Bojana Kunst/Damjana Černe
Knitting Reveries / Träumereien beim Stricken
Mousonturm Saal
Lecture/Performance
- 21.10.2023, 07.00 pmAdmission free, please book a free ticket
„Everything is entangled, which is why you have to be very careful when you start knitting. Count the stitches carefully and make sure they don’t escape from the needle. Once you’ve knitted something, it will be easier, but if you’re not careful, it will fall apart, knot up and you’ll have to count again.” That’s what Oma used to say to little Bojana. So many years later, they are talking again – this time on a theatre stage and at the intersection between feminism, politics, ethics and ecology, in a mix of memory and reflection. Caring is not only an intimate commitment, it is also a political question. In her theatre essay, Bojana Kunst, philosopher and performance theorist Bojana Kunst, together with her co-actor Damjana Černe, reflects on it and weaves it with caution, depth and care.
Duration: 60 min.
Language: English
German premiere
Cast & Credits
Boštjan Narat (curator)
Bojana Kunst (author and performer)
Damjana Černe (performer)
Sven Horvat (sound technician)
Kristina Kokalj (light technician)
Demijan Pintarič (production assistant, technical support)
Co-produced by The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana) and Moment Maribor
Das Projekt „Slowenien – Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2023, ein Modell zur nachhaltigen internationalen Förderung des slowenischen literarischen Schaffens, wird von der Republik Slowenien und der Europäischen Union im Rahmen des Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung kofinanziert.
Biography
Bojana Kunst
Bojana Kunst is a philosopher, dramaturge and performance theorist, a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. She was a researcher at the University of Ljubljana and a guest researcher at the University of Antwerp (2002). She was a DAAD guest professor at the University of Hamburg (2009 – 2012). She has lectured and taught seminars, workshops and laboratories in various academic institutions, theaters and artistic organizations across Europe, and has continuously worked with independent artistic initiatives and groups of artists. Her research interests are contemporary performance and dance, art theory and philosophy of contemporary art. Among her books are: Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism 2015 (in Slovenian, English, Polish and Danish language) and The Life of Art. Transversal Lines of Care, Ljubljana, 2021 (in Slovenian and German).