Boris Bakal Explained
| Boris Bakal |
| Birth Date: | 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Zagreb, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
| Field: | Theatre, film, writing |
| Awards: | ArtsLink Fellow, Bitef Festival Special jury awards, Pula Theatre Festival awards |
Boris Bakal (born September 18, 1959 in Zagreb) is a theatre/film director and actor.
Biography
Boris Bakal was born in Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now the Republic of Croatia)[1]
He was a visiting scholar/lecturer and researcher at New York University (1998), Stony Brook University (1999), Studio Art Centres International (Florence, 2000), and Columbia University (New York, 2003), Leiden University (2008), Kent University (Canterbury, 2013), DAMU (Prague, 2014) and others.
He was an artistic director and curator of the multidisciplinary urban festival "Hunting Season" (Stagione di Caccia) in Bologna, (Italy), from 1999 to 2001,[2] [3] and co-director and co-curator of Migrative Art Festival (within the Flying University Project),[4] [5] Louvain la Nuove (Belgium), 1993–1995 and Tunel Festival, Zagreb (Croatia) in 1995.
He is also a co-founder and co-author of the projects of Bacači Sjenki/Shadow Casters (since 2001). Bakal is signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[6]
Bibliography (selection)
- Sandra Uskokovic - "Choreographing architecture" - City, journal of analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Volume 21, 2017 - Issue 6, Print Online, Routledge - Taylor&Francis Group, UK, 2017,[7]
- Boris Bakal/Sandra Uskokovic – "Urban Hum: Memory Theater of the City" – Journal of Urban Cultural Research vol. 11, Osaka City University & Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok/Osaka, 2015 [8]
- Boris Bakal – "The Legend of the Boat" – Oris magazine for architecture no. 91, Oris House for Architecture, Zagreb, 2015 [9]
- Duška Radosavljević – Theatre Making – Palgrave Macmillan, 2013[10]
- Duška Radosavljević – The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers – Rutlege, 2012 [11]
- Boris Bakal – "Fragments about the Space" – Kolo no. 4, Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 2007[12]
- Boris Bakal – "The Naked and the Dead/Goli i mrtvi", Zarez 210, 2007[13]
- Boris Bakal – "Recognizing networks", a chapter in the book: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert/Relations – Leap into the City: Chişinău, Sofia, Pristina, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana – 7 scenes from Europe – DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne, 2006 [14]
- Katarina Pejović – "The Portret of Multimedia Artist", Up&Underground, 2006[15]
Notes and References
- http://www.d-a-z.hr/hr/vijesti/boris-bakal-neka-prostor-govori-umjesto-mene,1745.html Interview with Boris Bakal in architect review "Man and Space"
- http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/molteplicitta/molteplicitta.pl?cod=3 Review of the 1999 edition of the festival "Hunting Season"
- http://www.undo.net/it/evento/6942 Review of the 2001 edition of the festival "Hunting Season"
- https://www.veto.be/files/2022/10/31/veto2015.pdf About Flying University Project in magazine Veto (1994)
- https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/view/18860395/vogelzang-gekelderd-archief-van-veto/3 About the Festival in magazine Veto (1993)
- Web site: Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku. 2024-06-21. Jezici i nacionalizmi.
- https://rsa.tandfonline.com/eprint/3gqi9ieewxaSZnZGQ3TS/full The essey by Sandra Uskokovic about Boris Bakal urban and community restoration project "Vitic Dances"
- http://www.cujucr.com/downloads/Individual%20Articles/11/vol11%20Sandra%20Uskokovic%20&%20Boris%20Bakal.pdf The essey by Boris Bakal and Sandra Uskokovic about urban artistic projects
- http://oris.hr/en/oris-magazine/overview-of-articles/the-legend-of-the-boat,3366.html The essey by Boris Bakal about architect Ivan Vitić
- http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/book-review-theatre-making-duska-radosavljevic/ Dan Hutton's review on book "Theatre Making"
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415535304/ Presentation of the book "The Contemporary Ensemble"
- http://www.matica.hr/kolo/305/Fragmenti%20o%20prostoru/ The essey by Boris Bakal about space
- http://www.zarez.hr/clanci/goli-i-mrtvi The essey by Boris Bakal about value of performing arts
- http://www.projekt-relations.de/en/explore/sprung_in_die_stadt/ Presentation of the book "Leap into the City"
- http://www.up-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/0708_boris_bakal.pdf Review of Boris Bakal work from 1985 to 2006 in art magazine
