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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Kirila Cvetkovska (left) and Megan Hoetger (right). Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Julia Croft (left) and Yeukayishe Musariri (right). Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Antonella Fittipaldi. Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Elioa Steffen. Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
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Workshop documentation. Zone Collective (Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger), Zoning Play Complex character workshop, 5 November 2022. Realized within the frame of The Hauntologists, an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira as part of the 2021–22 Fellowship in Situated Practice at BAK — basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands. Photo: Tom Janssen, courtesy of BAK.
A Neighborhood Zoning Play is an as yet unrealised radio play based upon histories of transnational cultural production circulating in and through (post-)socialist Europe. Working towards the eventual staging of this play, the Zoning Play Complex workshop emerged as a testing ground for a cast of characters-in-the-making, all emergent from a pantheon of ‘infrastructural specters’ that haunt technologies of organization and cultural policy. In the workshop, the characters met as cultural partners gathering at a dinner party to discuss their collective vision for a new center for heritage preservation.
With the theater space loosely annotated to suggest the presence of a dinner table, a parking lot and a bar, a map of potential character relations was set up for participants to engage. In the first part of the day, they identified the contours of the eight characters being activated – their material needs, psychic desires, social relations and personal behaviors. Then, in the second part of the day, the participants enacted a process of group decision-making. Choosing from different linguistic/conceptual/political registers of (non-)alignment made available to them on the workshop menu, they track the open contradictions that emerge within and between each of the characters. Through the dramaturgies of negotiation that ensue, both the participants and the characters enter and exit zones of solidarity, navigating the unevenness of structural conditions that touch us all.
Zone Collective is a collaborative research platform established in 2016 by independent cultural practitioner Kirila Cvetkovska and historian-curator Megan Hoetger as a space to intercede into historiographic conventions for understanding cultural production in geopolitical sites marked by their grey zone ‘border status(es).’
Zoning Play Complex was conceived and realized by Zone Collective with dramaturg/theatre director Biljana Radinoska and in conversation with designer Karoline Świeżyński. The workshop was the outcome of a yearlong research stream conducted during the 2021-2022 Fellowship in Situated Practice(opens in a new tab) at BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, and was presented in the frame of The Hauntologists(opens in a new tab), an exhibition and public program curated by Julia Morandeira. Special thanks to Irene Calabuch Mirón and Thomas Orbon for their vital production support, as well as to the workshop participants: Cristina Cochior, Julia Croft, Antonella Fittipaldi, Elioa Steffen, and Yeukayishe Musariri.