STUDY FOR THE LAST EGOISTIC PERFORMANCE

Theatre exhibition by Mare Bulc

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Directed by
Mare Bulc

Video/photography by
Nejc Saje

Scenography by
Damir Leventić

Performed by
Alja Kapun, Medea Novak, Ana Hribar and Miha Brajnik

Study for the Last Egoistic Performance is a theatre exhibition about life and afterlife of a theatre piece and about the death and rebirth of (the) theatre author(s).

Study for the Last Egoistic Performance is a theatre exhibition where four actors, a scenographer and a video artist exhibit twenty (20) different re-interpretations of the four (4) performances from Mare Bulc’s No History / Know History series that Mare Bulc presented in the 2003 and 2004.

Study for the Last Egoistic Performance is the actor’s, video artist’s and scenographer’s new intimate view of the work and the topics Mare Bulc was dealing with in his past work. Recycled and reinterpreted by new artists, the topics - ‘artist’s sacrifice for the art’, ‘the system of the art system’ etc. - are re-presented in front of the (gallery) audience.

Study for the Last Egoistic Performance is taking the form of an exhibition – a theatre exhibition - with a constant stream of live performance and exhibited video, photographs, written documents, costumes and props (of the same performance pieces taking place live). Theatre exhibition is open four (4) hours a day, for (max.) three (3) days in a row. The audience can enter and exit the exhibition space freely.

As the director of the Study for the Last Egoistic Performance, Mare Bulc wanted to be less (of a) theatre director and more (like) a curator. His work with actors, a video artist and a scenographer was more about talk and discussion, and less about “directing them”. In the beginning he partly instructed them but afterwards he let them find their own interpretations and re-interpretations, in order to re-invent his old performances through new and at the same time re-cycled material. At the end of the process Mare Bulc arranged the material in a new unique exhibition – theatre exhibition: Study for the Last Egoistic Performance.

A four year research project
Study for the Last Egoistic Performance is the next-to-last event in the four year research project No History / Know History. Its author Mare Bulc made it a “side project” to his studies of theatre directing at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT). The four year project is a platform for the author to contemplate about contemporary theatre and to confront it with the classical drama theatre, as it is being taught at the AGRFT. The author examines the areas and strategies on the borderline between theatre, performance art, and visual art, as well as the system, history and authorship of art. He will conclude the research with the performance titled Last Egoistic Performance at the end of year 2006.

Director
Mare Bulc is a theatre director, performance artist and multimedia artist from Ljubljana. He has a degree from communication studies at Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana and is finishing his theatre directing studies at AGRFT, Ljubljana in 2006. In 1994 he co-founded Dejmo stisnt teater theatre and founded No History – Institute for Contemporary Arts ten years later. He has been a member of international SilentCell Network platform for several years. He is also a co-founder of the P.E.A.C.E. organization and co-author of Cream of Contemporary Slovenian Art project. At the end of 2006 he will be finishing the work on the four-year research No History / Know History project.

Actors
Alja Kapun is last year student of acting at AGRFT in Ljubljana. She also studied at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD).
Medea Novak is last year student of acting at AGRFT in Ljubljana.
Ana Hribar graduated at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and is a second year student of acting at AGRFT in Ljubljana.
Miha Brajnik is a theatre and movie actor. He is a co-founder of Dejmo stisnt teater from Vrhnika, Slovenia

Video Artist
Nejc Saje is a video artist and a photographer. He often collaborates with theatre authors. His previous theatre collaboration was with Slovene director Sebastijan Horvat - winner of the Young Director Award at Salzburg Festival 2005 – for Alamut, theatre piece produced by the Slovene National Theatre SNG Drama Ljubljana. Saje did the video for the piece.

Scenographer
Damir Leventić is a movie (Rustling Landscapes, The Last Supper) and theatre scenographer. He is a co-founder, actor and scenographer of Dejmo stisnt teater.

Opening
December 18th 2005, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Production
Produced by E.P.I. Center, Ljubljana
Coproduced by No History, Ljubljana
We would like to thank Škuc Gallery for help in realizing the project.
Thanks also to: Bojana Kunst, Martina Kokovnik, Maks Soršak, Jure Novak, Branko Potočan.

Tour Contacts
+ 386 31 391 419
www.nohistory.org
marebulc@gmail.com
No History, Jenkova 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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