Trigger
TRIGGER 2022
29. 3. – 1. 4. / Maribor, Ljubljana
Four days of performances, discussions, artist talks and discovering Slovenian and international trends in performing arts. We are announcing the TRIGGER 2022 application and revealing exciting artists that will open your doors into Slovenian independent performing arts production.
Discursive programme is in English with an option of Slovenian translation, unless otherwise stated in the programme. Performances are either in English or surtitled in English, unless otherwise stated in the programme (*).
TRIGGER is a platform for internationalization of contemporary independent performing arts. We are developing TRIGGER in co-production with Centre for Creativity and in partnership with Bunker, Glej Theatre, City of Women, Moment, Pekinpah, Mladinsko Theatre and Maska (Nova pošta programme). Each year the showcase features productions from several other Slovenian producers. This year we will show works produced by Delak, Emanat and Sploh.
The fourth edition of TRIGGER platform is opening the question of the future of international collaboration and artistic distribution under new circumstances, brought about by health, ecological and social crises. Besides the showcase we will also offer an extensive discourse programme and a conference, focusing on decolonization of aesthetics.
TRIGGER your passion for new performative aesthetics, inspiring practices and international allyships. Become part of TRIGGER platform.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Maribor
TRIGGER Pre-programme: Conference on Decentralisation of Arts. Focus: Audience Building
Production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
10:30–11:00 (location: Intimni oder, GT22)
Conference Registration
11:00 (location: Intimni oder, GT22)
So to Speak: A Cycle of Theatre Essays. Blaž Šef: Five Plans for Microglobalisation // theatre essay // duration: 45 minutes // co-production: The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska) and Moment
History of emergence and decline of The Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT). From nothing to something.
*in Slovenian without English translation
12:30 (location: Intimni oder, GT22)
Decentralising Audience Building: Lessons and Inspirations // panel discussion // duration: 120 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
How do we approach audience building in environments outside centres of power? What are examples of innovative practices from Slovenia and how do we build long term relations through art in our communities? This program wishes to stimulate discussion between various stakeholders in the Slovenian performing arts landscape.
Welcoming statement: Barbara Poček and Nika Bezeljak (Ljubljana and Maribor TRIGGER team) and Marko Podjavoršek (Centre for Creativity)
Opening note and moderation: Alma R. Selimović (Bunker, Drugajanje, Young Curators Club)
Co-moderation: Nika Bezeljak (Moment, Festival Prestopi/Crossings)
Speakers:
- Tamara Bračič Vidmar (Bunker, The Audience Council)
- Miha Firšt (House of Culture Celje, Ambassador of Culture)
- Anja Koleša (Cultural Centre Kamnik, Creative Quarter Barutana)
- Nina Ukmar (Cultural Centre Kosovelov dom Sežana)
15:30–16:45 (location: Judgement Tower)
Matej Recer, Gregor Zorc: How Did We Get Here? // devised performance // duration: 105 minutes // co-production: Moment and Glej Theatre
How many deaths are needed for us to live?
*in Slovenian without English translation
TRIGGER 2022
17:00–18:00 (location: Fani&Rozi)
TRIGGER Registration, Coffee, Snacks and Networking // official TRIGGER kick-off
18:00–19:30 (location: Judgement Tower)
TRIGGER partners: Get to Know Us! // presentation with Q&A // duration: 90 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
Get to know the coordinates and context of the Slovenian independent performing art scene through the eyes of TRIGGER producers. Moderated by Tjaša Pureber (Glej Theatre).
20:00–20:45 (location: Intimni oder, GT22)
Zala Ana Štiglic, Zoran Petrovič: Victoria 2.0 // devised performance // duration: 45 minutes // production: Moment; co-production: GT22
Winners are confident. Winners are passionate. Winners never quit. Winners have partners. Winners have sex. Winners win. Performance on the boundaries of reality and illusion.
21:00–23:00 (location: GT22)
Let’s Talk some More (informally) // official TRIGGER socialising event
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Ljubljana
11:00–12:10 (location: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre)
Nataša Živković, Sara Šabec: Everything Is Alright // devised performance // duration: 70 minutes // production: City of Women, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
No education without participation! First-hand tales from high school students about the kind of education they want. And deserve. Hey, the kids are alright!
14:00–17.00 (location: Old Power Station)
TRIGGER Community Lunch And Networking Event
*12 euros per person, cash only (on site) – food and drinks included
17:00–18.00 (location: Old Power Station)
Matija Ferlin: Sad Sam Lucky // performance // duration: 60 minutes // production: Emanat; co-production: Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre national de la danse, Zagreb Dance Center
Part of a conceptual series Sad Sam. A physical response to the work of the Slovenian avant-garde poet Srečko Kosovel. A highly physical, turbulent and emotional homage.
*transfer from Old Power Station to the next performance in Kino Šiška will be organized
18:30–19:40 (location: Kino Šiška)
Irena Tomažin, Jule Flierl: U.F.O. Hommage to Katalin Ladik // devised performance // duration: 70 minutes // production: Irena Z. Tomažin + Jule Flierl; co-production: Sploh Institute, SOPHIENSÆLE, Charleroi Danse Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, PACT Zollverein
A homage to Katalin Ladik that blurs the boundaries between poetry, acting and experimental voice work, while continuing the two artists’ own research.
21:00–22:54 (location: Old Power Station)
Matej Kejžar: Movements 9 // performance // duration: 114 minutes // production: Pekinpah; co-production: Matej Kejžar
9 pieces, 9 movements. A “favourite album” as a choreographic frame where dance resonates between proto-knowing, rhythm, musical force, listening and hearing, narration and abstraction.
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Ljubljana
12.00–14:00 (location: Old Power Station)
Caspar Nieuwenhuis and Barbara Poček: Let’s Talk About It: Artists and Their Work // moderated discussion with Q&A about performances from 29 and 30 March // duration: 60 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
What is the context of the shows you have seen, who are the artists behind them and all the important questions you can think of to ask. Face to face with TRIGGER artists.
14:00–16:00 (location: Old Power Station)
Urška Brodar, Grzegorz Reske: Decolonising the Aesthetics // panel discussion // duration: 120 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform, co-production: Centre for Creativity
In the past years we are witnessing an increasing importance to speak about our pasts and uncover the effects and biases colonial history has had on our current positions. In this discussion we will try to approach this topic from the point of view of the Eastern vs. Western Europe and the concept of the aesthetic bias and the impact it has on the career of the artists.
At the time when the European Union is offering enormous amounts of space and funding for international collaborations Eastern and Western artists are stepping onto the same terrain, seemingly equal. The context from which Eastern artists are stepping onto that terrain, however, is at best recognised with a sort of patronising orientalism or complete ignorance of the structural conditions in which their art is being created. Those conditions are influencing the produced aesthetics. How do we challenge these processes, positions of privilege, and start decolonising the Arts in this context as well?
16:00–16:45 (location: Old Power Station)
Lea Kukovičič: FORSALE // artist talk // duration: 45 minutes // production: Bunker
An auction house for theatre performances. The next step in the history of ownership and the future of the ephemeral economy.
18:00–20:00 (location: Glej Theatre)
Mark Požlep, Maxime Berthou: SOUTHWIND // cinematographic essay and artist talk // duration: 120 minutes // production of the essay: Forceps media; production of the upcoming documentary performance: Glej Theatre and SPRING Festival
Paddle steamer, 1712 miles of the Mississippi River and two artists in the heart of colonial land. Practice-based research and performance in the making in co-production with SPRING Festival.
21:00–22:45 (location: Mladinsko Theatre)
Žiga Divjak: Fever // devised performance // duration: 105 minutes // production: Mladinsko Theatre, steirischer herbst ’21 and Maska
Climate crisis, class society and neoliberal capitalism. Is violence the answer? A performance about the limits of one’s own consciousness and historical responsibility to change the world.
Friday, 1 April 2022
Ljubljana
10:00–13:00 (location: Art Hotel)
Meet the Artists and Producers // scheduled meetings // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
Meet, talk and plot with your favorite artists and their producers and plan to conquer the world together! You can schedule individual meetings or ask us to introduce you to someone who sparked your curiosity or have us curate the meeting for you. Let’s find each other.
16:00–16:45 (location: Glej Theatre)
Zala Ana Štiglic, Zoran Petrovič: Victoria 2.0 // devised performance // duration: 45 minutes // production: Moment; co-production: GT22
Winners are confident. Winners are passionate. Winners never quit. Winners have partners. Winners have sex. Winners win. Performance on the boundaries of reality and illusion.
20:00–21:00 (location: Old Power Station)
Beton Ltd.: Große Erwartungen | Great Expectations // devised performance // duration: 60 minutes // production: Bunker
After ecology, transitional/growing‑up loss of illusions, the impotency of resistance, generational angst, time has come for great expectations and the future of those who have everything. To lose.
21:00–22:00 (location: Osmo/za)
Based on the motifs of the play Life Is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca: Finalizem::Fonemi. Directed by Dragan Živadinov // theatre production form // duration: 60 minutes // production: Delak
Life is a dream. Theatre is a medium of baroque illusion. Hail to the theatre spotlight!
22:00–23:00 (location: Osmo/za)
Caspar Nieuwenhuis and Barbara Poček: Let’s Talk About It: Artists and Their Work // moderated discussion with Q&A about performances from 31 March and 1 April // duration: 60 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
What is the context of the shows you have seen, who are the artists behind them and all the important questions you can think of to ask. Face to face with TRIGGER artists.
Saturday, 2 April 2022
Ljubljana
10:00–14:00 (location: Glej Theatre)
Pippa Bailey: Power and Change // workshop // duration: 240 minutes // production: TRIGGER platform; co-production: Centre for Creativity
Power dynamics in the performing arts are real. And they create hierarchies. What can we do to address them and change the power dynamic towards a more inclusive working environment?
ABOUT THE TRIGGER PLATFORM
TRIGGER is a platform for contemporary performing arts. Glej Theatre is developing it with Centre for Creativity, Bunker, City of Women, Moment, Pekinpah, Mladinsko Theatre and Maska (The New Post Office programme). The main purpose of the platform is to strengthen competences of independent producers and artists, especially in the field of internationalisation and international connections.
The platform combines a showcase of performances with potential for the international market, series of discussions, lectures and workshops with curators from international festivals, agents, and specialists for distribution and international cooperation.
The purpose of the platform is therefore to gain specialised knowledge of developing strategies and methodology to distribute, network and internationalise contemporary performing arts.
The platform’s objectives:
- Improving competitive options for Slovenian artists in the international market.
- Improving the situation for Slovenian producers of independent performing arts.
- Improving opportunities for distribution of independent performances on national and international level.
- Creating a space for skill exchange in fields without formal or informal opportunities for education and development (professions in production, management and technical support).
- Creating and maintaining connections with important European festivals and producers.
- Promoting Slovenian performers and performances.
- Long-term influence on diversity of domestic production in relation to exchange of good practice examples and experiences from abroad.
- Greater stability of Slovenian producers.
Participating producers:
Co-producer:
Centre for Creativity
Strategic development:
Glej Theatre, Bunker Ljubljana, City of Women, Moment Maribor, Pekinpah, Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana (The New Post Office programme)
TRIGGER 2022 project partners:
Delak, Emanat, Sploh
