Klemen Kovačič: AGMISTERIUM

Durational performance, premiere Master's production of studies of the Art of Movement program, Major Art of Movement 1. Your Fight (at 4 pm) 2. Preparations for the Present 3. Your Songs, Whose Dreams (at approximately 7 pm) 4. Prayer 5. And Immediately It is Evening (at approximately 11.15 pm) The Agmisterium is an account of the author/performer with himself, which unfolds on his body in the form of a one-time performance. It brings to the fore the question of the relationship between the tangible, earthly, everyday and the consecrated, poetic, transcendent. In doing so, with the desire to transcend one's own individuality, one looks autobiographically into the past and spreads memories as a training ground for playing out universal questions: self-knowledge as a search for meaning; memory as a bearer of identity, its deceitfulness and simultaneous fatality; solitude as the basis of faith; and the surprisingness of excess feelings at the smallness of existence. We were clearly mistaken when we imagined God greater than us. It is the wonder of life as a great mystery on the elusive ground between detail and universe, moment and eternity, step and journey. It is a liberation from one's own subjectivity and thus a…

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