Montažstroj

Montažstroj (stylized MONTAЖ$TROJ) is an art collective which creates socially engaged projects and points out the burning problems of our reality through innovative interventions in theatre, dance, music, visual and audio-visual arts.

Montažstroj, Croatian neologism, a compound of the word „montage“ meaning fusion, film and video editing, as well as working on the assembly line, and the word „machine“, in the sense of futuristic ideal from the beginning of the 20th century, applied to all types of art but also in the sense of order and discipline.

Since its formation in 1989 this Croatian collective is creating art which is responsible for the community in which it is formed. Montažstroj immediately received international recognition, awards and became a successful company of dance and physical theatre. The founder and artistic director of Montažstroj, Borut Šeparović, led this organization to becoming a trademark of a theatre different than any other in Croatia and abroad. Over 25 years this collective performed in more than 20 European countries and also in United States of America. Their artistic expression is constructed through interdisciplinary interventions in music, film, visual, video and digital arts. Montažstroj’s work was supported by the leading global media such as Reuters, CNN, MTV, France Press and Al Jazeera.

The initial 7 years Montažstroj’s work was concentrated on the theatrical representation of the football and pop culture. In those years the collective produced several performances, installations, award-winning videos and choreographic works. The experience of real socialism, the historical changes occurring in post-communism and the war in former Yugoslavia, influenced and defined Montažstroj’s unique artistic actions. The material for performance was found in everyday events and often led to the radical stage reality. After the first professional productions'VATROTEHNA', performed in 1990 in an abandoned area of the old distillery Badel and 'RAP OPERA 101', adaptations of antic myths in the context of global satellite programs and local war surrounding, Montažstroj came into worldview in 1991, with their music video 'CROATIA IN FLAME' - a direct artistic engagement in the service of homeland. Artistic actions continued with interpretations of post‐communist transitional myths and Montažstroj was labeled as the theater of transition.

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