MLADI LEVI FESTIVAL: Ivana Müller & Bojana Kunst:MENDING THE INVISIBLE

interventions in public space and performance

How can a city be mended? How to connect the different realities that make up Ljubljana and find what is common? This practice can be imagined as a kind of mycelium of encounters, performative acts, learning processes, storytelling sessions, night wakes… through which, in collaboration with local artists, poets, advocates for the rights of all living beings, disillusioned architects and other discrete activists of the invisible, we create and share new intimate utopias of the city based on the notion of ‘repair’, as a way of exercising the collective imagination.
Choreographer Ivana Müller (presenting for the fifth time at the Mladi Levi festival) and theorist and dramaturge Bojana Kunst together with a team of local collaborators, explore the idea of healing and sharing a city as our common body through performative actions, conversations and workshops with local collectives and associations. These encounters constitute the basis for the production of a “new” map , a large embroidery whose threads will record the stories of the diverse “storytellers”, weave narratives of cities and offer possibilities for future repairs that are open and available for appropriation.

Interventions in public space:
Monday, 26 August:
9.00 Park Tabor
10.00 Trubarjeva 19
11.00 Stari trg (between Romeo and Julia restaurants)
18.00 Kongresni trg (public toilets)
21.00 NUK II parking lot
Tuesday, 27 August, interventions in public space:
9.00 Gruberjeva brv (under Golovec hill) – meeting point
19.00 Penzion Pod Lipo (back side)

Performances in ŠD Tabor hall:
Thursday, 29 August at 7.00 p.m.
Friday, 30 August at 5.00 p.m.
Saturday, 31 August at 4.00 p.m.

Concept and realization: Ivana Müller in/and Bojana Kunst
In collaboration with: Ana Čigon, Ajda Bračič, Urban Belina, Klara Drnovšek Solina
Embroiderers of the new map: Ayşe Baloğlu, Birsen Arslan, Urban Belina, Albin Bobnar, Oskar Cergolj, Jaka Grm, Meryem Işık, Petra Korent, Nino Kovač, Filip Kračman, Žiga Martinjak, Jelena Radić, Selma Yazıcı
Storytellers from Ljubljana: Nada Bohinc, Štefka Burger, Milan Dugandžija, Marija Đorđević, Viktor Erjavec, Marija Golob Hvala, Ana Grmek, Marija (Mija) Jezeršek, Cvetka Konjar, Miloš Kosec, Miroslav Meden, Nevenka Miško, No-Border Craft, Gaja Osole, Bojana Piškur, PLAC, Mimi Pučko, Emilija Razpotik, Danica Sretenović (kolektiv Krater), Stanislava Stanić, Neja Tomšič, Tadeja Verdnik, Rok Vevar, Brigita Vtič, Ružica Vučković
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana, Maska
Producer: Klara Drnovšek Solina
Co-produced by: ORLA, Le Pacifique Grenoble
Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana
Thanks to: Dom upokojencev Center – enota Tabor, NoBorderCraft, Slovenska filantropija, Anica Albreht

Photo: Nada Žgank, Ana Čigon

Performance and interventions are in Slovene and English.