{{Short description|Croatian artist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox artist | name = Boris Bakal | image = Boris Bakal.jpeg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1959 | birth_place = Zagreb, SR Croatia,<br/>SFR Yugoslavia | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | spouse = | field = Theatre, film, writing | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = ArtsLink Fellow, Bitef Festival Special jury awards, Pula Theatre Festival awards | elected = | website = <!-- {{URL|http://shadowcasters.blogspot.com}} --> }}
'''Boris Bakal''' (born September 18, 1959, in Zagreb) is a theatre/film director and actor.
==Biography== Boris Bakal was born in Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now the Republic of Croatia)<ref>[http://www.d-a-z.hr/hr/vijesti/boris-bakal-neka-prostor-govori-umjesto-mene,1745.html Interview with Boris Bakal in architect review "Man and Space"]</ref>
He was a visiting scholar/lecturer and researcher at New York University (1998), Stony Brook University (1999), Studio Art Centres International (Florence, 2000), and Columbia University (New York, 2003), Leiden University (2008), Kent University (Canterbury, 2013), DAMU (Prague, 2014) and others.
He was an artistic director and curator of the multidisciplinary urban festival "Hunting Season" (Stagione di Caccia) in Bologna, (Italy), from 1999 to 2001,<ref>[http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/molteplicitta/molteplicitta.pl?cod=3 Review of the 1999 edition of the festival "Hunting Season"]</ref><ref>[http://www.undo.net/it/evento/6942 Review of the 2001 edition of the festival "Hunting Season"]</ref> and co-director and co-curator of Migrative Art Festival (within the Flying University Project),<ref>[https://www.veto.be/files/2022/10/31/veto2015.pdf About Flying University Project in magazine Veto (1994)]</ref><ref>[https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/view/18860395/vogelzang-gekelderd-archief-van-veto/3 About the Festival in magazine Veto (1993)]</ref> Louvain la Nuove (Belgium), 1993–1995 and Tunel Festival, Zagreb (Croatia) in 1995.
He is also a co-founder and co-author of the projects of Bacači Sjenki/Shadow Casters (since 2001). Bakal is signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku|url=https://jezicinacionalizmi.com/lista-potpisnika/|access-date=2024-06-21|website=Jezici i nacionalizmi}}</ref>
== Bibliography (selection) == * Sandra Uskokovic - "Choreographing architecture" - City, journal of analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Volume 21, 2017 - Issue 6, Print {{ISSN|1360-4813}} Online {{ISSN|1470-3629}}, Routledge - Taylor&Francis Group, UK, 2017,<ref>[https://rsa.tandfonline.com/eprint/3gqi9ieewxaSZnZGQ3TS/full The essey by Sandra Uskokovic about Boris Bakal urban and community restoration project "Vitic Dances"]</ref> * Boris Bakal/Sandra Uskokovic – "Urban Hum: Memory Theater of the City" – Journal of Urban Cultural Research vol. 11, Osaka City University & Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok/Osaka, 2015 <ref>[http://www.cujucr.com/downloads/Individual%20Articles/11/vol11%20Sandra%20Uskokovic%20&%20Boris%20Bakal.pdf The essey by Boris Bakal and Sandra Uskokovic about urban artistic projects]</ref> * Boris Bakal – "The Legend of the Boat" – Oris magazine for architecture no. 91, Oris House for Architecture, Zagreb, 2015 <ref>[http://oris.hr/en/oris-magazine/overview-of-articles/the-legend-of-the-boat,3366.html The essey by Boris Bakal about architect Ivan Vitić]</ref> * Duška Radosavljević – Theatre Making – Palgrave Macmillan, 2013<ref>[http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/book-review-theatre-making-duska-radosavljevic/ Dan Hutton's review on book "Theatre Making"]</ref> * Duška Radosavljević – The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers – Rutlege, 2012 <ref>[http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415535304/ Presentation of the book "The Contemporary Ensemble"]</ref> * Boris Bakal – "Fragments about the Space" – Kolo no. 4, Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 2007<ref>[http://www.matica.hr/kolo/305/Fragmenti%20o%20prostoru/ The essey by Boris Bakal about space]</ref> * Boris Bakal – "The Naked and the Dead/Goli i mrtvi", Zarez 210, 2007<ref>[http://www.zarez.hr/clanci/goli-i-mrtvi The essey by Boris Bakal about value of performing arts]</ref> * Boris Bakal – "Recognizing networks", a chapter in the book: Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert/Relations – Leap into the city: Chişinău, Sofia, Pristina, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana – 7 scenes from Europe – DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne, 2006 <ref>[http://www.projekt-relations.de/en/explore/sprung_in_die_stadt/ Presentation of the book "Leap into the City"]</ref> * Katarina Pejović – "The Portret of Multimedia Artist", Up&Underground, 2006<ref>[http://www.up-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/0708_boris_bakal.pdf Review of Boris Bakal work from 1985 to 2006 in art magazine] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221011134/http://www.up-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/0708_boris_bakal.pdf |date=December 21, 2014 }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bakal, Boris}} Category:Living people Category:Croatian theatre directors Category:1959 births Category:Male actors from Zagreb Category:Theatre people from Zagreb Category:Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language