Via Negativa: PHYSIS

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Video
1h 18min / Eng subtitles.
You can register for viewing here and you will get link to the film.
“A state? What is that? The state, I call it, where the slow suicide of all — is called life.”
Democracy has become a catacomb of the healthy, responsible and normal. The state needs people who are weak enough to become dependent and obedient enough to remain useful. There is no democracy for sickness and dying, no democracy for visions of a rebellious spirit or for the trembling of a weak heart – there is no democracy for nature.
“For the superfluous ones was the state devised! There, where the state ceases — there only commences the man who is not superfluous.”
But nature, though accustomed to die, still has the power to resist the brutality of civilization; and civilization, though willing to risk everything for its own self-preservation, still has enough time to stop the terror of the “good and just.”
“There, where the state ceases — pray look there, my brothers!” Friedrich Nietzsche
We dedicate the performance to Friedrich Nietzsche, who suffered a nervous breakdown on 3 January 1889, and a series of strokes after the year 1898, which partially paralysed him, leaving him unable to speak or walk. After contracting pneumonia he died on 25 August 1900. The diagnosis of his “mental illness” is still the subject of medical debate.
Credits:
CONCEIVED BY Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec
CONCEPT & DIRECTION Bojan Jablanovec
CHOREOGRAPHY Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Grega Zorc
Contains fragments from the book by Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Tako je govoril Zaratursta; Slovenska matica, Ljubjana 1984; translated by Janko Moder)
SUPERFLUOUS Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Sara Horžen, Olja Grubić, Loup Abramovici, Ena Kurtalić, Rok Kravanja, Tina Habun (Tjaša Črnigoj), Timotej Novaković, Neža Blažič, Nina Goropečnik, Rea Vogrinčič, Daniele Tenze, Jernej Škof, Aleksandra Kmetič, Mitja Lovše, Vesna Hauschild and Lena
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN Eduardo Raon
Contains also fragments from works by Jacques Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers – Galop infernal, Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Les oiseaux dans la charmille, Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser – Overture, Dean Kay – Kelly Gordon: That’s Life
VOICES Gallina, vocal group, Ana Erčulj, conductor
LIGHT DESIGN Igor Remeta
COSTUMOGRAPHY Olja Grubić
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & PUBLIC RELATIONS Sara Horžen
PRODUCER Špela Trošt
PRODUCTION Via Negativa – VN Lab, 2020
FINANCIAL SUPPORT Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana
Video:
SHOOTING DIRECTOR & EDITING Vid Hajnšek
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Rok Kajzer Nagode
CAMERAS Rok Kajzer Nagode, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Špela Škulj
SOUND DESIGN Eduardo Raon
LIGHT DESIGN Igor Remeta
BOOM OPERATOR Jaka Batič
TECHNICAL CREW Janko Oven, Duško Pušica
MULTI-CAM PLAYER CODING Igor Budišin
PRODUCTION Via Negativa, 2021
Recorded in The Old Power Station Ljubljana, February 2021
This video is presented within the Old Power Statopn’s programme of streamings E+TOK / POWER STREAM.
Via Negativa: PHYSIS

Location
Video
1h 18min / Eng subtitles.
You can register for viewing here and you will get link to the film.
“A state? What is that? The state, I call it, where the slow suicide of all — is called life.”
Democracy has become a catacomb of the healthy, responsible and normal. The state needs people who are weak enough to become dependent and obedient enough to remain useful. There is no democracy for sickness and dying, no democracy for visions of a rebellious spirit or for the trembling of a weak heart – there is no democracy for nature.
“For the superfluous ones was the state devised! There, where the state ceases — there only commences the man who is not superfluous.”
But nature, though accustomed to die, still has the power to resist the brutality of civilization; and civilization, though willing to risk everything for its own self-preservation, still has enough time to stop the terror of the “good and just.”
“There, where the state ceases — pray look there, my brothers!” Friedrich Nietzsche
We dedicate the performance to Friedrich Nietzsche, who suffered a nervous breakdown on 3 January 1889, and a series of strokes after the year 1898, which partially paralysed him, leaving him unable to speak or walk. After contracting pneumonia he died on 25 August 1900. The diagnosis of his “mental illness” is still the subject of medical debate.
Credits:
CONCEIVED BY Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec
CONCEPT & DIRECTION Bojan Jablanovec
CHOREOGRAPHY Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Grega Zorc
Contains fragments from the book by Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Tako je govoril Zaratursta; Slovenska matica, Ljubjana 1984; translated by Janko Moder)
SUPERFLUOUS Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Sara Horžen, Olja Grubić, Loup Abramovici, Ena Kurtalić, Rok Kravanja, Tina Habun (Tjaša Črnigoj), Timotej Novaković, Neža Blažič, Nina Goropečnik, Rea Vogrinčič, Daniele Tenze, Jernej Škof, Aleksandra Kmetič, Mitja Lovše, Vesna Hauschild and Lena
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN Eduardo Raon
Contains also fragments from works by Jacques Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers – Galop infernal, Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Les oiseaux dans la charmille, Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser – Overture, Dean Kay – Kelly Gordon: That’s Life
VOICES Gallina, vocal group, Ana Erčulj, conductor
LIGHT DESIGN Igor Remeta
COSTUMOGRAPHY Olja Grubić
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & PUBLIC RELATIONS Sara Horžen
PRODUCER Špela Trošt
PRODUCTION Via Negativa – VN Lab, 2020
FINANCIAL SUPPORT Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana
Video:
SHOOTING DIRECTOR & EDITING Vid Hajnšek
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Rok Kajzer Nagode
CAMERAS Rok Kajzer Nagode, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Špela Škulj
SOUND DESIGN Eduardo Raon
LIGHT DESIGN Igor Remeta
BOOM OPERATOR Jaka Batič
TECHNICAL CREW Janko Oven, Duško Pušica
MULTI-CAM PLAYER CODING Igor Budišin
PRODUCTION Via Negativa, 2021
Recorded in The Old Power Station Ljubljana, February 2021
This video is presented within the Old Power Statopn’s programme of streamings E+TOK / POWER STREAM.
TECHNOBURLESQUE IMAGE SNATCHERS

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Live streaming from Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana via Pretok.tv.
Presented in the frame of the streaming programme E+TOK / POWER STREAM.
Technoburlesque is a mute comedy of the body that mocks rigidity of social roles. It uncritically appropriates, copies and glues together femininity, masculinity, family relationships, machismo and other degenerated social roles that are unrighteous considered to be normative. When Image Snatchers totally expose themselves — and remove their social dresses layer by layer — they do not find the essence, but realize that the essence is nothingness, and the performed travesties opium that makes living bearable. This amusing play in cross-dressing and their behavior are a result of great sexual and bodily liberation from social bands. Satisfied in eclectic noise of media images they stretch popular snap-shots and bite them to their unheard-of forms that provoke burst of laughter or despair. Image Snatchers don’t seek for meaning but pleasure. As pleasure is the hedonistic polish with which they smeared everyday objects and made something exceptional out of them. Technoburlesque is an intersection of (program/cybernetic) code and subjectivity; a laying bare of the physical and emotional body indivisibly bound up with the information matrix of contemporaneity.
TICKETS
For the LIVE STREAM please buy the online ticket.
On the day of the performance you will receive an e-mail with the link to the performance live stream.
Tickets: 5 EUR
More information: info@emanat.si
Live with you Feminalz:
Matilda Buns, Tristan Bargeld, H.P.D. (hormonal perturbator in decay), Crucial Pink, Mad Jakale, Rebellious KITCH Controversy, Dee Dee Void, Ariela, Rosa Dolor, Glitter Ale, Muséecunt
Selection and original music: Feminalz and Luka Prinčič
Make up and hair design: Tinka Prpar
Customs: Urška Recer
Light design: Janko Oven
Technical support: Damjan Delak
Video EPP: Feminalz
Video editing: Luka Prinčič
Live video stream
Director: Luka Prinčič
Camera: Marko Kumer Murč
Technical execution: Damjan Delak
Live moderating and executive production: Sabrina Železnik
Produced by: Emanat
Partners: Klub Gromka, Maska, Srednja vzgojiteljska šola, gimnazija in umetniška gimnazija Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, Bunker / Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City Municipalty Ljubljana
ABOUT US
Bunker is a non-profit organization for the realization and organization of cultural events. Bunker produces and presents contemporary theatre and dance performances, organizes different workshops and other educational programmes with a special focus on cultural and artistic education, participates in or leads numerous international projects, organizes international discursive forums and discussion evenings, and produces one of the most prominent international contemporary performing arts festivals – the Mladi Levi Festival.
Since the year 2004, Bunker programmes and manages the inspirational space of The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana.
The Old Power Station is a space for contemporary perfroming arts. It is buzzing with activities: several groups use it as their rehearsal venue; it is a place for different workshops, which range from cultural management to dance techniques, while in the evening, the power station is a venue for various contemporary performances and other multimedia events. The programme in the Old Power Station is a combination of international performances, presented in the frame of various festivals, as well as a selection of interesting Slovene contemporary artists. The red thread of all events in The Old Power Station is the desire to explore and move the boundaries of the aesthetic and the expected, as well as the desire for engagement in the local and global environment.
