Filip Mramor, Lana Krmelj: CONTEXT OF CONTEXTS
The event is part of a two-day cycle
A LIE IS DEAD, IS EVERYTHING PERMITTED?
Opening up the terrain of artistic landscapes between fiction and fact
presentation of a lecture-performance in progress
Context is an evolving performance that builds on the presentations of artists and collectives who have worked at the Old Power Station in Ljubljana. As part of the Bunker Institute’s support programme of the same name, eight presentations or portraits in the form of exhibitions and installations have been created over the past four years. These were dedicated to artistic bodies of work and, each in their own way, sought to contextualise the artists’ archives. The performance-in-progress focuses on information excluded from academic archiving, centring on data and fragments that appear, at first glance, trivial and mundane. By incorporating fiction, it attempts to outline the Context of Contexts, thereby uncovering unexpected connections and surprising itself in the process.
Feedback session, part of a weekend dedicated to the relationship between fiction and facts in theatre, will serve as the first opportunity for the audience to engage with the material. It will function as an open rehearsal at the beginning of the process, designed to test the mechanisms and themes of the emerging production.
First responders: Jernej Potočan, Matej Stupica, Katarina Stegnar, Neja Tomšič, Zala Dobovšek
Lana Krmelj (2001) is a Master’s student specialising in Dramaturgy and Performing Arts; she holds Bachelor’s degrees in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, as well as in Slovenian Studies. She also studied at Charles University in Prague and at Freie Universität Berlin during her degree. Her interests lie in various areas of theatre production, including dramaturgy, directing, and theatre studies, particularly the intersection of the documentary and the autofictional in theatre, as well as exploring the concept of community in durational performances. She collaborated on the project Now, Suddenly, I Was a Creature of Vice (Maska, 2025) as a co-author of the concept. She writes reviews for the Sigledal portal and has had two articles reviewing the Mladi Levi festival published on the online media outlet Aplavz. As part of the 60th Borštnik Meeting Festival, she co-created the festival blog. She is also a prose editor at Nebulae magazine, a member of the editorial committee for the AGRFT student symposium, and a member of the Bunker Institute Council.
Filip Mramor was born in Ljubljana in 1998. While studying at Poljane Grammar School, he was a member of the Poljanski oder theatre group, where he received the Special Jury Award for Best Male Performance at the 56th Linhart Festival for his role as Lazarus in Gregor Strniša’s Žabe (The Frogs). He also performed in productions at the Pionirski dom Centre for Youth Culture. He won the Best Improviser Award in the 20th season of ŠILA (High School Impro League). In 2017, he began studying stage acting at Ljubljana’s Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), under Jernej Lorenci, Jernej Šugman, and later Branko Jordan. He graduated with the role of Perkmandelc in Dane Zajc’s Jagababa, directed by Živa Bizovičar. During his studies, he took part in the SNT Drama Ljubljana’s production of Ljubezen (Love), directed by Luka Marcen; the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre’s Skrivno društvo KRVZ (Secret Society KRVZ): and SLG Celje’s Kozlovska sodba v Višnji Gori (The Famous Goat Trial). He played in the short film Nedeljsko jutro (Sunday Morning), directed by Martin Turk, and in the series Mamin dan (Mom’s Day). He is a founding member of the Počemučka theatre collective, with which he created the productions Piano and Screaming (AGRFT Academy Studio), Under Construction (Glej Theatre) which received a special jury award at the 52nd Week of Slovenian Drama and 150 BPM. He completed a Master’s degree in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). His master’s thesis performance was presented at the 2025 Mladi Levi festival.