SNEŽANA GOLUBOVIĆ & TONY RIZZI

“LET’S TALK ABOUT COCK”

Snežana Golubović (*1965, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) is an artist and a writer based in Germany. She grew up with the Belgrade Alternative Scene (BAS), heard Ekatarina Velika, read Ivo Andrić and Danilo Kiš, visited BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival) and FEST (Film festival), studied Drama, wrote about music and film, spent her summers in Dubrovnik and made her own radio and TV programs. In 1992, she moved to Germany where she has worked independently as an actress / performer in professional productions directed by renowns such as Alexander Brill, Dirk Hauser, Angie Hiesl, Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway. In Germany, she studied Theatre, Film and Media Science / American Culture & Art History at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main and wrote her Master thesis about Pain in the Performances by Marina Abramović. From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the Independent Performance Group (I.P.G.), which was founded and led by Abramović. Since 2013 she has been a co-founder and member of the performance art trio TRaG (Trojan, Reiser and Golubović). Her works have been shown internationally at, among others: NMAC Foundation / Cadiz, Van Gogh Museum / Amsterdam, Avignon Theatre Festival, Venice Biennale, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium / Brussels as well as at numerous exhibitions and performance art festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America. From November 2020 till April 2025 she was Professor for Performative cultural education at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.

Snežana Golubović (Website)

Tony Rizzi (*1965 born Anthony James Rizzi in Dedham, Massachusetts) is an Italian American choreographer, performer and visual artist born in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1965. After training at the Boston Ballet, he joined William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt at the age of 20, beginning a two-decade collaboration that helped shape contemporary dance. Alongside his work with Forsythe, Rizzi collaborated extensively with Belgian artist and theatre director Jan Fabre, performing internationally while developing a multidisciplinary artistic practice that bridges dance, theatre, visual art, film, and performance. Rizzi has been taking photographs since the age of fourteen, already seeing life in pictures. In the early 1990s, he expanded this lifelong practice by developing large-scale collages made from Polaroid photographs. His visual work explores memory, identity and the relationship between image and movement. Since the early 1990s, Rizzi has also created choreographic works for companies throughout Europe and beyond. In 2000, he founded Tony Rizzi & the Bad Habits. Its first production, Snowman Sinking, created with his mother, Verna Rizzi, established him as an original voice in Tanztheater. Through his company, he continues to create performances that combine movement, photography, film, collage, text, humor, and social commentary. His works have been exhibited throughout Germany and internationally including the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt), the Kunstverein Hamburg, MUMOK in Vienna and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.