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Keeping the Promise of Community. Communal Efforts on the Contemporary Zagreb Non-Institutional Scene

In their 1979 manifesto independent experimental theatre collective Kugla glumište (Zagreb, 1975-1985) claims: „Kugla discovers images, symbols and stories that wish to be the promise of community“. The article explores the repercussions of those neo-avantgarde community efforts on contemporary Zagreb non-institutional scene by providing the analysis of four inclusive performances which differ in motives, aesthetic aims, production levels and participatory modes. In The Love Case of Fahrija P (2017) ex-members of Kugla and additional co-authors stage a polylogue with the artistic heritage of the deceased Kugla glumište member Željko Zorica Šiš (1957-2013) and inclusive procedures they devised during the 1970s. Community project 55+ (2012) by production platform Montažstroj gathers the participants who are over 55 in workshops, public debates, celebrations, protests and a documentary in order to provide visibility and voice to that neglected generation. In the trilogy On Community (2010-2011) production platform Shadow Casters tests different mechanisms of creating temporary aesthetic communities, from learning an a cappella group song to sharing secrets, on its recipients. Finally, atmospheric inclusion of the subtly associative performance Conversing (2019) by Fourhanded offers almost elitist opportunity of co-existing in the intimate world of private tensions. However, what they all have in common is a physically non-invasive form, emotional and/or intellectual engagement as well as an emphasized personal commitment which can oblige the audiences to reciprocate while they join the community of experience.

Zagreb non-institutional theatre 2010s ; community of participants ; On Community ; 55+ ; The Love Case of Fahrija P ; Conversing

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