“You know what has happened to us in the past 20 years? Clutter has happened to us! People have pawned their lives for heaps of worthless clutter acquired on credit! And all this clutter is being delivered to my dump day after day. Rummaging the waste is the archaeology of the human folly of the
“You know what has happened to us in the past 20 years? Clutter has happened to us! People have pawned their lives for heaps of worthless clutter acquired on credit! And all this clutter is being delivered to my dump day after day. Rummaging the waste is the archaeology of the human folly of the modern era…”
The story of the Renegade has grown from autobiographical premises of Primož Oberžan who has been treading for two decades his own creative path as a musician, philosopher, pedagogue as well as head of the music collective The Stroj. Renegade is his first solo theatre-music project, which he claims to have been writing, polishing, composing and practicing for the last two years.
Renegade’s protagonist, professor Franz Spiellmann, an unemployed philosopher, settles on a dump, “the rear side of the modern world”, where he begins turning found objects and scrap machines into meta-machines, i.e. machines for producing sense.
Based on striking music inserts on author’s original instruments, Renegade provides inventive criticism and reflection of the consumer society. Taking on the role of Professor Spiellmann, the author presents in a witty, yet uncompromising and unique way his philosophy of life – metamechanics.
Text, music, performance, instrumentation, lighting: Primož Oberžan
“As I stood and watched Renegade, it quickly became clear that I was actually witnessing Oberžan’s explosive and uncompromising personal testimony. Gentleness gone wild. Precision gone vicious. Rare defiance of convention. There are not many things in life that take you to euphoria. Renegade has done it for me.”
Jan Cvitkovič
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