Director: Vlatko Ilić
Author of the text, visual identity and costume design: Vojislav Klačar

Casting:
Ana Sofrenović, Igor Filipović, Slobodan Ćustić, Marija Opsenica,
Miloš Vlalukin, Miloš Timotijević, Tamara Krcunović, Nikola Vujović,
Branka Sekulović, Mile Stanković, Tanja Kecman, Ivan Zekić, Dragana Milošević,
Radan Vilotić, Snežana Milojević, Petar Mihailović, Vladislav Mihailović,
Vladislava Đorđević, Miloš Jelisavac, Bane Jevtić

Parliamentary History of Koreta results from many-year practice of the visual artist Vojislav Klačar. Koreta is a fictitious country with its own parliamentary history, regional organization, parties and coalitions, their programmes, members and specific issues and problems that are solved by means of elaborated and complex mechanisms of decision making. The base of the work is performance of parliamentary elections. Up to now Koreta has passed through nine election cycles. During the first seven election cycles Koreta is a republic, while after the eighth parliamentary elections Koreta becomes a kingdom with a ruling queen.

Performance of the Parliamentary History of Koreta is a segment of cooperation between Vojislav Klačar and Vlatko Ilić, established on the project Forming of the IX Government of the Kingdom of Koreta, Assembly of the City of Belgrade, June 2007. The authors perform their cooperation as a model of interdisciplinary practice developed by two artists from other basic disciplines, which as such constantly oscillates between different media, e.g. theatre, sculpture, performance and video art etc., with a view to open the space for artistic activities that sets its own parameters. Conceived as a long-term cooperation, this model of work and thinking about art also brings the potential of change of the local scene, with the aim to develop the critical opinion of the process of transformation of society and culture, in the first place by re-articulating the status of the audience/spectator (instead of passive recipients it is insisted on the position of a constitutive other). The audience is a participant (accomplice).

The set of the Parliamentary History of Koreta is reconsidering the place and the very act of constructing of meaningful super-orders (from history to traditionally established art theory) by insisting on fragmentarity and material quality of the event itself. The number and corporeity of the audience, positions it will take, will make possible for everyone to hear different/differently parts of the text, thus achieving unique experience, while simultaneously having an impact on the experience of others (by their presence/corporeity everyone has an impact on the text and view accessible/made possible for others or not). The act of going through the set, the impossible historical vacuum, is an attempt of the audience to re-territorialize its own social space.

Vojislav Klačar

Born in 1977, in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Belgrade.

In 2006 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, in the class of Professor Mrđan Bajić. In the same year he won the Award for special creative innovation of the Fund "Miloš Bajić". He is attending postgraduate studies of painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts. A member of the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS).

Interdisciplinary projects: Forming of the IX Government of the Kingdom of Koreta, directed by Vlatko Ilić, Assembly of the City of Belgrade, 2007.

Exhibitions (selection): Hybrid Imaginary: painting and/or screen, Museum of Contemporary Visual Arts, Novi Sad, 2006; 47th October Salon, Art, Life and Confusion, Belgrade, 2006; individual exhibition in cooperation with Cesid IX Parliamentary Elections in the Kingdom of Koreta, Youth Centre of Belgrade, 2005; individual exhibition of sculpture, Gallery "Old Town", Kotor, 2002.

Presentations of the work Kingdom of Koreta: Upgrade! Belgrade, O3ONE, Belgrade, 2007; Speak Up, NIFKA, Helsinki, Finland, 2005; web project FLU_id IV, the project for support and promotion of intermedia artistic practices, Youth Centre of Belgrade, 2004.

Author and publisher of the publication: Forming of the IX Government of the Kingdom of Koreta, Belgrade 2007.
Lecturer at invitation at the Belgrade Open School (BOŠ) for the module "Games as the Foundation of Culture", facilitator: Prof. Dr. Ratko Božović (15 December 2006). From 2004 to 2006 a Student Vice-Chancellor at the Art University of Belgrade.

Vlatko Ilić

Born in 1981, in Belgrade.

In 2006 graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts, Department of Theatre and Radio Directing. At the same Faculty works as an associate in teaching the theatre directing. A student at the postgraduate doctoral studies on the Theory of Art and Media, University of Arts of Belgrade.

Directing (selection): Forming of the IX Government of the Kingdom of Koreta, Vojislav Klačar, Assembly of the City of Belgrade, 2007; It’s Only the End of the World, Jean Luc Lagarce, the Little Theatre "Duško Radović", 2006;

Festivals: 52. Sterija Festival, selection the National Drama and Theatre (Special award for directing); 40. BITEF, selection Show Case; Mila (Darling), Jelena Popadić, Theatre Boško Buha, Belgrade, 2005; festival TEST07, ITD Theatre Zagreb, Croatia; Crave, Sarah Kane, National Theatre, Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade, 2004; The Dracula Project, a group of authors, Theatre des Augenblicks, Museum of the Imperial Furniture, Vienna, Austria, Les Substitance, Lyon, France, 2003/2002.

Author of the workshop (RE)THINK: MEDIUM Developing Strategies for Rearticulating Cultural and Social Practices in/of Contemporary Serbia, the Summer School of the Leipzig University, Institute for Theatrology, Leipzig, Germany, 2006; presented at and participated in symposia home and abroad, texts published in: Klačar, Vojislav, Forming of the IX Government of the Kingdom of Koreta, Belgrade 2007 and in magazines of the TkH centre for theory and practice of performing arts.