Mavena

NGO Mavena was established in 2006. in Split with an aim of upgrading, encouraging and promoting cultural and artistic activities in the town of Split, Croatia and Europe, with the special emphasis in contemporary artistic production of young authors and intercultural cooperation. The name Mavena-36 njezinih čuda was picked because it was a working title of a surrealistic poem by Croatian poet Radovan Ivšić that compares with “surrealistic” aspirations of Mavena members to creatively disturb contemporary artistic scene in Croatia and provoke and encourage others, especially young people, for deliberation, action and participation in artistic and cultural developments. Regarding our knowledge and skills, education, aims and wishes, our main activities are:

Gathering of young artists and helping them produce and present their artistic works;
Preparing, producing and staging contemporary art projects: theatre plays, performances, installations, interventions, exhibitions, new media art such as videos, animations, environment art, internet art, multimedia projects ect.;
Encouragement and promotion of intercultural cooperation between members of Mavena and other contemporary artists from Croatia and Europe in order to communicate, interact and exchange knowledge and experiences;
Support of trans-national mobility of people working in the cultural sector, encouragement of trans-national circulation of artistic and cultural works and products by organizing tours in Croatia nad abroad;
Education about contemporary and new media art (workshops, artist colonies, publishing of professional articles, magazines and books).

The reason for establishing Mavena organization in 2006. was growing number of cultural and art projects and colaborations with other public and private institutions and organizations, that needed an organizational capacity and administration support.

Članovi udruge Mavena / members

Danijela Mandušić / Natasha Kadin (1979. Split) kulturna menadžerica, novinarka, prof. hrvatskog jezika i književnosti, autor projekata i izvođač. Završila MA iz kulturnog managementa i kulturne politike na Univerzitetu umjetnosti u Beogradu 2008. sa magistarskim radom „Management novomedijskih umjetnosti“, UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2, Faculté d'Anthropologie et de Sociologiete, te Hrvatski jezik i književnost na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zadru 2005. sa diplomskim radom „Intertekstualnost u romanu Kiklop Ranka Marinkovića“. Glavni je producent projekata udruge Mavena kao i projekata suradnje s drugim umjetnicima (2008.-2009. francusko-grčki Teatar Vasistas). Izdala knjigu "Living in the Interface" (VDM Verlag, 2009. na engleskom jeziku) o menadžmentu novih medija. Kao koautor i izvođač sudjelovala je u multimedijalnim predstavama SURLAmour 2008., L'amour fou 2007., a 2006. osmislila je, režirala, producirala te napravila dramaturgiju za multimedijalnu interaktivnu predstavu Rukopisi ne gore! prema motivima iz romana Majstor i Margarita M.A. Bulgakova. 2003-5 sudjelovala je u organizaciji i produkciji Zadra snova- internacionalnog festivala novog teatra, aktivno se bavila i street artom te osnovala street art skupinu Dežgracija, a ona je i suosnivač te predsjednik udruge Mavena- 36 njezinih čuda.

Danijela Mandušić / Natasha Kadin (1979. Split) culture and media manager, journalist, professor of Croatian language and literature, project author and performer. Finished MA in cultural management and cultural policy on the University of Arts in Belgrade, with Master thesis „New Media Art management“, UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2, Faculté d'Anthropologie et de Sociologie, and BA in Croatian Language and literature on University of Zadar. Works as the main producer of the NGO Mavena, as well as producer of collaborating project with other art organizations (2008.-2009. French/Greek Theatre Vasistas). Published a book "Living in the Interface" (VDM Verlang, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/LIVING-INTERFACE-New-media-management) about new media art developments and managment conceps. As co/author and performer participated in new media plays SURLAmour 2008., L'amour fou 2007., and in 2006. directed, did dramatization and costumes for multimedia interactive play Masterpiece can-t burn! based onnovel Master & Margarite by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Also worked in organisation and production of international theatre festival Zadarsnova, doing street art and founded street art group Dežgracija. She is co-founder and president of NGO Mavena.