Tanja Radež: DUST COLLECTORS (Slovenia), misterious composition

Tanja Radež, a visual artist and a self‑proclaimed ostalgist, likes to spend her private and professional time digging through recent past or its material remains. As a designer, she is arranging all her findings, as visual quotations, into new, original constellations, thus marking them with the personal and the contemporary.

Artist residence in Istanbul provided her with the topic of emotional materialism and reminded her of all the dust collectors – which are abundant in Istanbul. The exhibition will gather combined domestic and international objects, which perhaps once had many roles, but of which only two remain today – collecting dust and evoking emotions, most notably nostalgia. The location itself is a dust collector ­– former tailoring shop where master Žika used to work for decades is now an empty space. Even the letters on the display window are all sad and dusty. Remnants of the past, dust collectors … But when we move them away from their usual place, they leave a gap behind: a dustless spot on a shelf, a less faded wallpaper on the wall, a hole in the heart. If fear is hollow inside and empty outside, nostalgia is full inside, and stuffed with dust collectors outside. Since objects can only live in relation to people, the exhibition will be toured by people who know how to swipe off dust and give objects the space and significance they deserve.

Author: Tanja Radež
Producer: Alma R. Selimović
In collaboration with: ZRC SAZU, Festival Indigo, Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljane
The misterious composition was created as a result of the art based research by Tanja Radež within the trans-making project.

The mysterious composition will be open every day from 4.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m., until 13th September 2019.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°734855.

RE-MAPPING LJUBLJANA: SPACES OF STRUGGLE, SOLIDARITY AND NON-HOSPITALITY

collective city walk of three itineraries

Ilegalac. Other identity. Radio Kričač. White émigré. Nansen passport. Čefur(ji). Non-identity. Homogenous group. Gender divided space. To expell. Burning the books. Erased from the register. Negative Monuments. Razor wire. Second home. Politics of padlock. Invisible workers. Balkan route. Dormitory. Asylum home.

Starting from the list of words that relates bodies, activities, materials on the move and objects that give or take from us rights to move, we are proposing an open and collective walk across Ljubljana. The attempt is to explore multiple narratives, social and political meetings, spaces of hospitality and non-hospitality of migrations that relate to Ljubljana urban, social context and beyond. The walk is a collective creation of a »network of relations and multiple viewpoints« across different historical times. Proposed itineraries are temporary processes of learning and unlearning about transitional territories and humans. It is based on site-specific narratives of events and conditions when the humans have had and still need to move due to wars and other natural or man-made disasters, lack of employment, natural and other resources in their own country, as a consequence of the century long colonisation processes and extraction of natural resources in different parts of the Earth.

Re-mapping Ljubljana proposes three itineraries starting at the same time from three locations in the city. These itineraries connect different locations in the city that are representations of transitional territories, spatially and temporally distant from each other but related with the narratives on migration, solidarity, spaces of hospitality and non-hospitality.

Itinerary 1: NOWHERE HOME
Meeting point: Protestant church, Gosposvetska street
Time: 15.30

Itinerary 2: INVISIBLE INHABITANTS OF LJUBLJANA
Meeting point: Švicarija Gallery, Tivoli park
Time: 15.30

Itinerar 3: UPIRANJE, SOLIDARNOST IN NESTALNOST/Itinerary 3: RESISTANCE, SOLIDARITY AND IMPERMANENCY
Meeting point: Monument to Illegal man/woman, Štefanova street 2
Time: 15.30

End of itineraries and after walk conversation: Union Hall of Old Power Station

Collective research, design and the overall production of the project by a group of activists, inhabitants of Ljubljana, academic and non-academic researchers, artists and architects: Aigul Hakimova, Armin Salihović, Armina Pilav, Arne Zupančič, Irfan Beširević, Jernej Kastelic, Matej Kavčič, Miha Turk, Miha Poredoš, Rastko Pečar, Saša Hajzler, Urška Savič, Zaher Amini, Second Home in Exile

The walk was created as a result of a research in the frame of the trans-making project.

International forum trans-making: ON EMOTIONAL MATERIALISM

In the frame of the Festival Mladi Levi we are preparing a summer forum together with the partners of trans-making network – two days, dedicated to lectures, debates, thoughts. Hannah Arendt defines culture as the relationship between society and its objects. As she explains, culture is neither society nor art, nor religion, nor entertainment, nor sports, but the nature of the relation of one to the other, of society to its objects. The trans-making Summer Workshop aims to research the attitude and relations between the society, its ideas, stories, products (including art) and material objects, and to examine the idea of emotional materialism from different angles.

trans‑making is a network of twenty academic, cultural and activist organizations researching the (public) place making activities and artistic practices promoting alternatives for social, economic and democratic renewal. More information: trans-making.eu

Thursday, August 29

9.30-10.00 @ Pionirski dom
Official opening and introduction

10.00-11.30 @ Pionirski dom
Objects Through Fantasm and Trauma
Opening lecture
Speakers: Gökhan Mura (TR), Renata Salecl (SI), Nermin Duraković (BA, DK)

11.45-13.30 @ Pionirski dom
ON EMOTIONAL MATERIALISM – focus on artistic cases and interesting research practices
Round table discussion
Speakers: Alenka Pirman (SI), Kate McIntosh (NZ, BE), Tanja Petrović (SI), Dragan Protić Prota (RS)

15.30-18.00 @ finish at Old Power Station
RE-MAPPING LJUBLJANA: SPACES OF STRUGGLE, SOLIDARITY AND NON-HOSPITALITY
collective city walk of three itineraries
End of itineraries and after walk conversation:
Old Power Station Syndicate Hall

Friday, August 30

9.30-12.30 @ Old Power Station Syndicate Hall
A Contextual and Mapping Workshop (Where? Why?)

14.30-17.00 @ ZRC SAZU and Jakopič Gallery,
Two parallel activities

• (Un)rusted memories: tin cans, memories and emotions
  Workshop @ ZRC SAZU
  Application necessary: tamara.bracic.vidmar@bunker.si

• TABLE SOCIETY
  Open format discussion @ Jakopič Gallery

17.00-18.00 @ Jakopič Gallery
Conclusion

18.00 @ National Library corner
Tanja Radež: Dust Collectors
mysterious composition openning

Concept: Tamara Bračič Vidmar, Nevenka Koprivšek, Pascal Brunet, Fabienne Trotte
Advise: Renata Salecl, Tanja Petrović, Alma R. Selimović, Tanja Radež
Organised by: Tamara Bračič Vidmar, Klara Drnovšek Solina, Polona Vozel ??
Design: Tanja Radež
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana, Relais Culture Europe
Co-produced by: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za kriminologijo pri pravni fakulteti v Ljubljani
With the help of: Pionirski dom, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Jakopičeva galerija
Thanks to: Blaž Peršin, Viktorija Potočnik

This forum is organised as a part of the trans-making project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowka-Curie grant agreement n°734855.

Foto: Tanja Radež

More information: info@bunker.si, 00386 51 269 906

Ursula Martinez: A FAMILY OUTING – 20 YEARS ON (United Kingdom)

Ursula Martinez is already well‑known in Ljubljana – she has been at the Mladi Levi festival with her performance Show Off, and at the City of Women festival with My Stories, Your E-mails. She has also collaborated with Ljubljana‑based Image Snatchers. Martinez likes to incorporate autobiographic elements into her works, so we will let her to autopresent: »I mix theatre concepts, personal experiences, and popular formats in order to create an innovative, challenging, experimental theatre that entertains and reflects our contemporary, postmodern world. At the core of the work is a commitment to exploring humour and what it is to be human«.

Her first theatre performance was Family Outing – this time, she is returning with Family Outing – 20 years on. The family is different after 20 years – but it already turned the Tolstoy’s quote about families upside down in the first performance, since her family is not unhappy, but rather happy in its own unique way. At the time, the critics also wrote that she invented a new genre with the performance; twenty years later, she has retained it – the performance is an emotional polygon: we cry, we laugh, we laugh and cry at the same time – what is life, after all, if not passing while we try to preserve ourselves and our loved ones, while at the same time not lose our sense of humor? In her performance, Martinez speculates with her mother and sister what it will be like after another 20 years, and with such a performance, we can only hope for the third part. Long live Ursula Martinez and her family!

Performed by: Ursula Martinez, Milagros Martinez
Lighting design: Christopher Copland
Directed by: Mark Whitelaw
Written by: Ursula Martinez, Mark Whitelaw

70 minutes

The performance is in English, Slovene summary will be available.

Foto: Hugo Glendinning

Information and ticket reservations: info@bunker.si

Dimitri de Perrot: MYOUSIC with Julian Sartorius (Switzerland)

Dimitri de Perrot is a musician and director; even in theatre, he constructs narrations from sounds – he says he creates »sonic sculptures for theatre spaces using sound, space, light and visuals«. De Perrot created Myousic with his compatriot Julian Sartorius, a man of rhythm who explores the possibilities of his instruments, as well connections of music to other forms of art. Sartorius can be seen on stage with Mark Ribot, his musical installations can also be seen in galleries, he runs an online audiovisual project Morph; he adds an element of collage and modifies an 8‑second audio loop every day.

The primary media of Myousic is sound, but the performance is an integrated sensory experience full of surprises, live scenography, as well as playing with the position of the audience. The sound sources are also stage elements, and voices are playing with us, too. Since there are no actors on the stage, the role of protagonists within the musical sculpture belongs to us, the audience. In a world where our view is constantly being directed and moderated, where we are not able to look away from the screens and the spectacle, an invitation to an experience where we can create our own path through the landscape of sensual stimuli that do not scream, but rather talk to us, is invaluable. In 041 Kulturmagazin, the performance has been described as a surrealism for your ears.

Concept, direction, stage design, music: Dimitri de Perrot
Drums and music: Julian Sartorius
Dramaturgy: Sabine Geistlich
Sound design and electronics: Andy Neresheimer
Light design: Tina Bleuler
Development and construction stage design: Ingo Groher
Costume design: Franziska Born
Oeil extérieur: Phil Hayes
Light direction: Karl Egli
Sound direction: Max Molling
Stage manager: Jorge Bompadre
Technical direction: Pablo Weber
Artistic direction: Dimitri de Perrot
Executive production: Studio DdP
Production: Zimmermann & de Perrot
Co-production: Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg – scène européenne, Migros Kulturprozent, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Südpol Luzern, Theater Chur, Zurich University of the Arts – ZHdK
With support of: Burgergemeinde Bern, Cassinelli-Vogel Stiftung, Corymbo Stiftung, Fondation BNP Paribas, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Kultur Stadt Bern, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Zurich department of cultural affaires, Department of cultural affaires Canton Zurich, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.

The presentation of MYOUSIC in Ljubljana is supported by: Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.

60 minutes

No spoken words.

Foto: Augustin Rebetez

Information and ticket reservations: info@bunker.si

Kate McIntosh: IN MANY HANDS (New Zealand, Belgium)

Kate McIntosh is from New Zealand, but has been creating and living in Europe for more than two decades. She visited Ljubljana in 2007 in the context of Mladi Levi festival with All Natural, a brilliant solo performance in which she charmed the audience by switching between different roles. Recently, she was a guest of the Mladi Levi festival with the performance Worktable, where she prepared a landscape of objects for the audience, which we then disassembled and constructed new objects out of fragments and remains.

The starting points for the performance In Many Hands are similar: how to make an audience work together, engage, along with objects as active participants in the play. A simple and radical concept, as it has been described by Ive Stevenheydens, is a sensory experience which deprives the viewer with one sensory experience and strengthens the others – partly in order to build a community through joint work and research. In Many Hands is »part laboratory, part expedition, part meditation – as it unfolds, visitors take their time to engage and explore as they wish, following their noses and curiosities«. An opportunity to rediscover relationship with people and objects which we encounter and touch every day, but this time they are not a background – they are the main protagonists, together with us.

Concept and Direction: Kate McIntosh
Developed in collaboration with: Arantxa Martinez, Josh Rutter
Presented by: Lucie Schroeder
Sound: John Avery
Light and technique: Joëlle Reyns
Technical direction tour: Michele Piazzi, Koen De Saeger
Artistic advice: Dries Douibi, Gary Stevens
Studio Assistance: Lucie Schroeder
Drawings: Daria Gatti
Producers: Sarah Parolin, Linda Sepp
Production assistance: Jana Durnez, Anneliese Ostertag, Mara Kirchberg
Finances: Laura Deschepper, Ingrid Vranken
Produced by: SPIN
Co-production: PACT Zollverein, Parc de la Villette, Kaaitheater, Vooruit Kunstencentrum, BIT Teatergarasjen, Black Box Teater, Schauspiel Leipzig, théâtre Garonne – scène européenne, far festival des arts vivants, House on Fire Network, Open Latitudes Network
Supported by: Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Nationales Performance Netz (NPN), Pianofabriek kunstenwerkplaats, Tanzfabrik
SPIN podpira BUDA Kunstencentrum v obdobju 2017-2021/SPIN is structurally supported by BUDA Kunstencentrum for the period 2017 – 2021
Thanks to: Tom Bruwier, Martin Pilz, Andrea Parolin

90 minutes

No spoken word.

Foto: Mandy Lyn

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Walid Raad: LES LOUVRES and/or KICKING THE DEAD (Lebanon, United States)

Walid Raad is a visual and performing artist. He teaches at The Cooper Union in New York. His work can be roughly divided into two stages: his work as part of The Atlas Group between 1989 and 2004, revolving around the protracted Lebanese wars (1975–1991); and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow where he engages the emergence of a new artistic infrastructure in the Middle East.

In Kicking the Dead, Raad is an exhibition guide and story-teller. He uses artefacts and data as starting points, and uses different narrative approaches to take these well beyond their documentary value. His stories – though informed by the knowledge of the history of wars and imperialism, the biographies of different scientists, writers and inventors, art history, capital and property dynamics, the art market – make us shift from being fascinated by the lively narrative to being on a guard as to where the narrative moves away from historical and social facts and passes to other kinds of facts (aesthetics, emotional, cultural).

From and with: Walid Raad
Project management: Celesta Rottiers
Technical direction: Herman Sorgeloos
Co-produced by: steirischer herbst in Graz, Art Center Buda in Kortrijk for Gone West – NEXT Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Fast Forward Festival/Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Festival d’Automne à Paris.Support by Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut), Paula Cooper Gallery (New York).
Thanks: Jack V Sturiano, Marcella Lista, Belal Hibri, SITU Studio, Christopher Kissoon, Raphael Fleuriet, Karolien Derwael
In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.

60 minutes

The performance is in English, Slovene summary will be available.

Information and ticket reservations: info@bunker.si

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: VOICE OF NATURE: TRIAL (Portugal, Belgium)

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia has been collaborating with the Mladi levi festival and Bunker for several years through the Imagine 2020 network, which has grown over the years from a network that sought to connect ecology and art with the common goal of raising awareness about climate change into a network that seeks to think in a more intersectional way, and – despite focusing on environment – is trying to think better (or less terrible) future through art, as well as to act. Cruz Correia’s work is not only located at the intersection of activism and art, but also extends to the fields of philosophy, ritual practices, intervention …

Voices of Nature: the Trial is the result of a long research process in which the artist did not remain an observer, nor did she attempt to maintain distance, but delved into struggle and suffering. This performance does not allow the audience the comfort of an observer – they become participants in a performance which is openly trying to establish ecocide as a crime and tries to introduce a different understanding of nature. Cruz Correia asks herself how to transform a mountain or a river into a legal entity, how to grant personhood to non‑humans? Instead of conventional judgements, she experiments with restorative justice practices and transformative processes. The ecocide is still not recognized as a crime in most countries and in international law.

Concept and direction: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
Dramaturgy: Ingrid Vranken
Performance: Caroline Daish
Systemic Constellation Navigator: Luea Ritter
Research contribution: Sébastien Hendrickx
Sound Design: Joao Bento
Light Design: Vinny Jones
Video: Mark Požlep
Advise: Jeroen Peeters, Starhawk
Costume Design: Anne-Catherine Kunz
Legal fact checking: Hendrik Schoukens, Juan Auz
Research documentation: Mark Požlep, Hana Vodeb
Restorative Justice collaborator: Brunilda Pali
Intern: Maíra Wiener
Technician: Alain Decoen
Producer: Tineke de Meyer
Co-Production: Vooruit, Kaaitheater, Bunker, Ljubljana, Workspacebrussels, Het TheaterFestival, t-heater & Circuit X (Roel Verniers Prijs 2017)
Produced by: FoAM
Residency and research: No Lugar, Center for Creative Ecologies /Tj Demos, Artsadmin, BUDA kunstcentrum, WP Zimmer
With the support of: Flemish Community, Imagine 2020, EU – program Ustvarjalna Evropa Kultura, Javni sklad za kulturne dejavnosti
Thanks to: Sarayaku community, UDAPT, TJ Demos, Polly Higgins, Steven Desanghere, Juliane von Crailsheim, Femke Widekop, Nina Vurdelja, coyote, Monika Meysmans, Ivo Aertsen, KU Leuven Institute of, Criminology (LINC).

120 minutes

The performance is in English.

Foto: Mark Požlep, Stephanie Vandevelde

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Tina Satter/Half Straddle: Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription (United States)

Tina Satter is a dramatist, director and teacher. She works internationally and is based in New York, also the home of the Half Straddle collective, managed by Satter, which produces dramas, performances, video and music, and has been seen at venues through US, Europe, Australia and Asia. One of the collective’s focal points and drivers of their aesthetics and content is queer and feminist dynamics.

In one of his novels, Mark Twain put the following words in one of the protagonist’s mouth: »Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t«. It’s hard to say anything more accurate about today’s world of post‑reality and post‑factuality. As suggested by the second part of the title, Is This A Room is a performance where the drama text is a literal transcript of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner at her home. Reality Winner, a former linguist for a US Army contractor, currently serves time in prison, having confessed to whistleblowing – she allegedly provided secret information about Russian interference in the US election to an online publication The Intercept. One year ago, she was sentenced to the longest prison term ever given for such a crime (in order to serve as an example). Can the truth come out in a performance stripped of everything – only top quality acting, operating on an empty stage with nothing more than staging of an already »played out« event? If we cannot outdo reality, let’s give it a stage so that we can look at it. At least a part of it. At least from one side.

Concept and Direction by: Tina Satter
Score by: Sanae Yamada
Costume Design: Enver Chakartash
Set Design: Parker Lutz
Lighting Design: Thomas Dunn
Sculptural Design: Amanda Villalobos
Production and Stage Management: Randi Rivera
Company management: Mariana Catalina
Technical Direction: Andy Sowers
Cast: Emily Davis, Frank Boyd, TL Thompson, Becca Blackwell
Creative Producer: Meiyin Wang
With support of: Howard Gilman Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council & New York State Council on the Arts, premiera/premiered at: The Kitchen, New York City
This engagement is supported by: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding

70 minutes

Performance is in English with Slovene surtitles.

Foto: Paula Court

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Daria Deflorian & Antonio Tagliarini: DIGGING (Italy)

Mladi Levi is a festival which aims to establish long‑term cooperation with artists – Antonio Tagliarini is one of the 6 artists who are returning to the festival with their new works. This time, together with Daria Deflorian. They are both freelance writers, directors, performers and actors, working on their separate projects, and since 2008, also collaborating on joint devised theatre projects.

Digging as a performance is a derivative of Quasi Niente, created by Deflorian and Tagliarini based on Antonioni’s film Red Desert. They buried themselves in archival material and began to discover, archaeology‑style, new and new layers of the film. The film was the first Antonioni’s color film and the last one with the actress Monica Vitti, who plays the main protagonist, wandering around her loneliness and alienation. Digging consists of excavations – a journal of one of the assistant directors, photographs and scenes not included in the final cut, Antonioni’s notes, together with their personal chips and confrontation with their own dilemma – how to create a final product from the material and ideas. Even in archaeological excavations, the most interesting part is the construction of the past reality from the pieces found and filling in the blanks from the ones not found, or the variations of the narrative that can be compiled from the same pieces. A wonderful excavation site.

Project by: Daria Deflorian, Antonio Tagliarini
Written and performed by: Francesco Alberici, Daria Deflorian, Antonio Tagliarini
Literary advisor: Morena Campani
Company manager: Anna Damiani
International distribution and management: Francesca Corona
Photography: Elizabeth Carecchio
Co-produced by: A.D., Festival di Santarcangelo 2018
In collaboration with: Italian Institute of Culture, Paris, Theatre Residency Carrozzerie | Not Roma
With support of: Italijanski kulturni inštitut Ljubljana, Vivere ALL’Italiana

60 minutes

The performance is in Italian with Slovene and English subtitles.

Foto: Elizabeth Carecchio

Information and ticket reservations: info@bunker.si