Raise Your Voice Participant Marija Mitić: Tryout Workshop at BlaBlaLab

  • Workshop | Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Text? 

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    Raise Your Voice Participant Marija Mitić | Tryout session at BlaBlaLab

    This project is a tryout session as a part of the Raise Your Voice 2025 Programme. From these tryout sessions, there will be selected fellowships continuing on into 2026 depending on the success and quality of the tryouts.


    “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Text?” is a workshop aimed at anyone who ever looked at a curatorial text or artistic statement (be it as author or as audience) and went, “Huh?” but chose not to question it because they got the gist well enough and who even has time for that?

    What is up with theory in cultural spaces? Compound-isms and hyphen-isms overwhelm curatorial and artist statements, trying to say as much as possible but often not saying much at all. It feels like we’re all coasting by based on vibes: “I don’t know what exactly this means, but I understand the gist—the vibe, so I’m not gonna worry about it.” This approach is fine on occasion but we’re getting to the point where the blind seem to be leading the blind. Nobody wins, not the audience, not the institutions, and certainly not the creators. When did interpretation turn into obfuscation?

    Bring your favorite or most loathed (over)used terms and phrases, the texts that use them and the texts that birthed them (if you know them). During the workshop we'll be dismantling these texts for parts, and trying out different Frankensteinian configurations in an attempt to make sense of them.

    About the artist, participant of the Raise Your Voice program
    Marija Mitić is still recovering from making it out of Design Academy Eindhoven in one piece. A graphic designer by vocation, writer, editor, moderator and nebulous jack of cultural trades, she’s trying to find a foothold in the Dutch cultural sector with the frantic desperation of every non-EU person on an artist visa. Most of all she’s a first-class yapper.

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