Delak Institute

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Center za raziskave scenskih umetnosti DELAK, Ljubljana

Župančičeva 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.delak.eu

info@delak.eu

Phone386 (0) 1 241 5812

Events abroad

Past Events

• 3 Jul 2023

  Croatia Zadar Kazalište lutaka Zadar

  
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  A puppetry performance Aloneness directed by Marko Čeh presenting poetry of Marko Brecelj, produced by Delak Institute and co-produced by Maribor Puppet Theatre

  at the Mediteraneo, Mediteranski lutkarski festival

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• 6 Sep 2018

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  10 Sep 2018

  Austria Linz Ars Electronica Center,Postcity

  
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  The participatory intermedia installation KOSMICA Parliament by Miha Turšič, co-produced by Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), Kapelica Gallery, and Delak Institute; Infinite In-Between by Mojca Založnik, produced by Kapelica Gallery; Singing Sand by Tadej Droljc; Maja Smrekar contributing to the Bog Concert Night; and aqua_forensic by Robertina Šebjanič and Gjino Šutić, featuring Aquatocene / The Subaquatic Quest for Serenity by Robertina Šebjanič, also a speaker at a panel and artist talk,

  at the Ars Electronica Festival Linz

  
  

  
  

• 1 Apr 2017

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  30 Jul 2017

  Singapore Singapore Artscience Museum

  
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  Dragan Živadinov (Delak Institute) participates in the section Space Art of the exhibition The Universe and Arts, An Artistic Voyage through Space

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 20 Mar 2017

  France Paris La Colonie

  
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  Dunja Zupančič/Miha Turšič/Dragan Živadinov (Delak Institute, members of the Committee for the Cultural Utilisations of Space ITACCUS) participate with the space-class act

  at the Kosmica Festival at the Spring Meetings of the International Astronautical Federation

  
  

  
  

• 4 Mar 2017

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  20 Mar 2017

  Croatia Zagreb Kulturno informativni centar

  
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  An exhibition on the occasion of the 50-year myth of the culturalisation of outer space, and Informance by Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič and Dragan Živadinov, produced by Delak Institute,

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 9 Jan 2014

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  8 May 2014

  Turkey Istanbul Istanbul Modern

  
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  The joint exhibition Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond also featuring Slovene artists Vesna Bukovec, Ana Čigon and the trio Dunja Zupančič/Miha Turšič/Dragan Živadinov (Delak Institute), and Zdenka Badovinac, the director of the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, as advisor to curators,

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Delak Institute

Background

In 1995 Delak Performing Arts Research Centre was founded 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. Its principal activity was the presentation of contemporary theatre and other related arts in various contexts. Its information and documentation projects were mainly complex new media projects. Castration Machines: Theatre and Art in the Nineties by Boris Pintar and Jana Pavlič was published by Delak and Maska in 2001, 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.

Projects and programme

Delak has recently produced the first part 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 performance Marlowe (2009), directed by Dragan Živadinov, 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. The last part of the trilogy The Forbidden Theatre [Prepovedano gledališče], also directed by Živadinov, premièred in 2008.

In January, March, and May 2009 Delak 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

Delak is a member of the European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts (ENICPA).