Katarina Stegnar: DOUBLE GAME

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

Lecture Performance

It isn’t possible. It isn’t possible for me to react in any other way but with bitter cynicism, when I hear about the plan to save the world. The plan, which is full of diagrams, pictures and numbers, the scientific plan, the factual plan. On the other hand I know, me, Katarina Stegnar, that the cynicism is only a bad defence mechanism protecting me from doing what I have to do. It is necessary for people to know that such a plan exists. It is my duty. It is my calling. In fact I am playing a double agent, playing a double game.

Credits

Author: Katarina Stegnar
Performers: Katarina Stegnar & Katarina Stegnar
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Light design and technical direction: Igor Remeta
Producer: Maja Vižin
Thanks to: Mateja Benedetti, Primož Bezjak, Matej de Cecco, Tomaž Grom, Bojan Jablanovec, Branko Jordan, Teja Kleč, Barbara Kukovec, Grega Zorc
Commissioned and co-produced by Imagine 2020 – Arts and Climate Change and Bunker, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Performances

Premiere:
23rd May 2013 at 8.00 pm, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Critics

N. Jelesijević: Shizophrenia of a performance, Radio študent, 28. 5. 2013 (pdf 272 KB)

Video

Video, editor: Gregor Gobec

Photos

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

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