Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović

01 Name of author/applicant:

Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović

02 Role/category:

Use of media in performance design

03 Project title:

Freedom Landscapes

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

Freedom Landscapes is an artistic-political journey through the landscapes of anti-fascist and communist memories – a poetic and affective contribution to the struggle against erasing these memories from the European history. Diaries and interviews of women Partisans and Communists represent the starting point of this feminist landscape performance in which audience creates ‘shared views’ on Fascism today through a Cubist approach to space-time.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

The Slovenian Youth Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018; authors: Ana Vujanović and Marta Popivoda; performers: Damjana Černe, Vida Rucli, Katarina Stegnar; based on the testimonies by: Zora Konjajev, Sonja Vujanović and Zdenka Kidrič; additional texts: Damjana Černe and Katarina Stegnar; dramaturgy: Ana Vujanović; video: Marta Popivoda; direction and dramaturgy assistant: Tery Žeželj; choreography: Sheena McGrandles; set design: Matej Stupica; costume design collaborator: Slavica Janošević; director of photography: Lev Predan Kowarski; editing consultant: René Frölke; language consultant: Mateja Dermelj; expert consultants: Ana Hofman, PhD, Gal Kirn, PhD; dramaturgy assistant (internship): Jernej Potočan; camera assistant: Gaja Naja Rojec; translation to Slovenian: Sonja Dolžan; translation to English: Vid Ropoša, Sandra Lukič, Žarko Cvejić; English language consultant: Jana Renée Wilcoxen; light design: David Cvelbar; sound design: Silvo Zupančič; video engineering and mapping: Dušan Ojdanič; stage manager: Liam Hlede; choir: Amila Adrović, Teja Bitenc, Urška Cocej, Sabina Črnila, Polona Glavan, Anja Kocman, Mateja Kuntarič, Mojca Peternel, Ana Smerdu, Tanja Urek, Silvia Viviani, Gaja Vudrag and Anamarija Žagar

06 Photography:

Ivian Kan Mujezinović

07 Biography (not exceeding 100 words):

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, video artist and researcher. Her works have been exhibited in the galleries such as Tate Modern in London and MoMA in New York. She received Berlin Art Prize (AdK) for visual arts. Ana Vujanović holds PhD Degree in Humanities – Theatre Studies, and she is a researcher, writer, dramaturg and lecturer, focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. She is a mentor at the School for New Dance Development – SNDO in Amsterdam. She published a number of articles and four books, most recently Public Sphere by Performance (with B. Cvejić). The authors foster their collaborative practices in art and research, among other things, through the activities in the editorial collective ThK-Walking Theory. They often collaborate in the production of films, video installations and performances.