of the work of the Slovene avant-garde author [[Ferdo Delak]] (1905&ndash;1968), after whom the institute is named. The publication also presented the most important actors of the then Slovene and European avant-gardes and their poetics. In 2001, Delak published, together with [[Maska Institute]] ''Castration Machines: Theatre and Art in the Nineties'' [Kastracijski stroji: gledališče in umetnost devetdestih] by [[Boris Pintar]] and [[Jana Pavlič]], featuring 22 Slovene authors (also with video clips in the accompanying CD-ROM).
-==Programme==
+==Production==
-Since 2005, Delak Institute has evolved into a centre for contemporary art practices, focusing primarily on the research and making of post-gravity art (for a detailed description of the concepts see the link below to 50 topics of post-gravity art), the culturalisation of space by way of research, theory, and documentation, and the production of informances. The vehicle for the work of [[Dragan Živadinov]] (post-gravity theatre abstracts), [[Dunja Zupančič]] (mechatronic artist), and [[Miha Turšič]] (designer of zero-gravity environments), Delak Institute has produced a number of post-gravity art related projects, widely presented worldwide, including exhibitions, symposia, performances, as well as other space research related events.
+Delak's main mission is the culturalisation of space, which enables the merging of art and science in real space. The vehicle for the work of [[Dragan Živadinov]] (attractor, candidate cosmonaut), [[Dunja Zupančič]] (visual artist), and [[Miha Turšič]] (designer of zero-gravity dwellings), Delak Institute focuses primarily on the research and development of post-gravity art, art that emerges in conditions without gravity (for a detailed description of the concepts see the link below to 50 topics of post-gravity art). Delak Institute is engaged in a number of post-gravity art related projects, widely presented worldwide, including exhibitions, conferences, and informances, as well as other space research related events. Delak cooperates with different Slovenian co-producers and venues to realise [[Dragan Živadinov]]’s theatre performances, which are always marked by a rethinking of the strategies of the historical avant-gardes and drawing on the history of theatre.
-==Projects==
+Delak Institute produces the fifty-year theatre project ''Noordung::1995-2045'', which includes also the performance ''Biomechanics Noordung'' (1999), the first complete theatre production in zero gravity, which was performed in a Russian cosmonaut training aircraft.
-===Postgravity art===
-In 2009 the collective presented the concepts of "theatre in zero-gravity" with the project ''Postgravity Art :: Syntapiens'' at the biennial festival of visual performance Performa 09 in New York, produced by EYEBEAM, a regular partner of Delak Institute, in 2008 appeared at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, with the project ''O::O::O, Orbital Orientation Object'', and in 2008 presented the memorial infrastructure of the pioneer of space travel [[Herman Potočnik Noordung]] at the Lazareti Art Workshop in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In 2009, the collective's work has been featured at the exhibition ''A Pair of Left Shoes/Reality Check in Eastern Europe'', organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia, and Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany.
+Delak Institute closely collaborates with the Ljubljana-based [[Projekt Atol Institute]], presently also in the initiative [[Osmo/za]].
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-===The ''Three Elizabethan Tragedies'' trilogy===
-Recently Delak Institute and [[Projekt Atol Institute]] co-produced the first two parts of the trilogy ''Three Elizabethan Tragedies'' [Tri elizabetinske tragedije] by the Croatian playwright Vladimir Stojsavljević, which discusses the relation between theatre and the state in the period of Renaissance through its main protagonists, namely Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The first part of the trilogy, ''The Forbidden Theatre'' [Prepovedano gledališče], premièred in 2008 and the performance ''Marlowe'' (2009), deals with the emergence of Renaissance theatre after a millennium long tradition of passion plays, while Marlowe himself is presented as a founder of a modern artistic paradigm, which is linked to the strengthening of humanistic values and man's emancipation. In 2011 the ''Love and Sovereignty'' part was co-produced by [[Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana]]. All plays were directed by [[Dragan Živadinov]].
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-===Exhibitions===
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-In 2007 the ''Junction protocols'' exhibition by [[Dragan Živadinov]], [[Dunja Zupančič]] and [[Miha Turšič]] took place at the [[KiBela Art Space]] in Maribor.
-On the occasion of the 50-year myth of the culturalisation of outer space, and exhibition and the Informance by the trio Zupančičn&dash;Turšičn&dash;Živadinov was staged at Kulturno informativni centar in Zagreb, Croatia.
-===Lectures===
-In January, March, and May 2009 Delak co-organised three lectures by [[Dragan Živadinov]]: ''Five Inventions of the Modernistic Biography (the case of Mile Korun)'', ''Trieste Constructivist Ambient (1927)'', and ''The 21st Century Postgravity Art''.
 ==International cooperation==

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Background

Production

International cooperation

See also

External links

Gallery

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