Green Utopia, film screening

Kud Obrat, in cooperation with Zavod Bunker, invites you to a screening of the feature documentary Green Utopia followed by a discussion with the author, Urban Zork.

Green Utopia (2013), a documentary film produced by Urban Zorko and Marko Kumr – Murč, is about the first organic certified and integrated community urban garden in Maribor. For a year the authors documented the progress of the community garden project, which was created as part of the Urban Furrows, a programme strand of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012. (more…)

Robertina Šebjanič: Neotenous Dark Dwellers (Lygophilia), discussion

Robertina Šebjanič is an intermedia artist, with special focus in recent years on living systems, sound art, and installations of interactive ambient immersive environment. She began her research of proteus and axolotl, as well as the associated art project, at the Summer Lab 2018, organized by Bunker within Imagine 2020 network.

Opening of the Neotenous Dark Dwellers (Lygophilia) project will include a panel discussion where speakers will try to compare Slovene proteus (human fish) and Mexican axolotl, two similar creatures from two different continents, to reveal their common traits (both are endangered species), their biological features, and their cultural appropriation – both animals are also cultural and not only biological phenomena in their environment.

Guests of the panel discussion: Carlos Pascual, Gregor Aljančič, Magdalena Năpăruș-Aljančič, Robertina Šebjanič, Annick Bureaud

Discussion is an introduction to the exhibition opening on August 31^st at 7.00 p.m. The exhibition will be open until September 2^nd, 2018.

Produced by: Zavod Projekt Atol (Uroš Veber), Arte+Ciencia (UNAM), Zavod Sektor
Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana

Zavod Sektor,  Arte+Cienca

Right on Time? On Resilience and Timeliness, round table discussion

Theatre is said to be a here and now experience, which defies today’s logic of quick changes and virtual presence. It takes time. Irena Štaudohar wrote some years ago that one of the important characteristics of the Mladi Levi festival was that all curatorial choices were right – on time. Or ahead of time, maybe? Is this the recipe for survival of an arts organization, of an NGO, to be on time or to beat time?

We would like to explore the idea of being on time and of being ahead of time or being behind time in terms of curatorial choices and also in terms of the decisions we make in order for our arts organizations, for our work and for us to survive. Does resilience in the world of art depend on the capability of predicting and anticipating changes (are the things that we took for granted – like artistic freedom – disintegrating)? Is there a gap between Eastern and Western understanding of contemporaneity? And how to fight for time at the time when time is a commodity? We would also like to find inspiration for resilience at the time when changes are so quick that the problems sometimes already become passé before we are able to address them.

The roundtable will begin with cases from the speakers on their strategies and tactics of survival and time and continue into a debate. We will start behind time and finish on time.

Moderator: Tjaša Pureber
Speakers: Rarita Zbranca, Sodja Lotker Zupanc, Tomasz Kirenczuk, Siniša Labrović, Nevenka Koprivšek
In collaboration with: Relais Culture Europe, AltArt

The discussion is in English.

More information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Meeting of the new Creative Europe’s Cooperation Projects

Meeting of the new Creative Europe’s Cooperation Projects
After the Create to Connect –> Create to Impact project

The results of the call for proposals for Cooperation Projects within the Creative Europe Program were published this July. Once again, Slovene applicants were extremely successful. We invite you to the meeting of all new Cooperation Projects. We will present the results of Slovenia and of the 20 Slovene organizations participating in the supported projects. The meeting will also represent an opportunity to exchange experience, opinions, and possible networking.

One of the projects that received funding is Create to Connect –> Create to Impact. It is a continuation of the project that will conclude with some of this year’s Mladi Levi performances. We will try to outline the achievements of the past five years and announce the activities for the future.

In collaboration with Motovila Institute, Creative Europe Desk Slovenia.

More information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

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Anti Status Quo Companhia De Dança: OF FLESH AND CONCRETE (BR)

Following their intervention in public space Chameleons, Anti Status Quo will also contribute to the festival with a choreographic installation, which is a good representation of their style, or their creative method that connects visual art, contemporary dance, research, philosophy …

Of Flesh and Concrete is a choreographic installation of bodies and garbage. First, the audience is anonymized, and then becomes part of the moving (or evading) mass that follows the transformations of the shapes generated by behavior, bodies and garbage. Through the gradually evolving relation between the audience, performers and objects, choreography is being created, which incorporates the entire space, the audience and garbage in addition to the bodies. Of Flesh and Concrete is a simultaneous experience of despair due to infinite consumption, waste and devastation and the vitality of carnality; it is an inquiry of human condition that raises questions about living in society and how the current economic system shapes our behavior; it is also a physical journey among bodies and garbage, since the audience is exposed to both, and our cooperation maybe trains us how to shift away from the status quo.

Artistic director, choreography and concept: Luciana Lara
Research and creation: Luciana Lara in colaboration with dancers and invited artists
Dance: Camilla Nyarady, Cristhian Cantarino, Déborah Alessandra, João Lima, Luciana Matias, Marcia Regina, Roberto Dagô, Robson Castro
Research and creation collaborators: Camilla Nyarady, Carolina Carret, Cristhian Cantarino, João Lima, Luara Learth, Raoni Carricondo, Robson Castro, Vinícius Santana
Invited process collaborators: Marcelo Evelin, Gustavo Ciríaco, Denise Stutz
Costumes and masks: Luciana Lara and dancers
Light design consultants: James Fensterseifer, Marcelo Augusto
Production: Marconi Valadares
Local co-ordinator: Klara Drnovšek Solina
140 minutes

Foto: Mila Petrillo

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Ana Borralho & João Galante: TRIGGER OF HAPPINESS (PT, SI)

Ana Borralho and João Galante, Portuguese interdisciplinary artists who usually work together, are coming to Mladi Levi for the second time. Their credo is that art is a part of society, its changes and its problems. That art has to be transformative and must have direct contact with people. In 2013, they staged Atlas in Ljubljana, together with one hundred locals of all generations and profiles – a map of life, the world, the destinies shaped by people with their own stories.

We always say that the youth are the future of the world, but they are rarely listened to. But Borralho and Galante will create a theatre situation where we will really listen to them. The performance will be made with twelve local young adults aged 18 to 23. Speakers take turns in answering questions or challenges on the principle of Russian roulette. And if we are talking about happiness, we cannot ignore its antithesis – perhaps not unhappiness, but rather those formative experiences which can often be unpleasant, which leave a permanent mark, and maybe even pave the way towards happiness.

Concept, artistic direction: Ana Borralho & João Galante
Performers: Domen Blatnik, Klančič Lea, Diana Kolenc, Lara Lovrič, Katarina Majcen, Tina Malenšek, Ivana Kristina Mohar, Gašpar Marinič, Míla Peršin, Anže Testen, Kaja Brina Uršič and Tom Veber
Light design: Thomas Walgrave
Sound: Coolgate, Pedro Augusto
Dramaturgical collaboration: Fernando J. Ribeiro
Stage assistance and rehearsal assistance: Cátia Leitão, Antonia Buresi, Catarina Gonçalves, Tiago Gandra
Production manager: Mónica Samões
Production and touring: Andrea Sozzi
Executive producer: Joana Duarte
Local producer: Mojca Jug
Produced by: casaBranca
Translator: Ema Karo
Co-producers: Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Jonk – NY, internationell scenkonst för unga, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil – CND, Le Phénix – Scène nationale Valenciennes pôle Européen de création, Le Boulon Centre National des Arts de la Rue de Vieux – Condé
Support: Câmara Municipal de Lagos, Espaço Alkantara, LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, SIN Arts and Culture Centre (Budapest), Companhia Olga Roriz
International touring support: Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil – CND

90 minutes

The performance will be in Slovene.

Foto: Didier Crasnault

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Beton Ltd.: GREAT EXPECTATIONS|GROSSE ERWARTUNGEN (SI)

Beton Ltd. are a collective of authors: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan. Great Expectations|Große Erwartungen, a festival premiere, is their sixth performance. They say they always begin a performance from ground zero, but for a performance to emerge from nothing, personal grips are almost always of key importance for them. They do not enter narrations and dilemmas through individual stories alone, but also through personal ones. »We can only legitimately speak about ourselves.« After ecology, transitional/growing‑up loss of illusions, the impotency of resistance, generational angst, they are now dealing with the topic of great expectations and future. And what are expectations if not projections of present desires? »The desires of a European, white, heterosexual, urban, cosmopolitan, overrepresented generation. But we must not forget: Katarina, Primož, Branko … we were all children once. Slovene children. Some still are.«

Concept and direction: Beton Ltd.
Performing: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan
Music: U$IŁ (Maksim Špelko, Janez Weiss), Jure Vlahovič
Set and lighting design: toni soprano + Sonda 57
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Visual materials: toni soprano
Dramaturgical collaborator: Urška Brodar
Technical director: Andrej Petrovčič
Executive producer: Maja Vižin
Public relations: Tamara Bračič Vidmar
Translation: Tibor Hrs Pandur
Artistic residency: Santarcangelo Festival
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
Made possible by: Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, City Municipality of Ljubljana, European Union — Culture programme, Create to Connect
Thanks to: Španski borci
70 minutes

The performance is in Slovene with English surtitles.

Foto: toni soprano

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere: MINING STORIES (BE)

Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere are theatre artists who were in the middle of their research for a new project when a mining dam broke in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, causing toxic mudflows to flood and destroy numerous villages and flow into the Doce River. Huysmans was born in the region, and so the personal connection and the cataclysmic nature of the disaster ignited their decision to travel to Minas Gerais.

In Mining Stories, they gave a voice to others; Silke Huysmans is on stage as MC, working with documentary audio material, which consists not only of the testimonies of the Minas Gerais inhabitants, but also of various researchers and theorists. Mining Stories is a documentary performance where the authors, faced with the immensity of the tragedy, remain silent – just like the rest of us. And yet, they take a key step forward – if we can all only be quiet, they are at least giving a voice to those who have something to say and have been affected. In the era of one‑minute videos, are we still able to listen carefully at all? From the voices of individuals to the cacophony of a disaster.

Created by: Silke Huysmans, Hannes Dereere
Performance: Silke Huysmans
Dramaturgical advice: Dries Douibi
Technical support: Christoph Donse
Set: Frédéric Aelterman, Luc Cools
Portuguese transcriptions: Luanda Casella, Miguel Ciprian
Production: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Bâtard Festival
Co-production: Noorderzon Festival, KAAP Creative Compass
Residencies: Veem House For Performance, Campo, CC De Grote Post, KAAP Creative Compass, Grand Theatre Groningen, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Vooruit Arts Centre
Supported by: Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Sabam For Culture
50 minutes

Performance with English surtitles, abstract in Slovene will be provided.

Foto: Tom Callemin

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

dollardaddy’s: HOME (HU)

dollardaddy’s (Dollár Papa Gyermekei) is one of the youngest Hungarian ensembles, founded by a Hungarian experimental theatre duo, Emőke Kiss-Végh and Tamás Ördög. Their work is inspired by the Dogma films – a minimalistic, refined style. They work with classic dramas, where they keep the characters, while the actors narrate the original text in their own words. Home is based on August Strindberg’s The Pelican, and represents the second part of the Family Trilogy (Love, Home, Child).

The tension in the performance is created by the discrepancy between a completely classical nature of the play, which is at the same time stripped of almost everything theatrical. In keeping with the Dogma style, there is no theatre light, props, set; only naturalistic acting by the outstanding actors moving among the audience. There is also no fourth wall – not just because there’s no stage, but also because there is no illusion of an enclosed space. Viewers are part of nothingness surrounding the only thing that exists: drama acting. And the dialogues, which become up‑to‑date and are not over 100 years old anymore, as they are stripped down to pure human relationships.

Director: Tamás Ördög

Elise, the mother: Krisztina Urbanovits
Fredrik, her son: Máté Dezső Georgita
Gerda, her daughter: Piroska Mészáros
Axel, her son-in-law: Tamás Ördög

Translation: Ana Radović

70 minutes

Performance is in Hungarian with Slovene and English surtitles.

Foto:  Ligetvari Csenge

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Anti Status Quo Companhia De Dança: KAMELEONI (BR)

Brazilian dance company Anti Status Quo is an independent artistic experimental laboratory of contemporary dance. Their name alone implies they are against the existing state of affairs; they want to move us (and themselves) out of the status quo by means of hybrid art, which spans across contemporary dance, visual art, experiment, research … They construct critical and political dramaturgies and a strong dialogue with visual arts and philosophy. The group was established in 1988 by choreographer Luciana Lara, who today shares art direction with Brazilian producer, set designer and designer Marconi Valadares.

Chameleons is an »urban intervention of disappearing«; the dancers’ bodies become canvases for printed media and advertisements, creating visual distractions and accents in the city. And every disturbance, distortion, alteration of the known – or already well-known images and familiar scenes in different configurations, and in communication with bodies in general – call for different perception and the combination of the meanings seen.

Location: Cankarjeva street, Čopova street, Prešern square in Ljubljana

Artistic direction and concept: Luciana Lara
Dancers: Camilla Nyarady, Cristhian Cantarino, Déborah Alessandra, João Lima, Luciana Matias, Marcia Regina, Roberto Dagô, Robson Castro
Research and creation collaborators: Breno Metre, Gigliola Mendes, Leandro Menezes, Paula Medeiros
Costumes: Luciana Lara in plesalci/and dancers

60 minutes

Foto: Luciana Lara

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906