Leja Jurišić, Teja Reba: IDEAL, premiere

Photo: Petra Veber

Ideal is a dance performance for two performers, a bunch of patriarchal semi-celebrities, and a bed. Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba, whose craft treads the intersection of dance, performance, and (post-dramatic) theatre and who have to date been hosted at, inter alia, Online Art+ in New York, Tanzquartier in Vienna, and ]performance space[ in London, seize upon Goebbels’ trichotomy between the private, the public-private, and the fully public life of the individual, which they then superimpose upon Marx’s remark that a lot of work gets done in bed. (more…)

ERIC LEONARDSSON & MARTIN BRANDLMAYR

Photo: Salvatore Di Gregorio

Two supreme sound artists and performers will set up this concert event, inspiring and enchanting the audience with their diversity, abundance of sound and performing devotion. (more…)

Show Your Face! and Lyrical Minutes in the City at the Spectrum Theaterfest (Austria)

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Betontanc & Umka.lv will perform Show Your Face! on 1st July 2015 at the Spectrum Theaterfest (Villach, Austria). Show Your Face! is a virtuosic performance of puppetry, theatre, dance, and live music that examines the effects of courage (or lack thereof) throughout the 20th century. (more…)

Lyrical Minutes in the City at the Berlin Festival

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Opera artists will be a special surprise for the visitors of the Berlin Festival, which will take place from 29th to 31st May in Arena Park.
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Ready to Change: Rethinking the Relationship between Artists and Communities, conference

The tight relationship between different communities and artistic production is as old as art itself. Artists have worked in them, with them and for them. Because of the everchanging meanings and relationship, we can look at this specific relation from different perspectives but in this edition of the conference, we have put a strong emphasis on participatory artistic approaches that involve communities directly. (more…)

Year 18 of the Institute for Labour Studies: CAPITALIST STATE

Elektro Ljubljana Union Hall (entrance at the Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana)

Numerous traditional theories of state, which developed within the horizon of historic materialism, were immersed either in the debate about the base and superstructure and thus reduced to economism, or they considered the state as the tool in the hands of the ruling class, (more…)

Leja Jurišić and Petra Veber: I FEAR SLOVENIA

Photo: Petra Veber

Our bodies are perfect.
Our bodies are erected.
Our bodies are strong.
We feel water.
We feel mountains.
We feel green.
It is midnight. (more…)

Beton Ltd.: EVERYTHING WE’VE LOST, WHILE WE’VE GONE ON LIVING

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

What has by now become a distinctive creative posture of the Beton Ltd. collective – namely, its ability to provide the immediately responsive and comprehensively communicational comments on the time and the world we live in – once again becomes embodied in the project Everything we’ve lost while we’ve gone on living, where the image of the current present time is placed right next to the past. It is, of course, not only sweet nostalgia that becomes evoked as the history is thus brought back to life, but also the individual anguish, emanating from the polar opposite between what was before and what is today. (Zala Dobovšek, Delo, 28. 9. 2013) (more…)

Teja Reba: MADE WITH LOVE

Photo: Miha Fras

Similar as in her earlier works, Teja Reba is continuously intrigued by the relationships between physical, emotional and political acts.These acts are always walking the line – between aesthetics and ideology, between references (repetition) and new possibilities (difference), between the sublime and the object, between sex and sexuality, between everyday life and art, between courage and vulnerability. (more…)

Via Negativa & Oblivia: AND SO ON AND SO FORTH

Photo: Marcandrea

And so on and so forth. The phrase implying that something goes on to infinity. If one has enough imagination that is… (more…)