Heather Ackroyd / Dan Harvey: ON THE FIELD
The platform by the Slovene etnographic museum
UK based artists Ackroyd & Harvey were creating a specially commissioned work for The Mladi levi Festival. The artists are renowned for their extraordinary bio-chemical living photographs, they have shown in museums and contemporary galleries world-wide, and have presented work in diverse contexts outside of the exhibition space. (more…)
Mladi levi festival: Stefan Kaegi/ Rimini Protokoll: RADIO MUEZZIN
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Muezzins are special people. They are those mysterious voices calling the faithful to prayer, echoing from the minarets of mosques across Muslim countries five times a day.
Muezzins called out for worshippers to pray from the top of minarets until the 1950s and were often blind so that they could not peep over their neighbours’ fences. For quite some time now the azan, the call to prayer, has been performed simply in the mosque with a microphone in hand, while the chant itself echoes from loudspeakers. (more…)
Mladi Levi Festival: IN SEARCH OF THE GREEN QUARTER (exhibition)
photo: Aleksander S. Ostan
Location: Hostel Celica
Saturday, August 21st at 5.00 pm, exhibited until Monday, August 30th
This exhibition represented an epilogue in the process which we undertook together with the students from the Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts and their mentor, an architect Aleksander S. Ostan. We focused on exploring the presence, difficulties and qualities of the green surfaces in the Tabor local district. According to findings of a research performed by Bunker together with Matjaž Uršič and Špela Drnovšek Zorko in the beginning of this year, the majority of inhabitants and passers-by in this part of the city seem to miss the greenery and a space to rest and chat casually. This exhibition was not only about presenting our findings, but marked the beginning (and continuation) of an effort to turn the Tabor local district green and to thereby invited the visitors to participate in thought and action.
Essential part of the exhibition was a walking map of the Tabor local district, featuring several spaces and sight-viewing spots, which represented a crossroad of various green stories. The exhibition took place in live version by four different tours across the neighbourhood, guided by special guests.
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Mladi levi festival: THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND FUNCTIONALITY IN THE PUBLIC SPACE (round table discussion)
Foto: Aleksander S. Ostan
Location: Platform by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Every period has certain criteria regarding either beauty or functionality, which pervade and thus leave their stamp on a place in time. What is the vision and the image of the Tabor local district, which is considered to lack any real identity due to its fleeting and passing spirit?
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Mladi Levi festival: A LOOK BY THE WAY
foto: Aleksander S. Ostan
by Aleksander S. Ostan
A relaxed walk across Tabor will shed light on different perceptions of the quarter with a special emphasis placed on various ways of seeing and reading its green surfaces: from those well arranged to those deserted, from those most evident to those hidden to the eye, from those public to those privately secluded… All of these surfaces will be observed with an eye encompassing both the whole picture as well as every detail. (more…)
Mladi levi festival: Zachary Oberzan- YOUR BROTHER. REMEMBER?
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
For my brother who taught me how to act…
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Mladi levi festival: Opstaele / Ensemble Leporello- NUIT ARABE
Location: Mini teater Ljubljana
Dirk Opstaele is an extraordinary narrator. He is an actor, director, and choreographer, directing and performing in various performances, either in those of the Leporello group or in operas and different musical performances across Europe. (more…)
Mladi Levi festival: IN SEARCH OF THE LOST GARDEN
foto: Gregor Gobec
by Ira Zorko
An improvised walk across Tabor and Šempeter with an architect, permaculturalist and a storyteller Ira Zorko, once again returning to the completely changed area of his childhood. He used to live at Rozmanova 2, in the Ravnikar apartment building in the height of the St Peter church bells. (more…)
Mladi levi festival: Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch- HOT PEPPER, AIR CONDITIONER AND THE FAREWELL SPEECH
Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Toshiki Okada belongs to the new generation of young Japanese directors whose work conveys a predominant preoccupation with contemporary Japanese society, its pitfalls and shortcomings. (more…)
Mladi levi festival: De Utvalgte- SKUGGAR
Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
The Norwegian theatre group De Utvalgte is returning to The Mladi Levi Festival with a poetic performance entitled Skuggar, the shadows. It is based on the text of one of the most interesting contemporary Norwegian dramatists, Jon Fosse, whose works have been performed by the De Utvalgte collective numerous times. (more…)