Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Karkatag Collective

01 Name of author/applicant:

Karkatag Collective

02 Role/category:

Total performance design

03 Project title:

The Machine

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

The Machine is an interactive installation where much of the content viewers produce by themselves guided by the programmed instructions they receive on the ticket machines incorporated on the stage, along with eleven large machines and installations that simulate the working process. The Machine is trying to encourage the audience to take responsibility for the experience they will receive, as well as encourage their search for satisfaction that comes from the experience of physical work, solidarity and collective authorship.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Recipients of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Barbican Centre, London, the United Kingdom, 2016; concept, direction and dramaturgy: Collectif and then… – Francesca Hyde, Lucie N’Duhirahe and Karkatag Collective – Aleksandar Popović, Ana Dimitrijević, Marko Dimitrijević; performance: Lucie N’Duhirahe, Francesca Hyde and Natalie Reckert; interactive stage design: Karkatag Collective; dramaturgy support: William Drew; project mentor: Tassos Stevens; light design: Claire Terrien; sound design: Liam Quinn; stage manager: Beatrice Galloway; photography: Milica Mitrović; production and project management: Clare Fitzsimons; co-production: Zoe Munn; programming and co-production: “Barbican”; support: Arts Council England

06 Photography:

Milica Mitrović

07 Biography (not exceeding 100 words):

Karkatag, is a Belgrade-based art collective, founded in 2009. Producing specific machines , the collective works in the field of interactive art and new media, on the borderline with performative. Being exhibited and set up for use, these machines provoke the audience to become an active partaker, performer, while the event generated through their operation and use represents an inseparable and essential part of the very project. Karkatag has so far participated and won awards at numerous exhibitions, festivals, performances across Europe, including the Prague Quadrennial in 2015, in the award-winning national exhibition of Serbia. Since 2015, Karkatag has been actively participating in the work of the independent Cultural Centre “Magacin”, in Kraljevića Marka Street, where it started the project entitled Praksa Makerspace Belgrade.