Jasna Žmak: The artist is institutionalised
In this workshop, we will therefore ask ourselves how are our lives shaped by the institutions we are part of. We will approach the artist not only as a creator of artworks, but also as a living archive - a person whose memories, experiences, ambitions, contradictions, and positions within the cultural field carry both personal and social meaning and can become sources of dramaturgical reflection. Together we will explore how personal histories, relationships, influences, and encounters can become artistic material.
Working on the intersection of documentary theater and autofiction, we will investigate how are the narratives through which we understand ourselves as artists created, not in an attempt to reach a final truth, but as a way of questioning, re-framing, and re-imagining the stories we tell about ourselves.
180 minutes with break
Ceiling of a small hall
English
Jasna Jasna Žmak works as dramaturg, writer, researcher and counselling therapist. She is associate professor at the dramaturgy department at the Academy of Dramatic Art of the University of Zagreb where she has previously graduated. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in Zagreb. She is author of several books, film scripts, critical texts and short stories. As dramaturg, she has collaborated on several performance and film projects. As a psychodramatic therapist and sexual therapy trainee, she provides individual and group therapy and organises different psychodramatic workshops. She has organised and/or mentored several workshops about writing, dramaturgy and/or feminism. She is member of SPID (Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild) and of HKTP-a (Hrvatske komore psihoterapeuta).
