COMPLAINTS CHOIR LJUBLJANA (Slovenia, Finland)

Tuesday, August 26th at 5 pm
Dvorni trg (5 pm), Prešernov trg (5.30 pm), Mestni trg (6 pm)

I HAVE A GREAT APPARTMENT, BUT IN THE WRONG CITY
Slovenes think that Slovenia is a country of complainers, but it seems that people like to complain everywhere in the world. Everywhere they say that they are overburdened with work; that their politicians are only caricatures; that men are not as they used to be or that the weather doesn’t suit our wishes and needs. Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, two Finnish artists, decided to creatively channel complaining into something positive. If things don’t turn for the better, we can at least stop becoming upset. The Complaints choir collects complaints about everything from everyone in various cities; it transforms them into lyrics, sets them to music and then they are sung on the streets. The Ljubljana Choir first formed and performed in Ljubljana in April and will complain again, in greater numbers and with an even longer list of complaints on the streets of Ljubljana at the Mladi levi festival. What annoys citizens of Ljubljana? The theft of bicycles, hollow chocolate Easter bunnies, municipal cultural policy, high appartment prices, Slovene TV series which shouldn’t continue…

Authors of concept: Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
Production: KUD Obrat
Coproduction: Bunker, Ljubljana
Producers: Katarina Slukan, Polonca Jurman
Music: Tomaž Grom