An entertaining and well thought out dramaturgy-choreography series for a laptop and a human body, in which the Croatian choreographer and performer Barbara Matijević adds her body to the body images shown in a selection of YouTube recordings to address us on multiple levels: as a »trigger of fiction, a stock of signs and their meanings, fundamentals, which place the viewer or user in front of a drill of information address, caught between the fragmented empirical directness and hyper abstraction.«
This simple performative suggestion leads to a minute or great drama, a confrontation between the virtual world and the reality of the bodily (self)perception, a fusion of spatial and temporal relocations, a fusion of the mediatised (two-dimensional) and direct (present) bodily image. »The result is a vertiginous hybrid experience, a field of unrecognisability, which is created by the logic of the videos, torn between the banality of everyday position, movements and objects and the possibilities of their transformation into new tools of self-narration.« Barbara Matijević is known to the Ljubljana audience for her cooperation with the collective Via Negativa, however with her performance Forecasting, the last part in the trilogy entitled The Theory of Performing the Future, or: Is the Only Way of Escaping the Massacre in Becoming its Author (the trilogy includes I am 1984, 2008, Tracks, 2009) she presents herself as an independent artist (or to be more precise as the co-author with Giuseppe Chico) to the Ljubljana audience for the first time.
Avtorja scenarija in režiserja/Written and Directed by: Giuseppe Chico, Barbara Matijević
Nastopajoča/Performer: Barbara Matijević
Dramaturško svetovanje/Dramaturgical Assistance: Saša Božić
Produkcija/Production: 1er Stratagème and De facto
Koprodukcija/Coproduction: Kaaitheatre (Brüssel), UOVO (Mailand)
More info: www.cofestival.si.
