INGE GAPPMAIER, NINA GOJIĆ, DIANA MEHEIK (AT/HR): REHEARSING ATTENTION

8. 12., 22: 00 @ SC Gallery

10. 12., 21:00 @ &TD big hall

Rehearsing Attention is inviting spectators to watch performances with special viewing tasks.

We will articulate ways of noting this experience collectively during separate discussion

sessions. Tasks are often used in performance-making to generate material. Inverting this logic and making it a principle of watching enhances our engagement as spectators and (re)opens the question of the labour of the spectator, a question that seems all that relevant in the contemporary performing arts. Rehearsing Attention is inviting spectators to watch performances with special viewing tasks and reflect this experience during separate discussion sessions. The performances we will be watching with tasks in Ganz festival are No Title by Mette Edvardsen and Compass by Petra Hrašćanec, Saša Božić and Simone Aughterlony.

Inge Gappmaier is a choreographer, dancer, dance-pedagog and -researcher based in Vienna.

Nina Gojić is a dramaturge based in Zagreb, mostly working in contemporary dance, devised

theatre and interdisciplinary projects. She writes essays, screenplays and performance texts.

Diana Meheik works as a dramaturge at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. She has also written and adapted plays for stage (Rose of Jericho, Mania, Chronicles of Travnik).

They started this research project during Tanzplattform Deutschland in Frankfurt/Main, 2016 as part of the working group At Work. Curious about the labour of the spectator, they continued their research by developing tasks for spectators in order to examine different ways of watching performances and structuring attention.