Via Nova Museum

Performance as a process of artefact creation

A process of dismantling the old (the disassembly of the Vie Negative performances) and installing the new (the Via Nova Museum exhibitions). Eleven performers perform twenty situations from the Seven Deadly Sins performance cycle. Their actions have a common goal: to create twenty artefacts and to install an exhibition in the context of the permanent collection of the City Museum of Ljubljana. The performances take place simultaneously for two hours in three different museum spaces, with the audience moving freely between them during the performance. With this collective gesture, Via Negativa turns the performance into a function of creating an artistic artefact and setting up an exhibition. The exhibition was opened by the director of the museum, Blaž Peršin, and was on display for one hour.

Via Nova Museum

2009 • Via Nova
Collective presentation • 180 min

Performances
— Gregor Zorc: Trumpet Zorc (Starting Point Anger, 2002)
— Jaka Lah: Bang bBang (More, 2003)
— Mateja Pucko: The Best Goalkeeper in the World (More, 2003)
— Boris Kadin: La vie en rose (More, 2003)
— Katarina Stegnar: You Know Exactly What You Want (Incasso, 2004)
— Katja Legin: Leather Wallet (Incasso, 2004)
— Kristian Al Droubi: In the End, Everything Goes… (Incasso, 2004)
— Gregor Zorc: Bohemian Rhapsody (Incasso, 2004)
— Marko Mandić: It’s Nice to Be Marko Mandić / Extract Mandić (Would Would Not, 2005)
— Nataša Živković: Only 10 % Separate Us (Would Would Not, 2005)
— Katarina Stegnar: The Long-Awaited Point (Viva Verdi, 2006)
— Marko Mandić: 60 Minutes of Sweat (Viva Verdi, 2006)
— Uroš Kaurin: Fontana (Viva Verdi, 2006)
— Kristian Al Droubi: Something Useful (Viva Verdi, 2006)
— Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi: Game With Knives (Not Like Me, 2007)
— Katarina Stegnar: Last Cigarette of Pina Bausch (Four Deaths, 2007)
— Gregor Zorc: The Heart of Forced Entertainment (Four Deaths, 2007)
— Barbara Kukovec: No More Theatricality (Four Deaths, 2007)
— Gregor Zorc: Give Me the Text (Out, 2008)
— Katarina Stegnar: Don’t Look at Me (Out, 2008)

Concept and direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Technical manager — Igor Remeta
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa
Partners — City Museum of Ljubljana, B-51 Cultural Society

Presentation
20-09-2009 • City Museum of Ljubljana, Ex Ponto festival