Bibliography (selected)
1. Books
Nevarne povezave - Telo, filozofija in razmerje do umetnega (Dangerous Connections - Body, Philosophy and Relationship to the Artificial); ISBN: 961-91078-7-X, published by Maska, Ljubljana, 2004.
Impossible Body, Body and Machine: Theatre, Representation of the Body and Relation to the Artificial, Maska, Ljubljana, 1999.
Višnje v čokoladi, Apokalipsa, Ljubljana, 1997.
2. Essays, theoretical articles, researches in magasines and books (selected)
Performing of the Truth: Metamorphoses of Wayn Traub; Published in Maska, vol. XIX, no. 7-8, 2004.
The Organization of Happiness and the Exhausted Body; Published in: 'hopefully someone will carry out great venegance on me', Catalogue of Impure Company / Hooman Sharifi, Brussels, 2004.
Virtual Biopolitical Parliament: Davide Grassi’s DemoKino; Written for DemoKino / Davide Grassi, www.demokino.net; www.aksioma.org.
On Strategic Interventions in Performance Art: Self-Representation of the Body, Frakcija, Zagreb, Croatia.
Politics of Affection and Uneasiness, First Published in Monty catalogue (Antwerp, Belgium), November 2004 and Maska, no. 5-6 (82-83), Sum-Aut, 2003, pp. 23 – 26.
Subversion and the Dancing Body: Autonomy on Display, Performance Research; Taylor & Francis Ltd, July, 2003.
On strategies in Contemporary Performing Arts, Maska, Ljubljana, Slovenia, January, 2003.
The Form of Global Happiness, Catalogue of Hooman Sharifi Impure Company, Bergen, Norway, February 2003.
Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Between Organic and Technological, Aesthetics of the Body and the Art of Postmodernism, Ph. D. dissertation - summary in English, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Humanities / Arts, Department of Philosophy, Aesthetics, 2002
Strategies of subjectivity in contemporary performance art, Maska (Ljubljana), 2002, Year. XVII, No. 74-75, p. 10-14, 77-80.
Opasne veze / Dangerous Links, Frakcija, Actor and / as Author, issue no. 20 / 21, automn, 2001.
"Kiborg i moje tijelo", Treca, 2001, Year III, No. 1-2, p. 0347-0356.
"L'impossibile diventa possibile", in: La scena digitale, Nuovi media per la danza, ed. Armando Menicacci in Emanuele Quinz, Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2001.
"The Digital Body: History of Body Visibility", in: Digitized Bodies / Virtual Spectacles, ed. Nina Czegledy, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest 2001, p. 13 - 28.
"Energy link between body and machine: last link with nature, first with artificial", Frakcija, 19, March 2001, p. 70 - 82.
"Teknolojik ve Organik Arasinda: Beden Estetigi", XXI, Mimarlik Kulturu Dergisi, 8. May 2001.
"Body and My Space: Is there a Space without the Body?", Communication Front 2001, Cyber and my Space - Netizens and the New Geography, June 01 -14, 2001.
"Avtonomna telesa plesa", in: Theories of contemporary dance, ed. Emil Hrvatin, Maska, Ljubljana 2001.
"Nelagodje ob sodobnosti", Delo, Year 43, (11. 1. 2001), p. 42.
"Sitni ostanki narave, esej ob koncu tisočletja", Delo, Year 42, No. 7 (10. 1. 2000), p. 8.
"Body from East to West", Frakcija, 10/11, 1999, p. 134 - 137.
"Nove tehnologije in prezenca telesa", Maska, Year 8, No. 3/4 (1999), p. 18 - 21.
"Impossible Becomes Possible", Performans Research, vol. 4., No. 2 (1999), p. 47 - 51
"Ameriški model na Poljskem", Maska, Year 7, 1998, p. 20 - 2.
"Pogovor z Vladom Repnikom: čas polžev", Maska, Year 7, p. 24 - 25, 1997/98, p. 4 - 6.
"Orifices and Fluids", Frakcija, No.6/7 - January 1998, p. 60 - 62.
"Of Body Natural and Artificial", Frakcija, 9, 1998, p. 20 - 22.
"(What was this about, John?)", Maska, year. 7, p. 3/4; (summer-automn 1998), p. 76 - 77.
"Odsotnost spomina"; Memory (ed. Stojan Pelko, Irena Štaudohar, Vesna Teržan), Ekran, Year 23, No. 7-8+9-10, 1997, p. 67 - 73.
"The Final Frontier, Die Autopsie des Schönen Körpers", Ballet International/Tanz Aktuell, 8/9, August 1997, p. 40 - 44.
"The Last Territory", Frakcija, 4, 1997, p. 40-42.
3. Conferences and symposiums (selected)
Wireless Relationships: Attraction, Emotion, Politics; Lecture at the Conference: Ohne Schnur, Art and Wireless Communication (3-4. April, 2004).
"Comprehensible Body: Incomprehensible Flesh", Lecture at the Conference: Vague, Volatile, Incomprehensible, Centar za dramsku umjetnosti, Akademija Dramske umetnosti u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Croatia 7. 11. 2002 - 10. 11. 2002.
"Performing the Body: The Problem of Difference", Lecture at the Festival Infant, 25. June, 2002, Novi Sad, Serbia.
"Dangerous Links: Strategies of Subjectivity", Lecture in Multimedia Center MAMA, Zagreb, 21. June, Zagreb, Croatia.
"Der Anderen Vorstellen", Lecture at the Festival Tanztendenzen, 12. junij 2002, Greifsvald, Germany.
"Performing the Body: Performing the Identity, International Conference of The Bulgarian Theatre Association: Cultural Bridges - The Theatre in Conflicting Regions / Situations, 4 - 5. June, Varna, Bolgaria.
"Body Art", Lecture in the Academy for Visual Arts, 16. April, 2002, Ljubljana.
Dagnerous Links: Body Art, Aesthetics and Ethics, International Colloqium of Slovenian Association of Aesthetics, Ljubljana.
"Bodies / Ambients", Lecture in a Seminar Socrates / Erasmus, University of Antwerp, 28 7. February 2002.
"I want to share you - what are you doing to me", Lecture at the conference Links / Ligacoes, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto Capital Europeia da Cultura, Porto, 1 - 5. 11. 2001.
Nevarne povezave / Dangerous Links, Cankarjev dom, Seminar sodobnih scenskih umetnosti / Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, 1. 10. 2001 and 15. 10. 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"Body and My Space: Is There a Space Without the Body", Conference Communication Front 2001, Cyber and My Space - Netizens and the New Geography, 1 - 14. 6. 2001, Plovdiv, Bolgaria.
"Energy as the Link between the Body and Machinery: the Last Bond with Nature, the first with the Artificial", Colloqium Aesthetics and Beauty Today, Slovenian Association of Aesthetics, 19 - 20. 4. 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"Telo in stroj: hibridni prostori umetnosti", Prostori umetnosti, Academy for Visual Arts, 12. 4. 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"Models of slovenian theatre, Bitef Teatar, CENPI, 24. 02. 2001, Belgrade, Serbia.
"Body Between Organic and Technological, The Disappearance of the Borders and New Forms of Knowledge in the Media Arts", symposium KUNST. ZEICHEN. TECHNIK, Institut fur Wissenschaft und Kunst, University of Vienna, 13 - 14th January 2001, Vienna, Austria.
"Aesthetics of the Body: Between the Organic and the Technological", 1st Medditeranean Congress of Aesthetics, 6 - 8. 11. 2000, Athens, Grece.
"The Presence of the Body between Organic and the Artificial", 4th Europian Conference for Feminist Research, 28. 9 - 1. 10. 2000, Bologna, Italy.
"The Autonomous Bodies of Dance", Conference Aesthetics Between Art and Culture, Slovenian Association of Aesthetics, 29 - 30. 3. 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"The Fragmented Body and the Question of Normativity", Colloqium New Normativity in Aesthetics, Slovenian Association of Aesthetics, 9 - 10. 9. 1999, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"The Identity of the Body and the Internet", Conference Creativity and Consumption, University of Luton, 29 - 31. 3. 1999, Luton, Great Britain.
"What was this about, John?", International Conference on Contemporary Dance, 25 - 26. 7. 1998, Bytom, Poland.
"When Cutting The Body, What Are We Watching", referat, XIV. International Congress of Aesthetics, 1 - 5. 9. 1998, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"Body art, preformance or theatre", Symposium Reality on scene, Eurokaz, 28. 6. 1997, Zagreb, Croatia.
4. Activities (selected)
Member of the editorial board of MASKA - magazine for theatre, dance and new technologies in arts; since 1998.
Member of the Executive Counsel of The Slovenian Assotiation of Aesthetics; since 1999.
Member of the Artistic Counsel of the EXODOS festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia; since 1999.
Bojana Kunst
16.03.2007 |
is a philosopher and contemporaty art theoretician. She was studying in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and currently works at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.
She graduated in 1994 from Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. She began to work as a young researcher in year 1996 at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy - Aesthetics. With the young researcher grant from the The Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia she completed in the year 1988 her Master Degree from Philosophy with the thesis The Problem of the Body in Theatre, Impossible Body. In the year 2002 she complited and defended her Ph. D. dissertation with the title Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Between Organic and Technological, Aesthetics of the Body and the Art of Postmodernism. She has the Ph. D. from philosophy - aesthetics.
Her primary research interests are the problem of the body in the contemporary performance, theatre and dance, gender studies, philosophy of the body, art and technology, art and science, theatre and dance studies, representation of contemporary identities.
For number of years she is working as a dramaturg with different Slovenian directors and choreographers, writing for a numerous international publications (Maska, Frakcija, TanzAktuell / Ballet International, Performance Research, etc.) and books, participating at the conferences and festivals around Europe. She also participated as the guest lecturer in the Socrates / Erasmus seminar at the University of Antwerp in February 2002.
In year 1999 she published a book The Impossible Body - Body and Machine: Theatre, Representation of the Body and Relation to the Artificial. From October 2002 to October 2003 she was the research fellow at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and from January 2003 she is the researcher at the University of Ljubljana - Department of Sociology.
In year 2004 she published a book Dangerous Connections - Body, Philosophy and Relationship to the Artificial.
She is the member of the editorial board of the magazine for the contemporary performing arts Maska, member of the International contemporary dance network Aerowaves, and vice-president of the Slovenian Society of the Aesthetics.
Email: bojana@kunstbody.org
Web page: www.kunstbody.org
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