TOGETHER

… it was risky, it was funny, it was violent, it was excessive, it was human, it was touching, it was pop, it was intelligent, it was political, it was daring, it was a challenge.
AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
Slovenian Dance Biennale Gibanica 2019

A powerful experience that cuts deep into one’s mind.
AWARD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE JURY FOR UNIQUE PERFORMATIVE GESTURE
Maribor National Theatre Festival 2018

... an electrifying, unpredictable dialogue that comes across as intimate, while inspiring the audience to reflect on the social implications of “being together”.
AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE OF SEASON 2017/18
Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia

EN

Today we are witnessing unbearable inflation of performativity. Everything is a performance, we are drowning in the constant presence and medialization of everything. We are quick to identify what we 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.
Leja and Marko deal precisely with this investment, but without looking for an answer outside of themselves, in some external site (a theory, a story, a mythology) that would make sense of their relationship. They turn the question upon themselves: Why do I want to be together (with him / her), 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 (for that is not being together) ...? And last but not least: How to establish this “together” in the performative time and space of the spectator?

SI

Danes smo priča neznosni inflaciji performativnosti. Utapljamo se v vseprisotnosti inmediatizaciji vsega. Hitro najdemo razloge, kaj nam je skupno, toda (skoraj) z ničemer več (zadolgo) ne zdržimo skupaj. “Skupaj” zahteva investicijo, ki smo jo vedno težje pripravljeni plačati.“Skupaj” je površina, na kateri stalno drsi – bolj ko skupnost želimo formalizirati, večja prazninazačne zevati v skupnem. Za politiko nerazrešljiva težava, za performans večni ideal.
Marko in Leja to vprašanje obračata vase: zakaj hočem biti skupaj, kako vzdržati skupaj, kaj narediti (s sabo), da bo “skupaj” realizacija presežka (mene), kako se izmakniti hierarhiji moči… In kako ta “skupaj” vzpostaviti v performativnem času in prostoru gledalca. “Skupaj” je neko mitično mesto zlitja, ki posameznika “zaceli” z drugim. Za to potrebujeta čas. Pogled tretjega, ki išče svoj prostor v skupnem, vstopa v performans skozi misli Semire Osmanagić, ki z besedo interpretira in pritiska na nevidne kljuke nevidnih vrat v “skupaj”.

CREDITS

Created by Leja Jurišić and Marko Mandić in cooperation with director Bojan Jablanovec and writer Semira Osmanagi; Performed by Leja Jurišič & Marko Mandić; Produced by Pekinpah & Via Negativa; Co-produced by Kino Šiška; Supported by: Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture
Photo by Matija Lukić
Video by Hana Vodeb

SHOWS

LEIPZIG, (Festival Off Europa), 21 May 2022
BARCELONA (Teatro Lliure), 30 January 2022
UTRECHT, (Spring), 31 October 2021
PRAGA (BAZAAR), 1 November 2020
UTRECHT, (Spring - postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19), 23 May 2020
LJUBLJANA (Kino Šiška), 2 June 2019
LJUBLJANA (Gibanica dance biennale), 1 March 2019
MARIBOR (SNG Maribor), 20 October 2018
LJUBLJANA (Plečnikovo gledališče v Tivoliju), 16 September 2018
LJUBLJANA (Old Power Plant), 27 August 2018
LJUBLJANA (Kino Šiška), 13 May 2018
LJUBLJANA (Kino Šiška), 4 Februar 2018
LJUBLJANA (Kino Šiška), 27 January 2018

PRESS

EN

An uncompromising comment on the pace of modern life, the pace dismantling not only “free” times, but also the foundations of their respective communities.
Zala Dobovšek, Dnevnik Newspaper, 1 February 2018

Together can be recognised - without a shadow of doubt - as one of the most important performing arts events staged in Slovenia in the last decade.
Nika Arhar, RTV MMC, 8 February 2018

SI

Performans Skupaj je brezkompromisni komentar na tempo sodobnega sveta, ki poleg »svobodnega« časa drobi tudi temelje pripadajočih skupnosti.
DNEVNIK, 1. februar 2018, 360 minut prisotnosti, Zala Dobovšek

Brez dvoma [lahko] zapišemo, da je njun performans eden najpomembnejših domačih uprizoritvenih dogodkov tega časa.
MMC RTV SLO, 8. februar 2018, Magija šesturne intenzivne prisotnosti, Nika Arhar

Performans Skupaj je generično lep odgovor na ponotranjeno odtujitev, je enostavna gesta, gesta biti, gesta početi kar koli v paru, v paru, ki se potencialno multiplicira onstran vsakršnih binarnosti, tam, kjer je shizoidnost razumljena, spoštovana in utelešena, kjer je ne le vir navdiha, temveč permanentne revolucionarne spremembe.
Nenad Jelesijević, Samo za odrasle, Perfomans.si, 17. september 2018

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