participatory walk, 40 min
Wednesday, 18 Sep, at 17:15 and 18:30
Cukrarna, lobby
Queuing and waiting – an imposed break in our daily lives.
A time in between, a non-time, an everyday action that puts our body in a very concrete state, forces us to stop, and positions us in relations of power or vulnerability depending on the context and the purpose of waiting.
In our busy lives, waiting is an obstacle. It is not in accordance with the rhythm of our society, in which we always want to be served first, get to the goal the fastest way possible, achieve everything quickly. Waiting creates anxiety, it breaks our individualistic approach to life. It forces us to stop. So, could we instead of experiencing this imposed break as an annoyance, look at it differently? Could it be considered not as lost time, wasted in the expectation of something we want to achieve, get, accomplish, buy, but as time we gain, time that is given to us?
Fent Cua / While waiting – walking and waiting is a guided walk that takes the audience through various proposals that wish to ease the excruciatingly annoying waiting and, at the same time, makes us question the waiting itself.
The project takes inspiration from different aspects of waiting and puts the experience of the audience in the centre of the research. The authors Urša Sekirnik and Jou Serra first materialised the research process in a participatory performance, they also created a Queueing Survival Kit as an accompanying sub-project, and lately, the project is presented as a guided walk.
Urša Sekirnik je leta 2011 diplomirala na SEAD, leta 2014 pa tudi iz kulturologije na FDV. Trenutno deluje kot plesalka in ustvarjalka na področju sodobnih scenskih umetnosti. V njenih projektih je vključevanje publike v proces in izvedbo eno izmed glavnih polj zanimanja, zato se v zadnjih letih osredotoča na ustvarjanje participatornih predstav (Radio Hit, 2018; Fent Cua / Medtem ko smo čakali, 2020; Bestiari Dixit, 2022; (P)ogled, 2023).
COLOPHON
Production: Emanat
Co-production: Antic Teatre, Espai de creació, Barcelona l’Estruch – Espai de creació de les arts en viu, Sabadell Festival Escena Poblenou, Barcelona
Partners: KUD NUM, Bunker / Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, SVŠGUGL, Associació cultural La Visiva, Barcelona, La Poderosa, Barcelona, JSKD.
Financial support: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture RS.
