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VIA NOVA
– Balkan art
Mar 1 / 8pm / Alfred ve dvoře
TWO PERFORMANCES PRODUCED BY VIA NEGATIVA / SLOVENIA
Both performances are in Croatian and Serbian language with English subtitles
WHAT JOSEPH BEUYS TOLD ME WHILE I WAS LYING DEAD IN HIS LAP
Based on material from performance OUT (created by Boris Kadin a Bojan Jablanovec, Via Negativa 2008)
Boris Kadin, a versatile and internationally active performance artist and performer from Dubrovnik, who in his solo projects often radicalises the artist’s position. Since 2007 he has been cooperating with Via: Not Like Me, Out. By his eruptive imagination and explosive presence Boris is always “hunting for the real” in his performances. In this performance he is questioning the relationship between the artist and the interpretation of his art work and stages his own relationship to classification, analysis and contemporary art theory. Every interpretation of an art work, whether it “fits” or “totally fails”, inevitably comprises the artists’ context. Boris Kadin stages an artist that is trapped in the hell of constant rationalisations and interpretations.
text B. Kadin, B. Jablanovec
performed by B. Kadin
directed by B. Jablanovec
mask created by Sanela Milošević
music selected by B. Kadin
30 min
GAME WITH TOOTHPICKS
Based on performance material from NOT LIKE ME (Via Negativa, 2007)
The main theme of the performance is the perception of an art work and its relationship with the critique. The artist is fatally connected to the response to his work, because he sees his message reflected back to him. Game With Toothpicks is a performance about self understanding that takes upon itself the right to deal with “exterior” as if being its “interior”. The performers adopt two radically different positions: while Kristian Al Droubi still persists in the game as such and perceives it literally, Boris Kadin steps out of the game and plays only the game about the game and because of the game. In spite of all this, the most interesting thing is the meeting point between the exterior and interior – and the wound that this cris-cross opens again every time.
created by Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi and Bojan Jablanovec
text by B. Kadin, B. Jablanovec
performed by B. Kadin and K. Al Droubi
music selected and directed by B. Jablanovec
video by B. Jablanovec
30 min
price for both performances 100 / 200 Kč
Co-produced by Glej Theatre Ljubljana, financed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Department of Culture of the City of Ljubljana.