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Past events
17 Oct 2025
18 Oct 2025
SwedenStockholmDansens Hus
In the performance "A Year without Summer" Florentina Holzinger and the ensemble examine the narratives we shape about our world, our bodies, health, decay, and identities: the 21st century quest for eternal life, medical promises, and the risks of unbridled technological development in a world shaped by AI, robotics, and bioengineering.
Co-produced by: Maska Institute.
27 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024
SerbiaBelgradeBitef TheatreBitef Festival
A series of lecture-peformances about sexual pleasure of women titled "Sex Education II - Struggle". The fifth and last part reconstructs the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia. Written by Tjaša Črnigoj, Sendi Bakotić, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović and Lene Lekše. Co-produced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute and City of Women.
14 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024
GermanyBerlinHAU3 Hebbel am Ufer
A performance of "Sex Education II: FIGHT - Spolna vzgoja II: Borba", a final part of a cycle of performative lectures on women's sexual pleasure, reconstructing the struggle for reproductive freedom in Yugoslavia. Directed by Tjaša Črnigoj and coproduced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute, and City of Women.
- Testing Ground (TestG), 2022
Project summary - Peripheral Visions - towards a trans(l)national publishing culture (PVTTPC), 2021
Project summary - TIMEeSCAPES, Images and preformances of time in late capitalism, 2012
Project summary - Up to Nature, 2011
Project summary - Zero Visibility, 2002
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Maska productions
Maska Productions produces performances and other interdisciplinary, visual, and new media events by established and innovative 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. Maska regularly enters co-productions with other cultural and contemporary art organisations, its productions are often awarded and featured in the programmes of the Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance, Borštnik Theatre Festival, and Week of Slovenian Drama.
Monument G (Spomenik G) trailer
Visual and intermedia production, among others, includes co-productions with Aksioma Institute, Cona Institute, Intima Virtual Base, the International Centre of Graphic Arts – MGLC, etc.
In the late 2010s Maska ran The New Post Office project together with Mladinsko Theatre.
Maska publishing
Maska's wide-ranging publishing programme is aimed at offering critical writing on media and society as well as on reflecting the broadest area of contemporary performing arts, from theatre, contemporary dance and new ballet to performance, multimedia, and new-media/intermedia art.
Book series
The TRANSformations (TRANSformacije) book series covers contemporary performing arts theory, introducing some new terminology and conceptual frameworks by Slovene or foreign authors, such as Hans-Thies Lehmann, Amelia Jones, Mladen Dolar, Aleš Erjavec, Jonathan Burrows, Nicolas Bourriaud, Bojana Kunst, Aldo Milohnić, Andrew Hewitt, etc.
The Mediactions (Mediakcije) book series offers some critical, even subversive titles from the fields of media and society. The series has thus far brought translations of authors such as Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe, Serge Halimi, Oliver Razac, Robert Phaller, Naomi Klein, Sandra B. Hrvatin and Lenart J. Kučič, etc.
For a detailed list of titles see below.
Maska, Performing Arts Journal
The institute has been publishing the performing arts journal Maska (The Mask), a successor to the modernist magazine of the same name launched in 1920, since 1993, with bilingual (English and Slovenian) editions available since 2002. For a detailed overview see Maska Journal.
Maska symposium
Maska symposium's basic project is the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, a year-round programme featuring internationally acclaimed scholars and artists, aimed at enhancing analytical and critical thinking about performing arts and facilitating the understanding of historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts to create new forms of reflection. The seminar has thus far hosted some prominent names in the fields of philosophy and theory as well as makers themselves, such as Amelia Jones, Jacques Rancière, Bojana Cvejić, Chantall Mouffe, Bojana Kunst, Tim Etchells, Rabih Mroué, Svetlana Mintcheva, etc.
The participants of the seminar take part in the ongoing platform The Audience Council, organised by Bunker Institute, Via Negativa, and City of Women since 2013, which aims to encourage reflection and stimulate an exchange of the audience's views.
See also
External links
- Maska Institute website
- A list of titles in Maska Publishing programme
- The Monument G performance's trailer on YouTube
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