Solo performance by Barbara Kukovec
“Richard Wagner, The Valkyrie. Louder. Louder. Louder. And – Boom. The theatre explodes. The walls collapse, he ceiling falls to the ground. But you and I survive. And now – explosions in concentric circles travel further: Zagreb, Venice, Vienna, Rome, Berlin, Madrid, London and Moscow simultaneously – boom. Only you, me and her are left – the memory of everything that is gone. La Ribot.” Performance La Ribot, Another Bloody Mary, is the last but one victim in this story about erasing the boundary between the performance’s subject and the performing of a subject. The last victim is the performer who performs the story.Barbara investigates the paradox of live presence in front of a viewer: live presence can never exist solely as presence for itself; live presence is always a presence for an absence. Barbara too becomes a victim of her own vivacity: with her performance she creates only a memory about what she creates.
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