dimensions of encounter
DIMENSIONS OF ENCOUNTER
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we can observe the migration of ideas from material reality to the digital world in all spheres of art. Digital reality is a fictional world that allows us the establish a community. The project Dimensions of Encounter is a response to the collective changes in society, as well as to the changes of each individual being. Every act has its consequence: everything that exists is dependent on the state that was before that. A memory of an individual creates a context and defines us all as unreliable, subjective narrators. The space of our project is neither in the material nor in the digital space. It's a hybrid that is in dialogue with both of them. The project opens up questions about the contact itself, about mutual bonds and about the proof of their very existence.
Dimensions of Encounter is an art tribe of four people where one creates the space, another creates the sound, the remaining two are left there to play. Never waste a good crisis. At the time of the pandemic, our purpose remains the same, except for the conditions around us.
Premiere: 21.06.2021, PTL Theater, Ljubljana
Concept, Choreography and Performance: Karolina Gaja Rupnik Caruso, Alja Branc
Authors: Alja Branc, Jaka Komac, Karolina Gaja Rupnik Caruso, Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin
Video creation and performance: Jaka Komac
Visual and photography: Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin
Prodcution: PTL Theater, Ljubljana
manufacture of immoral people
MANUFACTURE OF IMMORAL PEOPLE
I am interested in everyday situations where personal interpretations of what is moral and a desire for self-realization cause immoral behavior.
I do not like it when people hurt other people. I do not like when people hurt me. And I do not like it when I hurt other people. The truth is that it happens all the time. I feel the presence of individualism in the society, the glorification of an individual and his goals. I feel overloaded with ideas about what moral behavior actually is. Aside from that, I am confronted with situations where lies cause less damage than the truth.
In this context, I would like to introduce the celebration of these situations with the slogan: "It is illegal to kill a man, but it is not illegal to kill his dreams."
Concept: Alja Branc
Performance and co-creation: Karolina Gaja Rupnik Caruso, Anna Jacsó, Alja Branc
Premiere: December 20 2017, 19:00 / Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 15 min