Lecture performance
by Bojana Kust in Katarina Stegnar
The theorist and the performer enter a relationship where they do not “seek for a common language” but do the exact opposite – they do not even out their discourse differences, they exaggerate them. Bojana Kunst: “Dear Katarina, I as viewer of your performances, which deal with the radical body and energy consumption, connect to them my feeling of deep unease, which can be so strong that I rather decide not to see some of your performances, even though your work is of immense interest to me …” Katarina is inexorable: “Dear Bojana, I know from the very beginning all of this is bullshit. Why are the two of us here today? Who put us together and why? Instead of producing a new performance, Jablanovec combines old material into some kind of lecture performance bullshit we’ve seen a hundred times before.
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