Rok Vevar

Photo: Dejan Habicht / Archive: Museum of Modern Art, 2018
Occupation Dramaturgy, Critique
Art fields Dance
Born 1973, Ravne na Ravnah na Koroškem, Slovenija, ex-Yugoslavia
City and country of residence Ljubljana, Slovenia
Other links ZSPA

Biography

Rok Vevar has dedicated most of his efforts in recent years to creating a historical overview of contemporary dance in Slovenia. In 2012 he opened his flat to the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive in order to ensure that the Slovenian contemporary dance scene, students, researchers and the interested public had access to the historical materials on Slovenian and foreign contemporary dance practices, and to fill the void in the institutional structure available to this field in Slovenia. In April 2018, the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive moved to MSUM, where it took on a new life as an installation in time. Rok Vevar’s involvement with contemporary dance extends to his work as a dramaturg, co-curator of CoFestival, international contemporary dance festival, a participant in regional and local programmes of Nomad Dance Academy and a (occasional) lecturer on the history, dramaturgy and analysis of contemporary dance and theatre. So far, he has taken the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive to Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival in Murska Sobota, in 2015 with Nomad Dance Academy’s Dance Advocates to the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia (Bulgaria), and before that, in March 2014, to the symposium Document & Performance: Artistic Modes of Historicization in Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, Cambridge (MA), USA, and in 2013 to Booksa bookstore/reading club in Zagreb. In the latter he hosted, in 2015, members of the international theatre and dance platform EEPAP, second cycle dramaturgy students from AGRFT – Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, and in 2014 MA programme choreography and performance students at ATW – Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen.

Umetniška dela

Subtitle Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context
Type International exhibition
Date 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 03:11

Subtitle Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc
Type Documentary photography, Portrait photograpy, Contemporary photography, Street photography, Retrospective
Date 19 February 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 67:49

Subtitle Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc
Type Documentary photography, Portrait photograpy, Contemporary photography, Street photography, Retrospective
Date 17 February 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 35:30

Subtitle Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc
Type Documentary photography, Portrait photograpy, Contemporary photography, Street photography, Retrospective
Date 17 February 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 26:17

Subtitle Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc
Type Documentary photography, Portrait photograpy, Contemporary photography, Street photography, Retrospective
Date 19 February 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 28:13

Subtitle Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc
Type Documentary photography, Portrait photograpy, Contemporary photography, Contemporary dance
Date 22 February 2021
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 05:07

Type Guided tour, Contemporary dance, Festival exhibition
Date 8 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana

Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at the same time, in reference to and developing from; while individual entries will form[]

Type Guided tour, Contemporary dance, Festival exhibition
Date 6 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana

Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at the same time, in reference to and developing from; while individual entries will form[]

Subtitle Physical Manifestations: The Body as an Archive
Type Artist talk, Public interview, Guided tour, Choreography as extended practice, Participatory coreography, Contemporary dance
Date 9 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana
Format 1920x1080
Duration 32:10

Choreographic statements are part of the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive’s exhibition programme hosted by +MSUM's Draught Series. Documentation and archiving process present such kind of use of time in dance[]