The essay deals with the value of culture and migration trends for sustainable development of cities. The cultural policies of selected examples of European cities are presented from the perspective of cultural industries and in the context of the universal concept of “the right to the city” (Lefebvre, Harvey, etc.). Emphasis is placed on the analysis of the position of the immigrant communities in the intercultural geography of Ljubljana, their inclusion into the urban cultural life and their role in sustainable development of the city. The essay has been published in a scientific monograph that explores the role of national and minority cultures in the economic, political and social development of transnational formations, including the European Union.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1014381
In the Slovenian territory, the collections of museums, monasteries, churches, castles and palaces contain ample fine art materials with musical symbols. The article explores the interplay of secular and religious content on selected examples of the Slovenian art heritage found in the churches and palaces from the 16th to 18th centuries. The iconographical motifs reveal the presence of various spiritual worlds in the cultural heritage, suggesting that the symbolic value of the artwork was a priority while the selection of spiritual and/or secular themes was of limited significance.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56519778
The essay deals with naming procedures as language plays that actively co-shape the social and cultural-political space. It has been published in a scientific monograph that provides methodologies for the research of play in the contemporary performing arts and introduces the model of “playing culture” as a conceptual tool for exploring the relationships between culture, society and the theatrical event. (The model has been developed by The Theatrical Event working group in the scope of the International Federation for Theatre Research). The essay approaches “playing culture” through Austin’s speech act theory and sheds light upon the performativity of culture in the Slovenian space.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3619675
Maja Šorli uses the notion of Slovenian postdramatic spring to denote the peak period of postdramatic theatre in the Slovenian performing arts of the 1990s. The scientific monograph presents and critically analyses the term postdramatic theatre (Hans-Thies Lehmann), studying its characteristics on representative examples by Slovenian authors and exploring the influence of their aesthetics upon the development of direction and acting. Focus is placed upon the overlooked performance practices of the period and discusses them in the context of production conditions, cultural policies and the role of art in society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 277163776
The article sheds light on the problems posed by the use of the terms performance art, performance and the performing arts in Slovenian terminology. It presents them from the perspective of the historical development of performance art as an artistic genre, the development of this research field in Slovenia, and the differences between the European and US theatre (education) traditions. The special issue of the Dialogi journal, entitled Theatre, Performing Arts and Theory (Gledališče, uprizoritvene prakse in teorija) features two articles by the programme group members Barbara Orel and Blaž Lukan (Novi performans, COBISS.SI-ID 3673179).
COBISS.SI-ID: 3672923