City of Women: Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar, Urška Brodar: The Art of Living: The Act of Killing

You return to the countryside. You return to preach your gospel: art. With fire and blade, if you must. You emancipate, feminize, depatriarchalize and educate the women—hungry for contemporary performance. You draw them into artistic practice, build a community, face the tangled roots of their convictions— and then… Then, your community is shaken by an event no art can contain. An event that resists language, that defies response. It exists only as erasure, as death, as the void. So you begin the work. You borrow a drone, hire a digger, take a camera, bring shovels, gather spikes, buy a climbing harness, build a puppet, prepare the land. You call on allies: neighbors, cousins, students. You put on trousers. You take up shovels. You stand before the houses. You raise your signs. You claim your ground. You hoist the flag. This is what stands before you: The decolonization of the countryside.

Authors and performers: Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar, Urška Brodar
Costume design: Olja Grubić
Set design: Meta Grgurevič
Video: Vid Hajnšek
Photography: Andrej Firm
Music: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design and operation: Borut Bučinel
Sound engineer: Marjan Sajovic
Video technician: Peter Ban
Coproduction: Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, City of Women
In collaboration: Zavod Rizoma Čermožiše, Bunker and Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Ljubljana.