LIFE [IN PROGRESS] : JANEZ JANŠA

The formal framework of the project Life [in Progress] is difficult to determine, it constantly drifts between performance and exhibition. Life [in Progress] is the first kiss, the last love letter, protesting, entering a political party, boredom, alcohol, pain, rage, masturbation, the change of name and appearance, a feeling of guilt, friends, our dear departed, mother-daughter conflicts, romances including the ones that have not left the nicest of memories and it is a decision to react or merely observe. Yoko Ono, Christian Boltanski, Jan Fabre, the group OHO, Carolee Schneemann, Abramović & Ulay, Picasso and Andy Warhol are, perhaps without you being aware, a part of your life. Life [in Progress] creates situations where memory and vision intertwine in a way that makes them indistinguishable. Is the past only a part of memory or is it also a matter of a political and cultural conditionality? How much visionariness is there in our visions and is vision determined by death or the fear of death?

Life [in Progress] is composed of written, photo and video instructions. The visitors are at the same time the actors of the event, walking past the instructions they create the performance according to their own rhythm, belief and (non)activity. The performance takes place when the visitors decide so. The spectator emerges as the terminal spectActor, as a spectator and actor in one. The background music is also left up to the visitors. They walk through the general stages of life, the most intimate thus becoming the general and vice versa. The performance takes place here and now; we can also think of it as a re-enactment of another, photo-documented performance. Audience interventions leave behind an exhibition of life which means that Life [in Progress] can only be exhibited.

Opening night of the work in progress: 22 August 2008, festival Tanz Im August, Berlin
Concept and directed by: Janez Janša
Created and performed by: Caroline Decker, Dražen Dragojević, Teja Reba, Janez Janša in Janez Janša
Lights: Miran Šušteršič
Music: Dražen Dragojević
Photography: Janez Janša
Lead technician: Igor Remeta
Production: Maska
Executive producer: Jedrt Jež Furlan
Co-production: Tanz im August, Berlin, Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana (SMEEL), Ljubljana
Co-production of research project Vaditi svobodo: Tanzquartier, Dunaj

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Entertainment

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• maska
• janša
• teatre
• reba
• dragojević