Encyclopédie de la parole / Joris Lacoste: SUITE N° 2 (FR)

Photo: Jose Caldeira

Sunday, August 28th, 9 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

Slovene philosopher Mladen Dolar explored, philosophically, the voice beyond meaning, beyond aesthetic pleasure, beyond presence, voice as an object residing in the space in-between, between outside and inside, body and soul, nature and culture. He recognizes the voice as a symptom of being not existing seamless within, of being that is, thus, in conflict with itself.

This precise terrain of intermediateness or internal conflict, where voices are not mere transponders of sense/meaning and yet still not aestheticized into »music«, where the voice is grounded fully neither in thought – message, nor body – sound, is the grounds where the four choral suites of Joris Lacoste reside, drawing content from the Encyclopédie de la parole (Encyclopaedia of Speech), a collective project compiling existing recordings expressing various forms of locution. The first in the cycle, Suite no. 1 ABC, focused on cases from the basic register patterns of human speech: learning to speak, babbling, the way we enjoy foreign languages and talking in general. Suite No. 2, created by Lacoste in tandem with composer Pierre-Yves Macé, assumes the form of words in action; from the most intimate to the notorious, expressing the complete spectrum of emotional states, again in a number of different languages. If the first suite was a symphony, the second one is a sonata – presented by five extraordinary performers.

Concept: Encyclopédie de la parole
Composition and direction: Joris Lacoste
Music: Pierre-Yves Macé
Performing: Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Emmanuelle Lafon, Nuno Lucas, Barbara Matijević, Olivier Normand
Assistance and collaboration: Elise Simonet
Lighting and video design, technical management: Florian Leduc
Sound: Stéphane Leclercq
Costumes: Ling Zhu
Video coder: Thomas Köppel
Video assistant: Diane Blondeau
Translation, project manager: Marie Trincaretto
Proofreading and corrections: Julie Etienne
Vocal coaches: Valérie Philippin et Vincent Leterme
Language coaches: Azhar Abbas, Amalia Alba Vergara, Mithkal Alzghair, Sabine Macher, Soren Stecher-Rasmussen, Ayako Terauchi Besson
Invited archive collectors: Constantin Alexandrakis, Mithkal Alzghair, Ryusei Asahina, Adrien Bardi Bienenstock, Judith Blankenberg, Guiseppe Chico, Manuel Coursin, David-Alexandre Guéniot, Léo Gobin, Haeju Kim, Monika Kowolik, Federico Paino, Pauline Simon, Ayako Terauchi Besson, Helene Roolf, Anneke Lacoste, Max Turnheim, Nicolas Mélard, Tanja Jensen, Ling Zhu, Valerie Louys, Frederic Danos, Barbara Matijevic, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Olivier Normand, Nuno Lucas
Production and administration: Dominique Bouchot, Marc Pérennès
Project development: Judith Martin, Ligne Directe
Produced by: Echelle 1:1 (with the support from Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication /DRAC Ile-de-France).
Coproduction: T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers/Festival d’Automne à Paris, Asian Culture Complex – Asian Arts Theater Gwangju, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Théâtre Agora-Seinendan, La Villette – résidences d’artistes 2015, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Rotterdam Schouwburg.

Suite N°2 is co-produced by NXTSTP (with the support of Creative Europe Program). With the help of Institut Français and its programs Théâtre Export and CIRCLES, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, l’Usine, Scène conventionnée – Tournefeuille.

Creation Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, May 2015.

85 minutes

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Christiane Jatahy: #THEWALKINGFOREST.DOC (BR)

Photo: Cia Vértice de Teatro

Sunday, August 28th, 4 pm – 8.30 pm
DUM

The work of Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy is characterized by dialogue between artistic spheres and – as she calls them herself – new creative dispositifs. Jatahy found success already with her performance Julia, a simultaneous film and theatre adaptation of Strindberg, as well as having opened last year’s Mladi Levi with a contemporary version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, a performance doubling as film.

The outset of #thewalkingforest.doc is another timeless classic, Macbeth, his lust for power so easily transposed into the contemporary zeitgeist. The focus, though, is here reversed – we’ve been inundated with stories of rotten, morally bankrupt rulers; the title hints at a fresh angle: Macbeth, let’s remember, scoffs at the prophecy Birnam Wood would march against Dunsinane Castle on account of failing to comprehend metaphor. Herein lies the challenge extended by the performance – what about us? Do we recognize ourselves in the forest, are we even capable of insurrection? Ljubljana plays the setting of Jatahy’s video installation, an amalgamation of the stories of people locked in conflict with authority; a mosaic of pre-recorded narratives, tales belonging to refugees to Slovenia, stories performed by local artists – all victims of a Macbeth of some sort or another.

Author: Christiane Jatahy
Inspired by: Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Creation and live direction: Christiane Jatahy
Director of photography: Paulo Camacho
Live editing: Felipe Norkus
Performers: Andraž Jug, Gal Oblak, Sara Janašković, Miranda Trnjanin, Safiullah Ebadi, Ghasem Zarei
Producer and tour manager: Henrique Mariano
Co-production: Le Centquatre, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Tempo_Festival, SESC São Paulo
Cia Vértice de Teatro is sponsored by Petrobras.
Local producers: Katarina Slukan, Mojca Jug
Technical support: Janko Oven

Videoinstallation is in English.

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Waldemar Tatarczuk: UP (PL)

Photo: Waldemar Tatarczuk

Saturday, August 27th 8.00 – 8.20 pm
Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

Collective memory resides in two big narratives: history and mythology. With both of these, though – just as our own personal memories – we have abandoned the battle for objectivity, for the one truth, a single shared understanding. What about personal memories, then, and their relation to the collective?

Memory remains an enigma; despite the fact science is gradually deciphering its laws and procedures. It stays a mysterious process in which information imprinted in us during consciousness is transformed into cerebral databases and, even more interestingly, woven into our personal stories. Perhaps, memory in some sense functions exactly like the strategies of art creation.

Waldemar Tatarczuk is a Polish artist currently residing in Lublin. He creates performances and installations, is an art curator, was the founder of the Performance Art Centre in Lublin, and is currently the director of the Labyrinth Gallery (Galeria Labirynt). “The essential substance of my performances is memory. Memory as a phenomenon as well as memory embedded in material objects, traces, that which remains. Memory that refers to the past while contradicting the future. The question of traces that remain, of where they are actually written, refers to what is left after every event as well. It refers to memory and how it evolves, how memories become deformed and blurred, replaced by other, more vivid ones.”

ScriptedReality: THE PIECE CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF PURPOSEFULNESS (DE)

Photo: ScriptedReality

Friday, August 26th, 9.30 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana

ScriptedReality is an open collective, appearing on this occasion with a line-up consisting of Tilman Aumüller, Christopher Krause, Arne Salasse and Ruth Schmidt. The collective features members of various backgrounds who originally met in Giessen, a global centre for aspiring theatre contributors. Their name references a TV genre, appropriated by the creative squad to be mirrored into a contradiction of its essential ideological narrative.

In the performance, one they refer to as a theatre essay, the collective addresses the purpose of arts and economics, questioning whether they have an external purpose or appear intrinsically self-serving. The subject matter is the economic doctrine or philosophy of Friedrich Hayek, its consequences on the contemporary state of the world. Following an introductory explanation, the collective (along with the audience) embarks on a joint exorcism of Hayek’s doctrine and the painting of a new plan. A bold strategy, fit for young lions in an era where the dominant narrative of neoliberal economics presents itself as immutable.

Authors: Tilman Aumüller, Christopher Krause, Arne Salasse, Ruth Schmidt
Dramaturgical advice: Jacob Bussmann
Translation: Aran Kleebaur
Co-production: Hessische Theater Akademie, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, ScriptedReality
Translation into Slovene: Ajda Šoštarič

100 minutes

The performance is in English with Slovene surtitles.

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Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS (SI)

Photo: Toni Soprano

Friday, August 26th, 8 pm PREMIERE
Saturday, August 27th, 9 pm
ŠD Tabor

The authorial poetics of collective Beton Ltd. (Katarina Stegnar, Branko Jordan, Primož Bezjak) is characterized by a search for intimate entries into the global issues – their position is often personal – a search for new, hybrid forms of performing, and a mastery of performing techniques. Ich kann nicht anders is their fifth performance, where the counterpoint between the total intimacy and the echoes of the global events reminds us of a thesis by Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat, that the real revolution is always a revolution of everything, all social interactions, even the most intimate ones.

The world around us is saturated with change, and if there is one constant, it is currently uncertainty. We anticipate changes, but it is not yet clear what they might be. One of the possible strategies to combat the deafening noise of the world is to retreat into one’s own world. Not to surrender, but to defend one’s own intimate territory against the outside world. A retreat into intimacy, where freedom is possible and where utopia is – now.

Devised and directed by: Beton Ltd.
Performers: Katarina Stegnar, Branko Jordan, Primož Bezjak
Music: Dead Tongues
Scenography: sonda4, Toni Soprano
Costume design: Mateja Benedetti
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Dramaturgical collaborator: Urška Brodar
Technical director: Andrej Petrovčič
Technical collaborator: Martin Lovšin
Executive producer: Maja Vižin
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
The performance was made possible by: Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije, Mestna občina Ljubljana
With help of: Elektro Ljubljana, d.d., Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Thanks to: GT22, Športno društvo Tabor, Aljoša Cetinski, Mini Teater, Uroš Kaurin, Nathalie Horvat

75 minutes

Performance is in Slovene with English translation.

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No!Training Lab: VARIATIONS TO SLOWNESS: TIME-OUT 2 (SI)

Photo: Sunčan Stone

Thursday, August 25th, 9 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana

The team of the performance Variations to Slowness: TIME OUT 2 coalesced around the creative and exploratory process sparked by Katja Legin. Within the framework of the No!Training Lab, the authors, all of them accomplished Slovene dancers, choreographers and performers, engage in dialogue with the novel Slowness by Milan Kundera in a three-year-long multi-phase work of art.

Slowness was the first novel Milan Kundera wrote in his second language, French, launching him into the unexplored terrain of »exile arithmetic«. The collective of the performance likewise ventures to lands unknown, a new language, undertaking the challenge of staging a novel in dance performance form. At times, they enter the novel’s narrative, as if possessing the spirit of the characters and the scenes, yet never sliding into the banality of enacting the story, illustrating the characters or recounting their fates. Instead, what they trace are the dynamics of the protagonists’ longings, their internal motors, and their constantly elusive pleasures. On the very axis of slowness-quickness, Kundera, and to an even greater extent the performance, materialize the issue of pleasure.

Authors and performers: No!training Lab (Barbara Kanc, Barbara Ribnikar, Jan Rozman, Kaja Lorenci, Katja Legin, Nataša Živković)
Live music: Joži Šalej
Sound design: SZ3
Lighting design: Tomi Janežič
Costume design consultant: Marina SremacScenography and costume design: No!training Lab
Produced by: Studio za raziskavo umetnosti igre
Partners: Zavod Federacija, Španski Borci, PTL, Flota, Nagib

70 minutes

The performance is in English.

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Smaal Tokk: concert (SI)

Photo: Miran Bratuš

Tuesday, August 23rd, 8.30 pm
Park Tabor

Smaal Tokk hails from Wajdušna, one of the few Slovene towns that (colloquially) starts with the letter W. A portent of the quirky singularity of this enigmatic musician, flashing ironically the image of a gangsta rapper, spitting with a delivery reminiscent of spoken word laid over beats somewhat alien to hip-hop. A pleasant change, nonchalant licks devoid of pretentious gangsta rap posturing or the brutal expressiveness and critical furor of rap. Smaal Tokk excels in the domain of the homely – wife Radmila, the torrent of bills, the everlasting conflict between home team and those other guys, the art of producing offspring … He eludes definition, standing neither for parody nor self-seriousness, uncannily endearing; walking the razor-thin line between pop entertainment and subtle social criticism. Perhaps that’s the space where his message best resonates? Or perhaps there’s no »message«, only the straightforward account of a man whose chief advisor is his wife, whose anger most easily flares at those who are grumpy just because.

Band
Vocal: Smaal Tokk
Keyboards: Marko Boh
Bass guitar: Klemen Kotar
Percussions: Enos Kugler – bobni
Flute, back vocals: Blažka Oberstar
Tenor saxophone, back vocals: Ana Šimenc

The concert is free.

Mallika Taneja: BE CAREFUL (IN)

Photo: David Wohlschlag

Tuesday, August 23rd , 7.30 pm
Thursday, August 25th, 7.30 pm
Glej, the Theatre

Mallika Taneja is an Indian actress and director, described by a professor of the Kirori Mal College as an artist characterized by a precise attunement to the world, sensitivity to injustice and a refined awareness of social and personal space.

Be Careful, a miniature perhaps deserving the feminist label, deals with the concept of women’s safety. In part, it participates in the current heated and difficult struggle against assaults on women in India, where the perpetrators and silent majority regularly shift blame onto the victims, perhaps the way they dress or present themselves. Taneja scorns this logic and – just as her own person, too – exposes it bare; ripping pretence from the hypocritical dominant discourse by chanting titbits of advice given to women online on the subject of being prudent, staying safe. Clothes (or the absence thereof) are essential carriers of political and identity markers. What do Taneja’s have to say?

Devised and performed: Mallika Taneja
Production Support: Suhasini Taneja
This performance was first created at the Tadpole Repertory as part of their show ‘NDLS’.

30 minutes

The performance is in English.

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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia and Benjamin Verdonck: THE SECRET EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATORY FOR GLOBAL MATTERS (BE, PT)

Photo: Benjamin Verdonck

August 22nd at 9 pm, August 25th at 8.30 pm, August 26th at 9 pm at The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 
August 23rd at 8.00 pm at Park Tabor

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia is an artist at the crossroads of visual arts, performance, interventions and environmental issues. She develops methods of participatory action, considering the potentials for paradigm change. Benjamin Verdonck will be Mladi levi’s guest for the third time. The foundation of his theatre projects, public space interventions and publications is the exploration of the modes of operation that can provide ways out of hyper-production and incessant mobility.

Cruz Correia and Verdonck will set up their headquarters in Ljubljana, lay down the blueprint of their mutual endeavour and then execute a daily artistic action for four days, presenting it to the festival audience each evening. They operate on the premise that change is possible, that even micro-change and mini-gestures matter, and that it is essential to think about what comes next, not only what is. Glimpses of the future without apocalyptic baggage.

Devised and presented by: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Benjamin Verdonck
Local producer: Mojca Jug
Technical  implementation: Grega Mohorčič

The interventions are in English.

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

Anestis Azas & Prodromos Tsinikoris: CLEAN CITY (GR)

Photo: Christina Georgiadou

Monday, August 22nd, at 7.30 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

Clean City by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris, directors vacillating between Greece and Germany, challenges the rhetoric of »cleaning« that manifested at the pinnacle of the Greek crisis, blaming migrants for all the »dirt« in society. They address it in literal manner, seeking to answer who in fact cleans the city in concrete reality. The result is a documentary performance portraying five cleaning ladies that came to Greece from Albania, South Africa, the Philippines, Bulgaria and Moldova.

A performance illuminating the invisible workers of the world who keep the globe spinning while at the same time paying society’s debt – incurred in return for the chance to partake in the prosperity of the Greek milieu, multiplied by the recent crisis crashing first and foremost on their shoulders. A poignant performance, sobering yet full of humour, for the protagonists’ vitality is unbreakable, their sacrifice translating into an investment in the future generation: progeny. Their fates express a certain universality, not due to the ubiquitous presence of the cleaner’s profession but because their tribulations are so often reminiscent of our own personal trials.

Research, text and direction: Anestis Azas, Prodromos Tsinikoris
Performing: Mabel Matchidiso Mosana, Rositsa Pandalieva, Fredalyn Resurreccion, Drita Shehi, Valentina Ursache
Dramaturgy: Margarita Tsomou
Set and costume design: Eleni Stroulia
Assistant to the set costume designer: Zaira Falirea Oblikovanje svetlobe/Lighting design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Music: Panagiotis Manouilidis
Video: Nikos Pastras
Assistant directors: Ioanna Valsamidou, Liana Taousiani
Production manager: Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos
Video appearance: Nelly Kambouri
Puppet construction: Yiannis Katranitsas
Coproduced by: Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens, Goethe-Institut (v okviru projekta EUROPOLY/in the context of EUROPOLY project)
Touring support: Onassis Culturall Centre – Athens

75 minutes

The performance is in Greek with Slovene and English surtitles.
Translation of the performance: Polona Vozel

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