Tomaš Žiška je scenograf i profesor na Katedri za alternativno pozorište Akademije dramskih umetnosti (DAMU) u Pragu. Saradnik i asistent Jozefa Svobode u pozorištu Laterna Magica, ucenik Eudenija Barbe, pobornik holandskog novog pozorišta, Žiška je medunarodni ugled stekao sajt -specifik (site-specific)* projektima realizovanim širom Evrope, u kojima okuplja mlade umetnike razlicitih iskustava i izraza, okrenute istraživanju fenomena pozorišta izvan konvencionalnih teatarskih dvorana. Jedan je od najistaknutijih clanova komisije za obrazovanje (EDUCOM) Medunarodne asocijacije scenografa, pozorišnih arhitekata, tehnicara i tehnologa (OISTAT).
Kao gostujuci profesor Žiška predaje arhitekturu alternativnih scenskih prostora na Katedri za scenski dizajn Multidisciplinarnih poslediplomskih studija Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu. U okviru kreativne radionice na prvoj godini studija na ovom programu meseca maja 2002, u organizaciji YUSTAT-a, Žiška je pokrenuo tri sajt - specifik projekta koji ce u Beogradu biti izvedeni u septembru 2002, u okviru IV bijenala scenskog dizajna, kao i u Pragu, juna 2003, u okviru Praškog kvadrijenala.
Prezentacija ova tri projekta na BELEF-u '02, u njihovoj radnoj verziji, ima za cilj da strucnu i širu javnost Beograda upozna sa svrhom i karakterom istarživanja koja studenti poslediplomskih studija Scenskog dizajna sprovode rokovodjeni Tomašom Žiškom. Takodje, namera je i da se ukljicivanjem naših eminentnih stvaralaca u ovoj oblasti koja je za Beograd važna, i u njemu odavno prisutna, proširi okvir istraživanja i podstakne kreativna rasprava o projektima koji su još uvek u toku.

* termin "site-specific" oznacava svaki scenski, ili šire - javni dogadjaj kreiran i izveden namenski za unapred odabran arhitektonski ili urbani prostor; u umetnickoj praksi ove vrste termin stoga može imenovati svaki "ambijentalni" dogadjaj, "ambijentalni" teatar, "ambijentalnu" umetnicku intervenciju...

YUSTAT and the University of Arts in Belgrade - The Group for Set Design
SITE-SPECIFIC WORKSHOP BY TOMAS ZISKA
multimedia presentation and discussion

Tomaš Žiška, a set designer, is a lecturer at the Department of Alternative Theatre of the Academy of Drama Arts (DAMU) in Prague. He is an associate and assistant of Jozef Svodoba in the Laterna Magica Theather as well as a disciple of Eugenio Barba and an adherent of New Dutch Theatre. Ziska made a reputation internationally for site-specific* projects carried out across Europe within which he gathered young artists with different experience and of diverse artistic expressions, focused on the researches of a theatre phenomenon out of those conventional theatre halls. He is one of the most prominent members of the Education Commision (EDUCOM), the International Association of Set Designers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT). Ziska lectures part-time architecture of alternative set locations at the Department of Multidisciplinary Set Design Postgraduate Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Within a creative workshop in the first year of these studies organized by YUSTAT in May 2002, Ziska launched three site-specific projects that will be carried out within IV Set Design Biennial in Belgrade in September 2002 as well as within the Quadrennial in Prague in June 2003.

The presentation of these three projects at BELEF '02, i.e. their study versions, aims to get acquainted the experts and the public in Belgrade with the purpose and character of the research done by the students of Set Design Postgraduate Studies under the tutorship of Tomas Ziska. It is also intended to include our eminent artists working within this art field that is traditionally present and important for and in Belgrade, in order to expand the framework of this research and induce a constructive discussion about the projects being in the progress.

* The expression "site-specific" designates every scene or, in the broadest sense, public event created or performed intetionally for an in-advance-chosen architectural or urban location; therefore, this expression can nominate every "ambient" event or "ambient" theatre or "ambient" art intervention, in this kind of artistic practice.