BOJANA POPADIĆ, artist

Portfolio

Write me at: b.popadic1@gmail.com

Call me/write me on: +38269602505

Find me in: Montenegro, Tivat during summer, Podgorica during winter

EDUCATION
 MA in Art & Politics

Goldsmiths, University of London
2015-2016

ALUMNA
 Chevening (The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom);
Goldsmiths, University of London;
European Forum Alpbach (Austria).

NGO ŠkArt, Founder and President (30/01/2017 - present);

External monitoring expert ATA to EU Delegation to Montenegro (2018- present);
WORK EXPERIENCE
 UK alumni association in Montenegro (MAUK), Board member (2017-present);
Global Arts and Politics Alliance, Fundraising coordinator (10/2016 – 02/2018);
Initiative Group Alpbach Podgorica , Secretary General (2011– 2016).

SKILLS
 -More than 8 years of project preparation, implementation and coordination,

financial management, project proposal writing;

-Vast experience in project monitoring, financial control, control of public

procurement procedures according EU regulations, as well as control of project
documentation;
-Excellent training and mentoring skills- giving lectures and teaching gained
through holding workshops, presenting scholarship programmes to students,
training for trainers (certified trainer of trainers for Financial Management and
Financial Monitoring in IPA funded projects), providing everyday support in
project and financial management including reporting, visibility, procurement;

-Excellent organizational skills gained through implementation and production of

various projects.

LANGUAGES
 Montenegrin– mother tongue

English– excellent
Italian– very good
Spanish– basic

LINKS
 Instagram: pop__bo Youtube: Bojana Popadic

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/%C5%A0kArt-1637293109628117/
chthonicmachine.net
 CONTENT

Searching for the Self

Woyzeck
PERFORMANCES
Memorial to the civilian victims of war in former Yugoslavia
during 1991-2001

Dorsen

Kesomona

Monte Negro

Elementals

The Chtonic Machine

INSTALLATION

ODORU workshops
PROJECTS


Goodbye Balkans? Goodbye Balkans!

International Dance seminar

Other projects
Woyzeck

Filmmaking Society, May 2016

Playwright: Georg Büchner

Role: The Captain

Me orial to the i ilia i ti s of ar i for er Yugosla ia duri g -

Podgori a / / , orga ised y Foru Boš jaka Cr e Gore, Author Rifat Rastoder, Dire tor Slo oda Milato i

Sear hi g for the Self

Mother
Dorsen

for
He says: "When I'm work-
ing here, I'm suffering". The world we live in today allowed this modern way
of slavery. We, as a
pressed through her butoh performances, evolve around the body as a re-
society, but finding
human existence as well. This butoh
performance is a result of personal sensibility
world of today, capitalism, consumerism, and their products that involve
modern ways
war and war profiteering etc.

Music by Manitou (1. Demon Killer, 2. Vukovo Brdo).

Photo: ZOAN Photography

Perfor a es

• I ter atio al festi al of alter ati e theatre Korifej, Kolaši , Mo te egro, August

• Art a d ulture festi al Špa jola, Her eg No i, Mo te egro, August

Kesomona

This performance is part of the campaign

aimed at raising awareness of people in

Montenegro is very green country with a

mal, there is no respect for the environ-

ment, and legal measures in this regard are

bags.

Author, costume maker and performer:

Bojana Popadic

Photo: Ljubomir Popadic

 Butoh performance "Monte Negro"

Butoh or The dance of the darkness is

a dance that emerged as an under-
ground movement in post-war Japan,
resisting the Westernization of the
country, and turning to nature and
Japanese traditional arts. In great part
it was influenced by the consequenc-
es of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the
life in Japan. With a strong political,
sociological and cross-cultural signifi-
cance that it carries within and grasps
motivation from, butoh deals with
notions like earth, spirits, darkness,
death and life, rebirth, fears, and
most significantly -metamorphosis. It
is inspired by images, motifs, ideas,
concepts, and situations, so the metaphysics of butoh can only be defined as the becoming. It requires honesty with, and exami-
nation of the self. Through that process, artists face their dark soul, their suppressed and hidden emotions and feelings, only to
end up in disintegration and deconstruction. It was developed in many directions - a "lighter" butoh that is following lighter
movements and play, a more "heavier" butoh that explores the darker side of the human mind, etc. This performance deals
with the position of a human in the socio-political environment in which the artist resides.

Photo: Marko Ilic.

Performances:

 Artist pavilion Podgorica, organized by the UK alumni association of

Montenegro (MAUK), as part of the second Forum "Innovation Reshaping
Montenegro", November 2017

 Cultural center Nikola Djurkovic Kotor, opening of the exhibition

“Atomic bomb– Hiroshima and Nagasaki” organized by the Japanese Hiro-
shima Peace Memorial Museum, November 2017
 The multimedia art project titled Elementals is a
collaboration of three artists- a sculptor Nikola Radonjic, a
composer Slobodanka Bobana Dabovic Djuric, and a butoh
dance performance artist Bojana Popadic, all from
Montenegro, former Yugoslavia. It is based on the research
of the studies created by antic Greek philosophers Plato and
Empedocles, as well as the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.
The exhibition consists of 5 installations of the Platonic
solids that are in fact regular, convex polyhedron:
tetrahedron (or pyramid), hexahedron (cube), octahedron,
dodecahedron, and icosahedron, that all represent the basic
elements fire, earth, water, air and Universe. Each of the
solid is accompanied with a musical composition
representing each of the elements. Under the fifth element-
dodecahedron related to the Universe- a butoh dance
performance is occurring, representing the creation, the way
it was described by Plato (Demiurge, the Creator of the Universe has brought order into chaos). The
living material is presented through a performance- the naissance of life in a symbolic egg (as the
Universe itself is constructed as an egg, according to Plato), the birthing, breathing, awakening, and
in the end the sorrow for the mortality. The mankind is aware that they possess the mortal soul as
they are constantly challenged by the passions (sadness, sorrow, pain, evil, cravings, hope, erotic
intentions, desire etc). Only the mind can create an order so that the man can aspire to the Beauty
and the Good in order to overcome these passions. However, the mankind cannot liberate
themselves from the mortality and are always aware of their unfortunate existence. That is why the
performance is portraying the struggle of the humankind of the two souls and domination of the
mortal one.
Chthonic Machine

Intellectual, material skill, to destabilize our own stories, to retell them with

other stories […]

of thinking.’ (Haraway 2014)

one of the
ies of
le
in East London.

Material: wood and metal

ODORU workshops

Creative– educative– recreational workshops through movement and dance, based on butoh dance

The aim of the workshops is to help participants to:

 Leave the comfort zone, strengthen self-esteem, be more conscious of their body and mind, gain or strengthen self-respect
 Improve control over body movement and coordination
 Improve body posture, body language and strengthen muscles
 Improve breathing
 Develop and enhance creative and cognitive skills
and imagination (especially children)
 Enhance perception and sensibility
 Be able to recognize talents and skills at the early
stage
 Become more educated in art and music
 Be more relaxed and rest from electronic devices
and fast way of living
 Re-gain the contact with the nature

Workshops are held in Montenegro since June 2017.

GOODBYE BALKANS? GOODBYE, BALKANS! is a project aimed at raising political
awareness about important democratic issues in the Region. Art competition resulted in a two-week
exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro with awarding the best art works. The
contest is part of the project “Strengthening Western Balkans Regional Chevening Network by
tackling common regional democratic challenges”, implemented by UK Alumni Association of
Montenegro (MAUK) and financed by the British Embassy Podgorica under the Chevening Alumni
Programme Fund (CAPF).
International Dance Seminar in Tivat is being organized since 2018 by Ngo ŠkArt from Tivat,
Cultural center Tivat and Bitef dance company Belgrade. It aims to provide opportunities for young
and talented dancers from the Balkan region and wider to learn and practice classical ballet,
contemporary dance and hip hop with some of the most eminent dance instructors from the
contemporary dance scene. It is organized within the Dance Festival during the summer.
Other projects

Goodbye Balkans? Goodbye, Balkans! art exhibition for the Western Balkans artists, co-curator and producer, August– No-
vember 2018

International dance seminar Tivat, Centre for culture Tivat, Bitef dance company Belgrade and NGO ŠkArt Tivat, co-
producer, Tivat, Montenegro, since August 2018

CIRCLE– women in doc accelerator lab, training program for women authors and producers in the field of documentary
filmmaking, assistant producer, Podgorica, Montenegro, June 2018

Poetry on a bicycle, public performance for the World mobility day, producer and perfomer, Tivat, Montenegro, September
2018

Together we can do everything, project coordinator/ 3D modelling and 3D printing of the assistive technology for the Asso-
ciation of Youth with disabilities of Montenegro, and organization of training for 3D modelling of personal assistive technol-
ogy/ June– November 2017

Campaign against using plastic bags in Montenegro, author and project coordinator, on going

Cleaning of the park and beach in Montenegro, project coordinator, May 2017

Adventure of Little Bole, author of the interactive book and workshops holder, London, December 2015

My Europe Film Festival, curator and producer, Podgorica, May 2015

Youth Summit: 100 for the next 100, co-organizer, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 2014

EFA Network SEE Regional Conference Western Balkans 2013-2020: Political, Economic and Security Challenges, organizer,
Montenegro, March 2013

Balkan Networking– Youth Networking, workshops, organizer, June 2012

The challenges of sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas in Montenegro, moderator, Podgorica, Montene-
gro, January 2012

Campaigns Youth for youth, World Health Day, Humanitarian Bazar, co-organizer and animator, Tivat, Montenegro, 2011-
2012

How much is the exam?, publication on corruption in the higher education of Centre for Citizens Education, co-author,
Montenegro, 2011

Reagan’s politics of Cold war and Gorbachev politics of New thinking, publication for Historical memoirs in Montenegro,
author, 2008

Author of articles published for the blog Blogofanzin, Montenegro

Author of articles published for the student portal Tragom.me, Montenegro