Janez Janša: WHO IS NEXT?

The performance opens the questions of individuals’ responsibility in the contemporary society – society of recession, shock, precarious livelihood, insecurity and carelessness. What kind of action would it take to trigger a change? Is democracy nothing but an empty ritual of endless dialogues that lead nowhere? Who will take the responsibility and do something? Do something and not back down? Is violence really the only way out? (more…)

KUL ABONMA presents: JIMMY BARKA EXPERIENCE

DJ night / concert

Jimmy Barka Experience is a project devised by three veterans of the Slovenian music scene, who made an attempt to surpass the standard DJ/musician combo. Their mission statement was to make the thing sound as a band, a trio and not as “musician playing along a dj set”. The result is a collage of all sorts of stuff, from funk, breaks, afro, to balksploitation and rock.  (more…)

Students of SVŠGL: Pre-premiere ’13: A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

Pre-premiere is an annual closing performance of the Educational School and High School of Ljubljana – the Arts Programme. The students from contemporary-dance and theatre study courses are thus given an opportunity to enter professional stages in an organized manner and pre-experience performing. Pre-premiere ’13: A Room of One’s Own tackles the position of a woman in contemporary society. The performance addresses identity politics and issues of gender equality by referring to the personal and the social, the engaged and the critical. It re-examines gender as a social construct and opens a reflective stance towards its captive nature on the one hand and possibilities for its expansion on the other. Can one define male and female as evident categories by their very nature, or can it be that these categories are the result of our own constructs and ideological re-transcriptions? What are gender representations like and what inhabits them? (more…)

SPARKS

The Sparks programme aims to present young and not yet renowned artists as well as bold and penetrative ideas by acclaimed authors. The intention is to allow for something new and innovative to arise.

• 6.00 p.m. SHUDDERS, multimedia installation
• 6.00 p.m. DOORS SHUT
• 7.30 p.m. VN LAB presents three sparks of 2012: (more…)

Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd., are tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original way. (more…)

The Workers and Punks’ University May Day School: TRANSITION, AUSTERITY AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION – LEFT ANSWERS

Capitalism reveals itself in the time of crisis. As Marx and Engels have stressed in The Communist Manifesto, a crisis would seem, from the standpoint of earlier epochs, an utter absurdity. A capitalist crisis is an epidemic of over-production that entails social devastation, destruction of living conditions and overall immiseration of the working masses; precisely this is underway in Europe right now. (more…)

Mare Bulc: ALL TOGETHER NOW!

The music-theatre project is »theatricalizing« the musical to dissect the migration and the impossibility of migration, the leaving and staying, the reasons why to persist and why to leave. The choice of the performing team consisting of musicians and not actors established the circumstances for a non-every-day creative process and faced the director with a unique challenge as far as how to theatricalize the de-theatricalized musical situation. (more…)

Neven Korda: CONSOLIDATIONS

Video strategies of mapping in an artist’s time and work

In his performance, video artist Neven Korda »returns« to his initial position, that is, to the manipulation of video material, while he gives up neither his own performative attitude nor the presence of theory (Miha Zadnikar) or music (Lady Bird). (more…)

Subversive forum: THE UTOPIA OF DEMOCRACY

Also this year a part of the programme of the international Subversive forum, which will be organised in Zagreb, will be streamed in Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana. The debates and round table discussions will be addressing the Utopia of Democracy, among critical speakers Oliver Stone, Chantal Mouffe, Yanis Varoufakis, Tariq Ali and Slavoj Žižek are expected. (more…)

2013 SVŠGL’s Evening of Soli

Besides the Pre-premiere, the final dance production of all four classes of the Early Childhood Education High School and Gymnasium Ljubljana – Art Gymnasium, this year we present authorial soli by the High School graduates of the Dance Department. Preparing solo choreographies the graduates autonomously explore a chosen topic and develop individual choreographic approaches. This years’ topic is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s work A Room of One’s Own.
Production: Emanat, SVŠGL