And what do others have to say?: The Role of Artist in Space

The performance entitled I Say What I Am Told to Say will be followed by a conversation with members of Beton Ltd., hosted by Lana Zdravković and Nenad Jelesijević/KITCH.

Art is neither a decorative element nor the amusing side of society, but rather an arena of encounters in the aesthetics of performativity. A conversation on the role of an artist in the sphere of the collective, accompanying the staging of a performance by Beton Ltd. in Ljubljana, will thus take the above premise for its referential framework.

We will delve into a debate on formal as well as content-related sides of a performance and manners of collective creative process, and most importantly, on the existing resemblances between this collective creative process on the one hand and long-term processes striving to construct a collective entity within social movements on the other. What can one possibly learn from creative obstacles encountered in artistic process? Where to look for neuralgic points of contact between art and politics? How to transfer a creative experience of this sort into an arena of continuous resistance, imposed upon us by the present moment, marked by an increasing exploitation of the ever poorer majority by the wealthy minority?