Ready to Change International Conference: NEW POLITICAL MYTHOLOGIES AND ART

The cognitive science is proving more and more that the facts do not directly correlate or influence our understanding of the world. The climate change debate testifies to this: even though the evidence corpus is compiling and the science community is backing the claims that the climate change is man-induced, the shift in acting upon facts not beliefs still has not happened (therefore the sentence: I do not believe in climate change). Our beliefs are shaped by dominant narratives or mythologies and internalized through the filter of our personal narrative – story of our role and position in relations. (more…)

Ready to Change International Conference: NEW POLITICAL MYTHOLOGIES AND ART

Mark Twain’s quote “never let the truth get in the way of a good story” has its dark side. Cognitive science is increasingly establishing that facts don’t necessarily affect our perception of reality. Translating this into the language of mythology, one could say that myths are impervious to the negating and exposing power of fact, no matter how irrefutable.

The greatest myths of our time are those of the omnipotence of capital, the impossibility of true democracy, of irreconcilable differences between us and them, myths of the divinity of the nation-state, not least myths claiming change is impossible, that passivity and chaos are the order of the day. (more…)

The Mladi levi festival 2016 on the lookout for enthusiastic volunteers

festival picnic, photo: Nada Žgank

The enthusiasm of volounteers has been for many years an indispensable part of the International Festival Mladi levi!  We are inviting people of various profiles, experience and ages to join us again and help us with the organization of the 19th edition of the festival. (more…)

Kalle Nio, WHS: DEPARTURE (FI)

Photo: WHS

It is about a woman and a man in a complicated relationship. They are standing on the stage confused, surrounded by clothes and hoping to solve their misunderstanding. Their feelings and thoughts are expressed through the movements of their bodies and their clothes, which seem to live a life of their own. Black and white cinematic aesthetics of the performance borrows from various film inserts by Michelangelo Antonioni, rummaging through the issues of strangeness, absurd and noise in communication between the two individuals. The action evokes a sense of floating in a dream, and a sense of complete illusion, thus triggering a unique theatrical experience that combines circus, magic, dance, audio and visual elements. (more…)

Hotel Modern: CAMP (NL)

Photo: Leo Van Velzen

There is this huge model of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. We see the packed barracks, the railway track and the entrance portal with the inscription »Arbeit Macht Frei«. Hotel Modern attempts to depict the undepictable. (more…)

In the frame of SPARKS we are presenting VN Lab: Sugar

Photo: VN LAB

When the sugar turns into poison? When the idea turns into opium? Why the past never disappears? Why the forbidden tastes so sweet? Why do we need borders to feel free?

After six workshops in six months, after many attempts, ideas, questions and doubts, after lengthy discussions and in-depth feedback, following consideration of what and why to perform, the six stubborn and deliberated performers still found enough serious reasons for their decision to step on the stage and to expose themselves to the gaze of the critical viewer. (more…)

Jan Rozman: SENZASENSO

Photo: Matija Lukić

SENZASENSO is a place where I cannot find meaning. / SENZASENSO is a state of restlessness that leads to nowhere. / SENZASENSO is an idea gone wrong. / SENZASENSO is a thought in decay. / SENZASENSO is the moment when I lose control. / SENZASENSO is a performance of insanity. (more…)

Matjaž Farič: RED -TRAIL

Photo: Matej Fišer

Too school-like. As in Red Blood? Too pathetic. As in Red Star? Too political. Red … Red as meat. The substance we are made of. The substance which allows us to move, including boundaries. The substance which all organs are made of. Like  smell, for example.  (more…)

Mladi Levi International Festival 2016

19^th consecutive edition of the Mladi levi international festival of contemporary arts is set and ready to perk up the late summer scene in Ljubljana and bring leading-edge stage artists from all over the world. An allegorical performance by the French director Philippe Quesne, Night of the Moles, will open the festival and have us follow gigantic magical creatures as they lead us into the cavity of the world in their search for shelter.

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Kaja Lorenci: JUST IN APPEARANCE SOMETIMES AS EVERYONE ELSE

Photo: Nada Žgank

In her performance Just in Appearance Sometimes as Everyone Else, Kaja Lorenci multiplies the form of the duet with different dance tasks and configurations, delimiting it by two choreographic contrasts: the solo as the dancer’s monologue, which is a kind of a precondition for establishing communication with the other, and the group choreographic configuration, in which the duets enter their indistinguishable multiplicity. (more…)