Emil Hrvatin

Emil Hrvatin is author and director of interdisciplinary performances such as “Miss Mobile“ and “We Are All Marlene Dietrich FOR – Performance for soldiers in peace-keeping missions“ (together with Erna Ómarsdóttir). His book on Jan Fabre (“Jan Fabre – La Discipline du chaos, le chaos de la discipline,“ Armand Colin, Paris 1994) was published in Dutch, Italian and Slovene. He is director of Maska, an institute for publishing, production and education, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

He currently works on the reconstruction of a 1969 piece “Pupilija, Papa Pupilo and the Pupilceks.“

What do you teach? I am not a regular workshoper. I have nothing to teach. I can only organize transfer and exchange of knowledge situation. Workshop is the situation in which different modes of knowledge exchange are rehearsed. Coaching is, for example, a situation in which it is a visiting coacher who has to learn about the artists‘ work, their approaches and concepts as well as context they deal with. Coacher is actually a wonderer and not subject supposed to know. Studio is an artistic headquarters where different specialists debate, rehearse, negotiate and practice strategies and tactics of artistic ...