IMAGINARY SCRIPT FOR ONE PLACE
28 и 29 SEptember, workshop with zhana ivanova
In her practice, Zhanna Ivanova reconfigures models and structures from everyday life that we have long grown used to and take for granted. Her projects incorporate strategies from performance art to provoke situations in which interpersonal and power dynamics are in constant flux. While the constructions in her work appear formal and governed by rules, they persistently reveal the ambiguity inherent in those very rules.
The workshop includes a series of exercises aimed at synchronizing our collective imagination and generating momentary realities. Each participant will create both textual and performative material, which will be cut, copied, and connected with the material of others. Over the course of two days, participants will actively work on building performative structures, blending stage directions with magical realism, and generating spontaneous inventions.
Zhana Ivanova was born in 1977 in Ruse, Bulgaria, and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She completed the Advanced Research in Performance program at DasArts, Amsterdam (2009), and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2013). She is currently a researcher in the THIRD program at Das Graduate School (2021–2024).
Her projects have been presented at both public and private institutions and events including: Kunsthalle Basel (Basel); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo); Pernod Ricard Foundation (Paris); ARCOmadrid (Madrid); Elevation 1049 (Gstaad); De Appel (Amsterdam); Playground Festival (Leuven); FIAC (Paris); Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo); Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Roberts Art Foundation (London); Lafayette Anticipations (Paris); Performatik Biennale (Brussels); and Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam).
Zhanna Ivanova has taught at DasTheater (Amsterdam); Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam); and the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam). Since 2018, she has been a lecturer in the Base for Experiment, Art and Research (BEAR) program at ARTEZ, Arnhem.
