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MASKA Volume 35, Number 200 is out now!

Intellect is delighted to announce the 100th anniversary and 200th issue of Maska, the Performing Arts Journal, first published in 1920.

The front cover of the anniversary issue focuses on the meaning of the journal’s title, ‘maska’, a mask, illustrating the parallels between the year of the inaugural issue, 1920 – just after the great flu pandemic – and 2020, the year of the 100th issue. The cover features a computer-generated composite image created from photographs in Maska’s archive to link the journal’s past with its present. In 2020, the act of wearing, or not wearing, a mask has gained a new significance, and thus the strange masked Frankenstein figure on the front cover is now equipped with a surgical mask.

Not only life, but art is threatened by the pandemic; these anniversary issues reflect on the precarity of the arts, the performing arts in particular. Already under threat in many countries even before the current pandemic, the performing arts are now fighting for their survival as performance spaces around the world have been forced to close, masked from view for the foreseeable future.

Maska, as one of the last remaining hybrid spaces between theory and artistic practice, is all the more important and its existence all the more political. Maska speaks to the generations who grew up in the precarious conditions of neoliberalism, examining the potential regeneration of the field of art, power relations and the possible ways of overcoming the status quo. Its constant concern is creating opportunities for critical and theoretical writing and will continue to search out innovative and daring writers, researchers and theoreticians. This year, Maska pays tribute to contemporary generators of thought and reflection in former Yugoslavia who had to leave their environment in order to assert themselves fully.

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Volume 35, Number 200

9 RADHARANI PERNARČIČ

That is the »Definition of Love«

13 BLAŽ LUKAN

Birds Without Vertigo

17 DRAGANA ALFIREVIĆ

What do We do in Our Bedroom is Directly Translatable into Public Realm

Interview with Mette Ingvartsen

24 (I-XVI) EVA NINA LAMPIČ:

Score 1 : Abonma, Score 2: Commenting Performances

31 ALEŠ MENDIŽEVEC