Together

Première: 27 January 2018, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
Running time 6 hours. No interval. During the performance it is possible to leave the venue any time and return back; it can also be entered at any time. It is recommended to see the full performance. Performance is not participatory.

Authors Leja Jurišić and Marko Mandič in cooperation with director Bojan Jablanovec and writer Semira Osmanagić
Music vsakokratni izbor glasbe iz arzenala svetovne in domače pop glasbe, predvajane v naključnem vrstnem redu računalniškega algoritma
Technical director Igor Remeta
Technical creators Andrej Petrovčič (lighting), Jure Vlahovič (sound), Matej Marinček (video)
Producers Žiga Predan in Špela Trošt
Trailer Hana Vodeb

Today we are witnessing the unbearable inflation of performativity. We are drowning in the constant presence and medialization of everything. We are quick to identify what binds us together, yet we are unable to bind ourselves to anything for any significant amount of time. "Together" requires an investment that is increasingly difficult to pay. "Together" is a surface, on which you will always slip - and the more we try to formalize it, the larger the emptiness gaping in what supposedly binds us together. For politics, an irresolvable issue, for performing arts an eternal ideal. The performing duo Jurišić - Mandić, in collaboration with director Bojan Jablanovec and writer Semira Osmanagić, addresses the all-time ideal of performing arts and the forever irresolvable issue of politics: what does it mean to be together and how should we be together? Leja and Marko turn the question upon themselves: Why do I want to be together, how to endure being together, what to do (with oneself) so that "together" becomes a realization of a surplus (in me), how to avoid the hierarchy of power? And how to establish this "together" in the performative time and space of the spectator? "Together" is a sort of a mythical site of fusion that "heals" an individual with another individual. For this, they require time. The word enters the event through the thoughts of Semira Osmanagić, which are being created and projected during the actual event. This is the gaze of the third seeking its own place in togetherness and which is always already an interpretation pushing on the invisible handles of the invisible doors into "togetherness."

Post-performance talk with the artists in the Mezzanine.