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PARL 2025
Residency for research and development of performance practice
The Producers of Contemporary Performance Art and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Ljubljana invite performance artists and groups with a need and ambition to develop performance concepts, explore performative strategies and formats, and reflect on their work from different artistic perspectives, to submit a project proposal to PARL 2025. Applications close on 31 March.
MANDIĆCIRCUS
The actor as manic fragment and shock therapist
“Mandić cannot be reduced to narcissism. He is an actor who constantly shatters his image in the mirror. A powerful actor. His performance is memorable – it is a performance/announcement, a performance/manifesto, a performance/challenge. A celebration and a “horror” reflection on the acting and the actor” (Novi list, Zagreb).
METASTASIS OF FREEDOM
The boat no longer floats peacefully
“Gradually and surely, we have felt what the metastases of freedom are, what we have done as a cohesive and fractured community, and what our future holds. Which is to say that Olja Grubić is a master of combining ambiguity, humour, subversive contradictions and idiosyncratic approaches to the deadly serious issues that affect us all”. (Dnevnik, Ljubljana)
SLOVENIAN MOUNTAIN TRAIL
Between slavery and freedom
“Slovenian Mountain Trail is a metaphor for the internalised, unreflected patriarchy we inherit from our fathers. Without explicit wording and with the power of body language, Kravanja shows how the subject, embedded in the ancestral stream and trapped in the various social habits and conventions that co-shape the prototype of Slovenian identity, is forced into self-censorship and denial.” (Sigledal.org)
THREE QUARTERS OF A HUMAN
Dancing through the end of the world
“Before us is a dancing people, a social order that is constantly breaking apart and putting itself back together again, little by little. And in the imaginary air above them, somewhere high up, there are planes with bombs, approaching relentlessly. And people dance on, unaware.” (Radio Študent, Ljubljana)
