{"id":3833,"date":"2022-11-03T19:48:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2022\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:16:53","slug":"barbara-matijevic-in-giuseppe-chico-zaslonajstniki-ii-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2022\/en\/barbara-matijevic-in-giuseppe-chico-zaslonajstniki-ii-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Matijevi\u0107 and Giuseppe Chico: Screenagers vol. II (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"In the DIY musical Screenagers II, the two artists, who captivated the audience at the 2017 CoFestival with their duet for dancer and screen Forecasting, now address the contradictory relations between the digital and the material world, where the neurotic production of the imagination struggles to create images that can provide emotional relief for the individual.<\/p>\n

The opus of the Matijevi\u0107 \u2013 Chico tandem is special because it combines a range of artistic skills belonging to different media (from storytelling, dramaturgy, technology, performance and choreography) in unpredictable and refreshing combinations that make the ways of contemporary life and the use of available contemporary technologies visible in different relations in a surprising, humorous and ironic manner. Like the absurd objects that the estrangement effects put on display.<\/p>\n

Screenagers II is the second performance in the series in which the Matijevi\u0107 \u2013 Chico tandem approaches the World Wide Web and its tools in an \u00bbarchaeological\u00ab and \u00bbanthropological\u00ab way. By unearthing abandoned tools and studying the traces they left on concrete lives at different points in time, which is especially fun given that we tend to associate these two sciences with the material, the tangible and the vital. In a performance in the form of a reflective and DIY musical, the performer presents a collection of songs about her vague, blurred emotions without being able to name them properly. Through her songs, she attempts to capture the pain, demons, vibrations, joy and cravings that wander through the wilderness of her psychological landscape and, in a peculiar way, resemble the digital online horizon, which takes shape on stage in the form of QR codes, chat-bots and seductive green screens. Given that pop music songs have usually served as a kind of repository of shared experiences, a building of social consciousness, as Mark Fisher argues in an essay, and also as bridges between generations, Screenagers II proposes a collection of highly idiosyncratic folk music as the equivalent of the digital age: a kind of world in which everything collapses and submerges into everything else, in the manner of a chaotic flood and in accordance with the online life. In doing so, the creators ask what has happened to our psyche and imagination that we seem to be able to swallow it all and keep browsing.<\/p>\n

Barbara Matijevi\u0107 studied languages, literature and stage acting in Zagreb, and in parallel she worked in dance and performance (Boris Charmatz, Joris Lacoste, Bojan Jablanovec). Giuseppe Chico was introduced to theatre in Bari, Italy, through a series of theatre education phases, and later in Paris, where he collaborated with Joao Fiadeiro, Vera Montero, Julyen Hamilton, Mark Tompkins, etc. He also performed for several years with the Mille Plateaux Associ\u00e9s. Ten years ago, Matijevi\u0107 and Chico started their collaboration with Premier Stratageme in Paris and had a series of performances that enjoyed major international success.<\/p>\n

Concept, direction and text:<\/strong> Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijevi\u0107
\nPerformance:<\/strong> Barbara Matijevi\u0107
\nMusic:<\/strong> Nenad Kova\u010di\u0107
\nTechnical direction:<\/strong> Viktor Krasni\u0107
\nLighting design:<\/strong> Marino Frankola
\nLighting technician:<\/strong> Sa\u0161a Fistri\u0107
\nAnimation:<\/strong> Martina Livovi\u0107 & Giuseppe Chico
\nVideo:<\/strong> Giuseppe Chico
\nConcept and development of digital application:<\/strong> Pierre-Erick Lefebvre
\nCoding:<\/strong> Dubravka \u0160poljari\u0107
\nVoice coach:<\/strong> Fabijan Komljenovi\u0107
\nExecutive production, distribution:<\/strong> Silvija Stipanov
\nAdministration, production and distribution:<\/strong> Bureau de production Retors particulier
\nDevelopment and management:<\/strong> Margot Qu\u00e9n\u00e9herv\u00e9
\nProduction:<\/strong> Artistic organisation OMNIBUS\u2022Premier Stratag\u00e8me
\nCo-production:<\/strong> Theatre and Cinema Choisy-le-Roi<\/p>\n

Organised by:<\/strong> Kino \u0160i\u0161ka and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre<\/p>\n

Sunday, 27th of November 2022 at 6:00 p.m.
\nLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Stage under the stars
\nIntermedia performance<\/p>\n

Duration: 75 min
\nEntry: 7\/9 EUR<\/a><\/p>\n

The guest appearance in Slovenia was made possible with the support of TEATROSKOP, a regional program for performing arts initiated by the French Institute and the French Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n

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