Katarina Stegnar: DOUBLE GAME

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

Lecture Performance

It isn’t possible. It isn’t possible for me to react in any other way but with bitter cynicism, when I hear about the plan to save the world. The plan, which is full of diagrams, pictures and numbers, the scientific plan, the factual plan. On the other hand I know, me, Katarina Stegnar, that the cynicism is only a bad defence mechanism protecting me from doing what I have to do. It is necessary for people to know that such a plan exists. It is my duty. It is my calling. In fact I am playing a double agent, playing a double game.

Credits

Author: Katarina Stegnar
Performers: Katarina Stegnar & Katarina Stegnar
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Light design and technical direction: Igor Remeta
Producer: Maja Vižin
Thanks to: Mateja Benedetti, Primož Bezjak, Matej de Cecco, Tomaž Grom, Bojan Jablanovec, Branko Jordan, Teja Kleč, Barbara Kukovec, Grega Zorc
Commissioned and co-produced by Imagine 2020 – Arts and Climate Change and Bunker, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Performances

Premiere:
23rd May 2013 at 8.00 pm, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Critics

N. Jelesijević: Shizophrenia of a performance, Radio študent, 28. 5. 2013 (pdf 272 KB)

Video

Video, editor: Gregor Gobec

Photos

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

Fičo Balet: PARODOS

dance performance

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Marko Batista: OPTOLYTH

At the heart of the performance Optolyth, with which Batista remains true to the established line of his creative inquiry, there are high-frequency generators, whose operation releases a lot of energy or heat and thus affects the material characteristics of purposefully used materials. (more…)

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

The perfomance I Say What I Am Told To Say is tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original way. Beckett, intimate in presenting his own stream of thoughts and yielding himself to the events from the outside world, is a starting point for the authors and performers: Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd. (more…)

Leja Jurišić, Teja Reba: THE SECOND FREEDOM

Freedom is a violent project breaking away, with the constant risk of falling back under the sway of a power as securing as it is stifling. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. If you want to save Peru, go and save Peru.We should never wear stockings or underclothes because it is important to breathe freely. (more…)

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VN LAB – Laboratory for contemporary performing arts

January – June 2013, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

VN Lab is Via Negativa laboratory for performing led by Via Negativa artistic and theatre director Bojan Jablanovec and Via Negativa performers Katarina Stegnar and Grega Zorc. The laboratory will run from January to June 2013 as a series of 6 workshops connected into a continuous creative process. (more…)

Imagine The Great Transition

Imagine 2020 and the New Economics Foundation present Imagine The Great Transition, a joint programme of commissions and events. The first event will take place in London (Toynbee Studios), and is jointly curated and organised by Artsadmin and LIFT as part of the Artsadmin Two Degrees Festival. (more…)

The Audience Council

Photo: Matevž Peršin

Public discussions in collaboration with Bunker, Maska, Via Negativa and Association for Contemporary Dance of Slovenia.

The Audience Council seeks to connect Ljubljana’s independent performing arts scene in the most basic common denominator that constitutes our endeavor into a meaningful activity, namely the spectator. At each Council we will discuss on current performances on the Ljubljana independent scene with the aim to form the space for reflection, discussion and dialogue on what we watched, how we watched and what we saw. The Council thus strives to propel a vibrant exchange of exclusively spectator’s experience, opinions, reflections and expectations. It’s not about whether these performances are brilliant masterpieces or whether they’re average, it’s not about grades and classifications, it’s not about the overlooked or about the notorious performances, it’s about opening up a space that allows for a difference to emerge, the difference between what we were watching and what we saw. In short, it’s about the spectator’s representation about a performance.

It is our belief that Ljubljana is an exceptionally fertile and productive epicenter of contemporary performing practices, extending well beyond average in their expression. And despite a relatively high number of groups and individuals, whose original and effective creative procedures have gained wide recognition across European stages, Ljubljana’s independent scene still hasn’t succeeded in bringing its artistic expression together to become articulated on a higher creative level. The Audience Council seeks to trigger, establish and maintain the links between various stage practices that gravitate towards the field of contemporary independent performing arts and thus gradually form a stage discourse that once in the future may be recognized as “independent Ljubljana scene”.

The Audience Council #1, 5th July 2013
Speakers: Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Grega Zorc, Vito Weis (Via Negativa), Teja Reba, Loup Abramovici (Association for Contemporary Dance of Slovenia), Simon Belak, Zala Sajko, Jurij Smrke (G-Fart), Janez Janša, Nika Arhar, Pia Brezavšček, Katja Čičigoj, Martina Ruhsam (Maska), Samo Selimović (Bunker)

The Audience Council #2, 15th June 2014
Speakers: Marko Bratuš, Simon Belak, Katarina Stegnar, Lana Zdravković & Nenad Jelesijević, Jedrt Jež Furlan

The Audience Council #3, 22nd June 2015
Moderators: Bojan Jablanovec, Janez Janša, Teja Reba, Tamara Bračič Vidmar

The Audience Council #4,  September 2015 – June 2016
The 4th season of the Audience Council is conceptualized as a series of debates in differenc spaces of Ljubljana’s non-governmental artistic scene. There willl be 10 after-performance discussions intended for the audience members to share their experiences, expectations, reflections after the performance just seen.
Moderator: Jedrt Jež Furlan

Photos

Photo: Matevž Peršin

Balkan Express Summer Seminar in Kotor, Montenegro

The Summer Seminar is an informal and open learning format for cultural professionals from the Balkans and beyond, with the 2013 theme of Sustainability. Get inspired by examples of good practice, discuss relevant issues in a trans-sectorial environment and confront your opinion with those of experts and professionals from other sectors. The programme will consist of morning lecture/presentations and afternoon ‘open space’ discussions, inspired by morning speeches.

More info: Balkan Express