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PROGRAM STRUCTURE

 

The residency unfolds through three consecutive stages. Each stage has a distinct function: establishing a shared artistic and methodological context; developing projects through sustained experimentation, critique, and pre-production; and bringing the resulting work into public presentation at the festival.

 

Stage I. | October 2026

2 online seminars

 

Stage I establishes the artistic and methodological foundations of the cohort. Individual participants and ensembles introduce their practices, selected previous work, current projects, and principal questions. These presentations make visible the disciplinary assumptions, compositional vocabularies, production conditions, and collaborative structures informing each proposal.

 

Participants present projects, scores, scripts, concepts, prototypes, or works in progress. Directors, dramaturgs, and designers may introduce staging systems, spatial propositions, visual materials, interfaces, or production questions. Discussion addresses project scope, relations between concept and material, methods, and conditions required for further development.

 

Stage I includes:

– 2 online seminars

– Presentation of participants’ artistic, dramaturgical, technical, and collaborative practices

– Introduction of selected previous works and current projects

– Presentation of scores, scripts, prototypes, concepts, and works in progress

– Discussion of methods, materials, contexts, production conditions, and intended publics

– Identification of compositional, performative, spatial, technological, institutional, and ethical questions

– Initial development plan for each participating project

– Introduction to CLAUSULA, META, and X as fields of artistic inquiry

– Q&A

 

Stage I does not seek premature consensus or finalized projects. Its purpose is to establish a precise basis for development: what each project proposes, which materials and relations it requires, which assumptions it carries, and how collective scrutiny may transform it.

 

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Stage II. | January 2027

2 online seminars

 

Stage II concentrates on collaborative development, dramaturgical analysis, practice-led experimentation, and pre-production. Revised scores, scripts, structures, staging concepts, scenographic materials, technical systems, and methodological reflections are circulated where appropriate and examined in detail.

 

Participants test the relations among sound, performance, text, movement, space, image, objects, and technology. Discussion may address temporality, notation, embodiment, narrative, vocality, choreography, spatial organization, media relations, interfaces, audience configuration, technical feasibility, production ethics, and the correspondence or tension between conceptual premises and perceptible effects.

 

Peer and mentor feedback should be analytic and materially specific: identifying compelling operations, locating unresolved relations, distinguishing productive indeterminacy from structural vagueness, and proposing actionable experiments. Participants retain responsibility for their positions while remaining responsive to collaborators, counterproposals, material resistance, and practical conditions.

 

Stage II includes:

– 2 online seminars

– Collaborative development, dramaturgical analysis, practice-led experimentation, and pre-production

– Presentation and discussion of developed scores, scripts, prototypes, and project materials

– Collective analysis of sound, action, text, image, objects, space, and technology

– Evaluation of methods, structures, media relations, production requirements, and dramaturgical coherence

– Artistic, performative, technical, scenographic, and dramaturgical feedback

– Reflection on the public, institutional, and ethical implications of each project

– Identification of questions requiring further testing, clarification, or revision

– Development of performance, installation, laboratory, or lecture-performance formats

– Preparation for the on-site residency and festival presentations

– Q&A

 

By the conclusion of Stage II, each project should possess a clearly articulated proposition, an appropriate method, a coherent relation among its principal materials, and a feasible format for on-site development and public presentation. Completion is not required; readiness for concentrated experimentation is essential.

 

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Stage III. | June 2027

On-site residency at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia

 

The final stage brings participants’ work into the spatial, technical, institutional, and public environment of the festival. Performances and staged works may be complemented by installations, lecture-performances, laboratories, and research presentations, according to the artistic premises and production requirements of each project.

 

The on-site phase is not the execution of decisions fixed in advance. Inquiry continues through rehearsal, testing, adaptation, and public articulation. Structures may change when embodied, spatialized, amplified, illuminated, or encountered by an audience; technical systems and production contingencies may disclose unforeseen dramaturgical consequences.

 

Rehearsal, listening, observation, documentation, and discussion remain methods of inquiry. Participants contribute as makers, performers, observers, respondents, and interlocutors. Public presentation becomes a point of concentration within an extended process rather than proof of definitive completion.

 

Stage III includes:

– On-site residency at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week

– Performances, staged works, installations, and public experiments

– Lecture-performances, laboratories, and research presentations

– Rehearsals supporting compositional, performative, scenographic, and dramaturgical development

– Exchange among makers, performers, directors, dramaturgs, designers, technologists, and audiences

– Engagement with festival spaces, technical systems, programs, and institutional contexts

– Artistic, methodological, dramaturgical, and production reflection

– Further development of participating projects through rehearsal and public response

 

Professional documentation of selected processes and presentations

The format, scale, technical realization, and degree of completion of each presentation will be determined by the project’s artistic requirements and by the concrete production conditions of the festival.