Address: Ob železnici 16, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility

You could say that Maribor has everything that the greats have. A little rough around the edges - just the way we like it. There are many urban legends and clichés about this city; the walk titled Maribor - Metropolis touches on these more or less hidden stories about it. Maribor is also a city of culture, although sometimes we don't notice it at first glance. After all, in 2012, the city held the proud title of European Capital of Culture. But Maribor wouldn't be Maribor if it didn’t do something a little differently sometimes, a little in its own way with a touch of its ‘Maribor-ness’. In this session, walk through a brief overview and memory of some of the ‘pearls’ that it managed to create in the field of culture.

Guides: Jure Golež, Katja Beck Kos

Address: Glavni trg 22, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility

This is a biographic show with many coincidences, blood and bloody connections, where two artists fictionalise about the past in order to better tell their story and try to understand the history of humankind. They both did a genetic test and investigated their past. One from Slovenia reached Bosnia and the other from Portugal. Intertwining both countries and their histories, they speak about migrations, trade routes, war and peace agreements, love and betrayal, baby exchange, family rivalries and long journeys. They tell us about what brings us together.

Duration: 70 min
Genre: Docufiction storytelling
Language: English

Credits

Author and director: Jorge Andrade
Authors and actors: Miranda Trnjanin, Pedro Moldao
Scenography and costumes: José Capela
Light design: João Fonte
Technical support: Luís Rabaçal, Andrej Firm
Produced by: Moment Maribor (Slovenia), Mala voadora (Portugal)

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Production contact: Nika Bezeljak, nika@moment.si
Status: Ready for touring

Address: Slovenska ulica 27, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility

‘Nobody Whistles Anymore’ is a performance created as part of the international project Performing Gender. This intergenerational community has trained and formed itself over a three-year creative period and completed its final phase with theatre director Brina Klampfer Merčnik and choreographer Vita Osojnik. The central theme of all participating countries was the question of how to perform gender. A group from Slovenia, with participants aged 27 to 74, explored the theme of performing gender in different ways, in the form of workshops, conversations, homework tasks, improvisations and through dance. They explored the common movement of an intergenerational group and tried to focus on what intrigues us all, regardless of gender and age. The result is an author-based performance, a collage of scenes and of our reflections on the given theme. This performance has already been on tour in Sweden (Umea) and England (Leeds). They have also run a workshop in the Netherlands ('s-Hertogenbosch).

Duration: 80 min
Genre: Theatre
Language: Slovene with English subtitles

Credits

Concept: Brina Klampfer Merčnik and Vita Osojnik
Directed by: Brina Klampfer Merčnik
Choreography: Vita Osojnik
Coauthors: Teja Bitenc, Alenka Dereani, Josip Drabik Jug, Romana Humar, Alja Lacković, Majda Lekše, Tina Poglajen, Ankica Radivojević, Vesna Škreblin, Manca Trampuš
Lighting design: Jaka Šimenc
Original music and performance: Manca Trampuš in Teja Bitenc
Scenography and video: Neža Dali Novak
Scenic sculptor: Boštjan Nartnik
Costumography: Tina Koleni
Movement assistant: Alja Lacković
Costumes by: Alja Drame
Photography: Nada Žgank
Video: Tina Šulc
Producer: Eva Prodan
Artistic consultancy: Iva Kovač, Sara Šabec, Ana Lorger, Katja Lenarčič
Concept: Teja Reba; the performance is also based on workshops with Teja Reba, TC Howard, Sindri Runudde and Maia Means 
Production: City of Women
Cofunders: Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes, Ministry of Public Administration RS, Municipality of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture RS, Municipality of Ljubljana. 

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Production contact: Eva Prodan, production@cityofwomen.org
Status: Ready for touring
 

Address: Vetrinjska ulica 30, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility

‘Ability’ is based on stories of four women about their sexual coming-of-age, their relationship to their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships. What the four women have in common is that they live with a disability and are thus, as Elena Pečarič says in her essay So Beautiful, Yet Disabled, faced with double discrimination as persons with a disability and as women. In Slovenia, the sexuality of people with disabilities is overlooked at a systemic level and sex education is particularly lacking in this area, while social care workers have discretion as to whether they help women with disabilities with sexual practice, as this is not in their job description.

'In such a stifling atmosphere, a woman with a disability literally has to fight windmills to express her sexuality, femininity, well-being or satisfaction with her appearance, herself and her body. […] Why is it so difficult to understand and accept that a woman with a disability can be happy with herself or her body as it is, to feel good, to feel beautiful, attractive or sexy?' (Elena Pečarič: So Beautiful, Yet Disabled)

Duration: 50 min
Genre: Documentary lecture-performance
Language: Slovenian with English surtitles

Credits

Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj
Performer: Lina Akif
Sound performer: Tea Vidmar
Music: Tea Vidmar
Visuals and costume design: Tijana Todorović
Set design: Barbara Kapelj
Nuri’s voice: Katarina Stegnar
Editing audio tapes and sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Barbara Kapelj
Translation: Tina Malič
Production management: Tina Dobnik
Assistant: Demijan Pintarič, 

Martina Piskač (together with Uroš Sede), Nura, Suzana, Tjaša and Linda shared their experiences. Included are statements by expert-interviewees (Elena Pečarič, Jernej Hazimali and Steven De Weirdt) and excerpts from Elena Pečarič’s essay 'So Beautiful, Yet Disabled', published in the journal Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1/2.

Production: The New Post Office (Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre)
Co-production: City of Women

Get in touch

Production contact: Alja Lobnik, alja.lobnik@maska.si

Status: Ready for touring

Please note that this is a site sensitive walking activity that can be done on all days of the Caravan, at any time.

A site-sensitive walking activity by Tery Žeželj to recalibrate the mind and body to perceive things unmourned and unmournable along the path. What is worthy of mourning in our society? How do we collectively deal with ecological grief? How can we mourn other bodies?

English Version

Slovenian-English Version

Duration: 30 min
Genre: Sound walk
Language: English

Credits

Audio-walk: Tery Žeželj in conversation with Lea Leskovec
Sound and technical support for audio walk: Blaž Pavlica
Producer: Maja Vižin

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Production contact: Maja Vižin, maja.vizin@bunker.si

Status: Ready for touring

Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility

‘Fun Fact’ is based on a communal situation where, as always in theatre, questions are being asked - but this time, answers will be given. What happened in the gloomy and foggy autumn of 1981? How many centaurs were killed during a wedding party that went a bit wrong? What was here before we came and where has the old lady gone?

Small dramas will be forgotten. Big dramas will be remembered. But only when they are big enough to offer some interesting stuff for us to wonder about.

Duration: 90 min
Genre: Theatre
Language: English

Credits

Concept and direction: Primož Bezjak, Eero Epner, Branko Jordan, Mart Kangro, Katarina Stegnar, Juhan Ulfsak
Performers: Primož Bezjak, Eero Epner, Mart Kangro, Katarina Stegnar, Juhan Ulfsak
Music and sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Costume design: Olja Grubić
Lighting design and technical direction: Andrej Petrovčič
Production of scenic elements: Martin Podrzavnik
Executive producers: Maja Vižin (Bunker), Eneli Järs (Kanuti Gildi SAAL)
Assistant producer: Ajda Koloini
Public relations: Tamara Bračič Vidmar
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana; Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn; Eero Epner, Juhan Ulfsak, Mart Kangro

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Production contact: Maja Vižin, maja.vizin@bunker.si

Status: Ready for touring

Address: Zaloška cesta 61, 1110 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility

‘This is my truth, tell me yours’ is a solo project by the dramaturg and writer Jasna Žmak, in which she explores her relationship with the artistic field, questioning the responsibilities and the anxieties that the role of the contemporary artist implies. The performance leans on her personal experience from 2011, where she began suffering from tinnitus and hyperacusis after firing a theatre gun during the performance ‘MandićMachine’.

Directed by Bojan Jablanovec and performed by Marko Mandić, in this piece Žmak creates her own version of a 'ŽmakMachine' and explores the ways in which art forms the reality we are living in. Although seemingly not connected, the themes of tinnitus and patriarchy become the central motif of this work that operates at the intersection between stand-up comedy and lecture performance. Appearing on stage in the role of the performer for the first time, Žmak deals with questions of truthfulness and representation as well as participation and responsibility, guiding us through her dramaturgical and sexual experiences, asking herself and the audience questions about the importance and the meaning of artistic production in the era of wild capitalism.

Duration: 60 min
Genre: Solo performance
Language: English

Credits 

Author and dramaturg: Jasna Žmak
Performer: Jasna Jasna Žmak
Lighting designer: Anton Modrušan
Support in movement creation: Ana Kreitmeyer
Producers: Romana Brajša, Špela Trošt (Via Negativa), Barbara Zonta (City of Women)
Production: Center for Drama Art, Zagreb & Via Negativa, Ljubljana & City of Women, Ljubljana
Partners: KunstTeatar, Zagreb & VoxFeminae festival, Zagreb & Zavod En-Knap, Ljubljana

This project was developed during PARL – Performance Art Research Ljubljana 2022.

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Production contact: Špela Trošt spelca200@gmail.com

Status: Ready for touring

Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility
 

‘Us humans encroach on the forest, but the power of the forest to shape people is also inevitable,’ says Leja Jurišić about the conceptual impulses that drove the creation of ‘Red Forest’. In the forest we heal our wounds, in the forest wounds are created, the silence of the forest is not non-violent and neither is the loudness of the world. 

A forest is mystical, dangerous, wild, powerful, lonely, idyllic and natural; an animal kingdom, a place of retreat or longing and also a place of exploitation and destruction. The attempt to stand out from the everyday realities of capitalism, its ideological and material catastrophes, and the desire to rest in the forest, turns out to be an illusion: 

‘Each subject who is sent to the forest considers it an important obstacle. Even though the forest is never conquered, the subject still has to travel through it. There is always a forest between defeat and success. In fact, it is the forest that makes the subject’s success possible. Subjects enter the forest with little or no knowledge, and come out with acute self-awareness,’ says Jurišić, loosely quoting Erica Spelman. 

Five dancers and choreographers are faced with the Red Forest. What comes to life is an omnibus of confrontations with the Red Forest, a series of individual entries that are infused with collective actions but require strong and sensitive individuals. The human forest is a field of empty, consumer-oriented signals, empty political pamphlets, and likewise empty promises.. The Red Forest does not silence sensibility but instead welcomes its glow and constructive potential in which we devise how to withstand the intensity of the world. The Red Forest tries to establish a situation where conventional social arrangements - which are most often also social arrangements of destruction - lose their charm of instant pleasure and the sense of insufficiency that follows it. Our direction is therefore not turned towards the human forest - but to the Red Forest.

Duration: 60 min
Genre: Dance
Language: n/a

Credits:

Author and choreography: Leja Jurišić
Co-authors and performed by: Urška Centa, Gašper Kunšek, Žigan Krajnčan, Kristýna Peldová, Veronika Valdés
Set design, dramaturgy, costume design: Petra Veber
Music: Eduardo Raon
Songs used in the performance: Žar Ljubezni (Žigan Krajnčan), The Age Of Love (Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano Remix)
Sound: Jure Vlahovič
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Producer: Žiga Predan
Produced by: Pekinpah

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Production contact: Žiga Predan, ziga.predan@pekinpah.com 

Status: Ready for touring

Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility

‘Circle’ is a theatrical essay intertwining storytelling, visual art, architecture and sociological research. The space is marked by sculptural structures made of building materials, which are connected through a live narrative. It speaks of parks, which visual artist Neja Tomšič and the interdisciplinary group of artists, architects and theorists Nonument Group understand as a field of different interests, ideas and policies. Both Nonument Group and Neja Tomšič tell about political and social ideas, movements and policies, whose changes are reflected in material reality – common public areas.

They began their initial research work in Cluj Napoca, in the abandoned Railway Workers’ Park, which found itself at the intersection of neoliberal city interests and the racist attitude towards Roma residents and the poor, crammed into a ghetto on the outskirts of the city. As a leitmotif, the park also accompanies other, personal stories of the narrators – as a legacy, a ‘nonument’, the trace of which remains in the memories of (former) users even after the change in land use. At the same time, ‘Circle’ remains a relevant work of art, as it contextualises time and again the place where it is staged – be it the history of the Cukrarna sugar factory, the former Tranzit House synagogue in Cluj or Ljubljana’s Old Power Station.

Duration: 60 min
Genre: Theatre essay
Language: English

Credits

Authors: Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Miloš Kosec)
Script: Neja Tomšič
Performing: Neja Tomšič, Nika Grabar, Miloš Kosec
Sculptures: Martin Bricelj Baraga
Sound design: Simina Oprescu
Recordings: Neja Tomšič and Martin Bricelj Baraga
Cluj Assistant researchers: Istvan Szakats, Flaviu Petean
Documentary off-voice: Flaviu Petean
Help with research in Alexandria: Mohamed Adel Dessouki, Sarah Baghat
Statements: Viorica Zsiga, Adrian Dohotaru, Vlad Rusu, Istvan Szakats
Voice of Viorica: Jadranka Gnezda
Sound technician: Luka Seliškar
Lighting design: Martin Lovšin
Costumes: Dajana Ljubičič
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Technical coordinator: Martin Lovšin
Technical crew: Luka Bernetič, Andrej Petrovčič, Duško Pušica, Manca Vukelič, Vid Starman
Producers: Alma R. Selimović, Klara Drnovšek Solina, Ajda Koloini

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Production contact: Alma R. Selimović, alma.r.selimovic@bunker.si

Status: Ready for touring

Address: Robbova ulica 15, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility

This fifth and final part of the lecture-performance series breaks down the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia. Although it only implicitly touched upon sexual rights, it paved the path for us even being able to talk about sexual pleasure today. This struggle goes back to the time during and after World War II when the so-called epidemic of (backstreet) abortions claimed many women’s lives. At the time, abortion was illegal and carried a prison sentence, and the concept of marital rape did not legally exist. Using the biographies of Vida Tomšič, a partisan and an important Yugoslav politician, and Dr Franc Novak-Luka, a partisan, prominent gynaecologist and Vida Tomšič’s second husband, the artists outline the development of the policy.

Developing the concept of family planning as a human right, and the right to sexual education that goes beyond the biologistic notion of sexuality and focuses on the so-called humane relationships between sexes, was progressive for its time. At a time when society is being re-traditionalist and policies are re-questioning the right to safe abortion and contraception, the idea that women’s bodies belong to them alone cannot be taken for granted, but instead, as something that must still – and again – be fought for.

Duration: 60 min
Genre: Lecture-performance
Language: Slovenian, Croatian with English surtitles

Credits

Authors: Tjaša Črnigoj, Sendi Bakotić, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj
Performed by: Sendi Bakotić, Vanda Velagić
Set design: Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Costume design: Tijana Todorović
Expert from the field: Dr. Maja Vehar
Respondent on the topic of Vida Tomšič and Franc Novak biographies: Živa Novak
Vida Tomšič's voice: Draga Potočnjak
Franc Novak's voice: Matej Recer
The voice of the midwife: Nina Skrbinšek
The voice of the broadcaster: Sara Horžen
Music selection: Tjaša Črnigoj, Sendi Bakotić, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Language consultant: Mateja Dermelj
Editing and post-production of the audio recording: Jure Vlahovič, Silvo Zupančič
Lighting designers: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Stage manager: Demijan Pintarič
Technical directors: Manca Vukelič, Igor Remeta
Producer: Tina Dobnik
Co-production: Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Ljubljana and City of Women
Partnership: Kolektiv Igralke

Sex Education II is part of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem which has been conceived and is carried out by Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, Stanisław Brzozowski Association / Krytyka Polityczna and Maska Ljubljana, with the support of the EU programme Creative Europe.

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Production contact: Alja Lobnik, alja.lobnik@maska.si 

Status: Ready for touring

Address:  Gregorčičeva 3. 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility

Baker, psychic, plumber, mayor, bell-ringer. Invisible, overlooked, broken, transcendent. Community of the city and city of community. They have gathered to judge the history - history that has broken their dreams, desires, passions. Started to reign over their time. Set the rules of the game. Spread the power. Built a claustrophobic community, full of unspoken secrets. All they are left with are memories. Painful, transient, playful, blazing, loving. Past is foggy, present is slipping through their fingers, future does not exist. Everyone is waiting for a change that never comes. 

Who is building a community? Who does the territory of the city belong to? Who controls the time? How is power distributed in society? How can we put down roots, when the world is constantly becoming? How can you build the territory of ‘possible’, and where can you find the space to be playful when spontaneity is forbidden?

Every destruction is also a creation of something new. First non-institutional project by Počemučka. Statement of some generation about some community, some time, some city, some ideas and some anti-generation. Anti-idea. "As long as we play." Under Construction.
 

Duration: 80 min
Genre: Object theatre
Language: Slovenian with English subtitles

Awards:

Grand prix, best original performance and animation award and award for best original theatre play and concept at the Biennial of Puppetry Artists of Slovenia, Maribor 2023.

Special jury prize for a creation that inventively combines different theatrical languages at The 52nd Week of Slovenian Drama, Kranj, 2022.

Credits

Authors: Počemučka / Nataša Keser, Klemen Kovačič, Karolína Kotrbová, Aljoša Lovrić Krapež, Filip Mramor, Domen Novak, Nejc Potočan, Filip Štepec, Miranda Trnjanin
Performers: Nataša Keser, Klemen Kovačič, Filip Mramor, Domen Novak, Miranda Trnjanin 
Direction: Aljoša Lovrić Krapež
Dramaturgy: Nejc Potočan
Movement consultant: Filip Štepec
Scenography and costume design: Karolína Kotrbová  
Technical supervision: Grega Mohorčič
Technical support: Brina Ivanetič, Žan Rantaša
Photography: Ivian Kan Mujezinović, Borut Bučinel
Video: Borut Bučinel
Editor of Glej, Paper: Tery Žeželj
Graphic design: Grupa Ee / Mina Fina, Ivian Kan Mujezinović
Producer: Anja Pirnat
Production: Gledališče Glej
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Ljubljana
Thanks: Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana

Get in touch

Production contact: Anja Pirnat, anja@glej.si

Status: Ready for touring