Gentë Retkoceri


Multidisciplinary
︎Design
︎Performance
︎Teaching


Gentë Retkoceri is a multidisciplinary artist from Kosova. Currently she is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. She obtained her MFA in Design from VCUarts in Qatar. Through her work she has merged live performance and film with designs that tackle controversial topics mostly about women’s rights. Through performing arts, she has developed educational design ideas and workshops for children and adults in Qatar. She has a BA in Architecture and Acting from the University of Prishtina and an MA in Theater Education from Emerson College in Boston, US. She is an experienced actor in a theater and film counting more than 20 main roles over her 10-year career. Her wide-ranging career has taken her from working in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the National Theater to the USA working for the Emerson Stage in Boston. Currently, she is also conducting different acting and performance courses at the Al Jazeera Training institute in Doha.
She conducted two theater workshops during the D'reesha Performing Arts Festival which was inaugurated for the first time on December 2021 by Qatar Foundation.

Gentë Retkoceri



Multidisciplinary
︎Design
︎Performance

︎Teaching


Gentë Retkoceri is a multidisciplinary artist from Kosova. Currently she is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. She obtained her MFA in Design from VCUarts in Qatar. Through her work she has merged live performance and film with designs that tackle controversial topics mostly about women’s rights. Through performing arts, she has developed educational design ideas and workshops for children and adults in Qatar. She has a BA in Architecture and Acting from the University of Prishtina and an MA in Theater Education from Emerson College in Boston, US. She is an experienced actor in a theater and film counting more than 20 main roles over her 10-year career. Her wide-ranging career has taken her from working in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the National Theater to the USA working for the Emerson Stage in Boston. Currently, she is also conducting different acting and performance courses at the Al Jazeera Training institute in Doha. She conducted two theater workshops during the D'reesha Performing Arts Festival which was inaugurated for the first time on December 2021 by Qatar Foundation.

Design your acting
︎Qatar ‘22

Melting Pottery Rossana Orlandi Gallery, 7-12.6, 2022, ︎Milano, Italy





MFA Design, Thesis Project

A gun for every woman




Abstract

Six centuries ago in Kosova, my home country, unmarried women known as sworn virgins, were forced to adopt a male persona and carry a gun to protect themselves. But today, guns have become tools of oppression and violence against women. And while the legal system carries penalties for domestic violence, marital rape is excluded. To shine a light on, and expose the topic of hidden violence, my thesis uses artivism to address a sensitive but provocative issue, exhibiting a large-scale sculpture of a gun, designed to provoke raw emotions; to challenge visitors to consider the terror felt by women threatened at gunpoint. The sculpture incarnates trauma, and manifests gendered-violence concepts, asking how these weapons shifted from tools of liberation to tools of oppression.








Creative kit, Product/Service

Design your acting 




About this project
Design your acting is a creative which stands in 5 pillars to help ages 9 years old and above improve their Self Confidence, Motor skills, Personal growth, Communication skills and Imagination.   






Porducts, Conceptual Design

Exhibitions and design


Building along Building (Exquisite Corpse Project)

Future School, Korean Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy

There is No Safety without Risk, Doha
Global Studio, 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea

Melting Pottery MatrixCircolo del Design, 3.3 / 13.4, 2022, Torino, Italy

Melting Pottery ProcessMunlab, Ecomuseo dell'Argilla, 5-27.3, 2022, Cambiano (Torino), Italy

Upcoming: Melting Pottery Rossana Orlandi Gallery, 7-12.6, 2022, Milano, Italy


Images



Acting, Performance

Theater and film

LELA AND CO - Theater Production -Lead role, Directed by: Eki Rrahmani,National Theater of Kosova 2021

IN THE BOSTON STREETS - Directed by: Sandra Lee, Short Film, Boston, US 2017
Lead role - Nietzsche
      


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