Irresolvable

The ideological production of meaning

In 2011, Via Negativa launches a new cycle of performances entitled Irresolvable, which shifts its creative interest from radical subjectivisation (as in previous critiques of the post-industrial neoliberal subject) to the collective, which still represents the utopian ideal of any ideology. The study of the mechanisms of individual subordination to the social norm moves into the field of collective subordination to the mechanisms of super-identification (family, state, nation, god, nature, etc.).

In terms of content, the Irresolvable cycle opens up a territory of contradictory concepts and irresolvable paradoxes that structure society and the individual at its core. It is a set of concepts that determine the value system of each ideology, such as: truth, justice, freedom, equality, reason, good, life, death, happiness, etc. Each dominant ideology shapes these concepts according to its needs to maintain its position of power. The instrument for building a social consensus on their interpretation is politics as a synthesis of the ideological production of meaning in science, religion and art. It is always about ideology – and it is the irresolvable that the projects in this series address.

Concept and artistic direction
Bojan Jablanovec

Devised and performed by
Anita Wach • Andrej Fon • Anna Krzystek • Boris Kadin • Borisz Kucsov • Csaba Formanek • Esztella Levko • Etelka Magyari • Gábor Mészáros • Gregor Zorc • Jaka Lah • Katarina Stegnar • Kristina Aleksova • Kriszta Szorcsik • Lada Petrovski Ternovšek • Leja Jurišić • Loup Abramovici • Magdalena Tuka • Magnus Logi Kristinsson • Marie-Louise Stentebjerg • Marko Mandić • Nataša Živković • Rok Kravanja • Semira Osmanagić • Timo Fredriksson • Tomaž Grom • Vito Weis • Zsolt Imre Mátyás

Photo and video documentation
Marcandrea Bragalini • Matjaž Rušt • Matija Lukić • Urška Boljkovac • Teodora Simova • Marta Ankiersztejn • Srdjan Pabllo Doroski • Tomasz Ćwiertnia • Tobiasz Papuczys • Jakub Wittchen • Bojan Jablanovec • Ana Čigon • Martina Dervarič • Vid Hajnšek • Rok Kajzer Nagode • Vid Uršič • Špela Škulj

Producer
Špela Trošt

Co-producers and partners
Art Stations Foundation, Poznan • Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf • Dance Ireland, Dublin • KUD Moment, Maribor • SNG Drama Ljubljana • Oblivia, Helsinki • Csiky Gergely, Timisoara • Maszk, Szeged • Kosztolányi Dezső, Subotica • Cultural Centre Novi Sad • Maat Festival, Lublin • JaJaJa NeNeNe, Warsaw • Bunker, Ljubljana • A Part Festival, Katowice • Ciało/Umysł Foundation, Warsaw • Pekinpah, Ljubljana • Kino Šiška, Ljubljana • FFT Düsseldorf • Sploh, Ljubljana