Physis Cinema

Pandemic reflex

The Physis project was created during the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the ban on public events, we adapted the performance entirely for video and broadcast it online in April 2021. The Physis video was created with the idea of broadcasting it as a view from four different cameras, which the viewer could switch between at will, thus editing their viewing experience. Due to technological limitations we were not able to realise the project in this form. The video installation Physis Cinema is a spatial projection of four simultaneous views on four projection screens. The viewer finds himself in a space defined by the projections of bodies in situations of choreographed contagion, invaded by Friedrich Nietzsche with his wild idea of the state as “the slow suicide of all”.

VN20, MSUM Ljubjana
Photo: Marcandrea

VN20, MSUM Ljubjana
Photo: Marcandrea

VN20, MSUM Ljubjana
Photo: Marcandrea

VN20, MSUM Ljubjana
Photo: Marcandrea

Festival Indigo, Cukrarna Ljubljana
Photo: Via Negativa

Festival Indigo, Cukrarna Ljubljana
Photo: Via Negativa

Festival Indigo, Cukrarna Ljubljana
Photo: Via Negativa

Physis Cinema

2022 • Irresolvable
Video installation

Set up — Bojan Jablanovec
Video mapping and synchronisation — Stella Ivšek
Sound design — Eduardo Raon

Video

Recording director — Vid Hajnšek
Director of Photography — Rok Kajzer Nagode
Cameras — Rok Kajzer Nagode, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Špela Škulj
Editing — Bojan Jablanovec
Sound design — Eduardo Raon
Boom operator — Jaka Batič
Technical crew — Janko Oven, Andrej Petrovčič, Duško Pušica
Executive producer — Sara Horžen
Production — Via Negativa

Performance

Concept — Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec
Direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Choreography — Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova
Text — Excerpts from Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zaratursta (Tako je govoril Zaratursta; Slovenska matica, Ljubjana 1984; translated by Janko Moder)
Friedrich Nietzsche — Gregor Zorc
Superfluous — Aleksandra Kmetič, Anita Wach, Daniele Tenze, Ena Kurtalić, Jernej Škof, Kristina Aleksova, Loup Abramovici, Mitja Lovše, Neža Blažič, Nina Goropečnik, Olja Grubić, Rok Kravanja, Sara Horžen, Timotej Novaković, Tina Habun (Tjaša Črnigoj), Rea Vogrinčič, Vesna Hauschild in Lena
Music — Eduardo Raon (extracts from works also used: Jacques Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers – Galop infernal, Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance, Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser, Charles Ives: Central Park In The Dark, Antonín Leopold Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony, Dean Kay – Kelly Gordon: That’s Life)
Voices — Gallina Vocal Group, conductor Ana Erčulj
Light design — Igor Remeta
Costume design — Olja Grubić
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa

First installation
04.10 – 05.10.2022, Cukrarna Ljubljana, Indigo festival

Second installation
09.12.2023 – 21.11.2024, +MSUM Ljubljana as part of the VN20 cycle