Betontanc Ltd.: SO FAR AWAY introduction to ego-logy (Slovenia)
Sunday, August 21st at 10 pm
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Ecomania
Ecology is, naturally, on the list of burning contemporary topics. One of the most difficult tasks an artist may be facing, therefore, is attempting to create a work of art on this utterly commercialized subject. True enough, it is essential and necessary to talk about it, but there has simply been too much talk about it. Everyone is trying to do something and no one does much. Currently no explicit plan for the future exists. Nothing changes for the better. Meanwhile, the ice is melting, the weather is changing and the animals are dying out… Is there any hope left at all? What we are seeing now is one of the most complex situations mankind has ever encountered. A tragedy? A farce? An absurd?
Betontanc Ltd. (Katarina Stegnar, Branko Jordan and Primož Bezjak) have nevertheless succeeded in making a brilliant performance on what it is that lies over there – so far away, conveying that ecology and egology are virtually one and the same thing.
The performance could be defined as physical theatre, a burlesque, an Animal Planet documentary, a public lecture in a popular-scientific format, full of irony, hard data and unexpected twists.
Consumerism functions as the Demiurge of action; everything can be easily bought, even clear conscience, which you can even have delivered to your doorstep.
Betontanc Ltd. do not intellectualize, but they are smart. They might not be realistic, but they are very much real. They may be kind, but they are a direct poke in the eye nevertheless. People say there is no utopia, just a very trivial reality. But still, let us paraphrase John Steinbeck: utopia will always be a massive hole one can look into, if only he dares to do so.
Authors and performers: Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan, Katarina Stegnar
As Sir David Attenborough: Stane Tomazin
Music: Dead Tongues
Costume design: Mateja Benedetti
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Light design: Tomaž Štrucl
Video: Miloš Srdić, Teo Rižnar
Graphic design: Saša Kladnik
Masks made by: Brane Drekonja
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Executive producer: Maja Vižin
Producer: Samo Selimović
Production: Bunker, Ljubljana
Duration: 60 minutes
The performance is in Slovene with English subtitles.
Price of tickets: 10 € (7 €- secondary, primary school and university students, seniors)
Tickets available an hour prior to a event at Festival venues.
Bookings and information: +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si
