Via II. Gymnasium Maribor

Eight performances in the logic of the school day

In his essay Erasing the Audience, Blaž Lukan says that the omniscient viewer has no need of theatre, because the viewer who comes to the theatre has never learned anything and never will learn anything. Via II. Gymnasium Maribor performances take place in the classrooms of the II. Gymnasium Maribor and stage the relationship between “knowing” and “not knowing”. Each performance is a lesson, their sequence follows the logic of the school day. Each performer, like a teacher in front of his/her students, occupies the place of knowledge in one way or another. The classroom puts the viewer in the role of the “ignorant pupil” and challenges him to take his position between the pretext – the context – the text, or simply to observe the relationship between theory and practice, between the idea and the body, between the word and the flesh, between the metaphor and the real, between the thesis and the antithesis…

Via II. Gymnasium Maribor

2012 • Via Nova
Collective presentation • 300 min

Performances
— All That You Came For
— Game With Toothpicks
— What Joseph Beuys Told Me…
— Extract Mandić
— Pure performance
— Interview With the Artist
— Last cigarette of Pina Bausch (Four Deaths)
— Tonight I Celebrate

Concept — Bojan Jablanovec
Performers — Gregor Zorc, Kristian Al Droubi, Boris Kadin, Marko Mandić, Jaka Lah, Katarina Stegnar, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom
Technical manager — Igor Remeta
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa
Co-production — KUD Moment, Maribor

Presentation
20-05-2012 • II. Gymnasium Maribor, Crossings festival