Mending the Invisible 2023/24

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.

CREDITS

  • 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

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Premiere: 29th August 2024, Mladi levi Festival, Slovenia

Upcoming performances:

Past performances:

  • 31st August 2024, Mladi levi festival 2024, ŠD Tabor, Slovenia
  • 30th August 2024, Mladi levi festival 2024, ŠD Tabor, Slovenia
  • 27th August 2024, intervention in public space, Ljubljana, Mladi levi festival 2024, Slovenia
  • 26th August 2024, at 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., intervention in public space, Ljubljana, Mladi levi festival 2024, Slovenia

Ajda Bračič

Ajda Bračič was born early in the morning on the day of the Assumption of Mary. She studied architecture and works as an editor, curator and researcher. In 2021, she founded Kajža, an NGO which promotes and educates about the reuse of old buildings. In 2022, her literary debut, a collection of short stories Leteči ljudje was published, receiving the kritiško sito and Maruša Krese award.

Urban Belina

Is a postmedia artist, dramaturge, curator and literary translator. In art, he develops more complex interdisciplinary collaborative projects with queer, feminist and decolonial approaches.
As a translator, he participates in numerous programmes of institutions and NGO producers (MGML, MGLC, INZ, Kino Šiška, NDA Slovenia, etc.). His translation of Jasmina Založnik’s book Claiming of Space: New Performative Art Practices in Yugoslavia into the Slovenian language has recently been published by the Maska publishing house, and his translation of Bojana Kunst’s latest book into the English language is also forthcoming.

Ana Čigon

Ana Čigon is an artist that works in the fields of visual arts, film and performance. Her projects tackle social issues and often contain elements of humor, irony and satire. She presents her works at solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally. She received the OHO Group Award for her video art work, while her documentary, experimental films and animations have been part of competition programs at numerous international film festivals.