What Joseph Beuys Told Me while I was Lying Dead in his Lap
written by: Boris Kadin, Bojan Jablanovec
performer: Boris Kadin
voice: Joseph Beuys
mask: Sanela Miloąević
video by and directed by: Bojan Jablanovec

Game with Toothpicks
written by: Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Bojan Jablanovec
performers: Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi
directed by: Bojan Jablanovec

Interview with an Artist
written by: Bojan Jablanovec, Kristian Al Droubi
performers: Kristian Al Droubi, Orcsik Roland
directed by: Bojan Jablanovec

producer: ©pela Troąt


Balkan Connection is the union of a Croat (Boris Kadin) and a Serb (Kristian Al Droubi) under the direction of a Slovene director (Bojan Jablanovec) in the context of Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović and Slovene philosopher and art theorist Bojana Kunst. In the three plays, they give their opinion about the intellectualization, mystification and impotence of contemporary art. The first piece is about categorizations in art, the second one reflects on a controversial scene of an earlier Via Negativa performance, while the third is a classical interview with an artist, with questions based on Bojana Kunst's texts.
Via Negativa is an international performing arts project whose work is focused on the relationship between performer and audience in real space and time. It is a loose community of artists, under the artistic direction of Bojan Jablanovec.

www.vntheatre.com

Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the local government of Ljubljana

You can watch the trailers of two performances (out of the three) here:
What Joseph Beuys Told Me while I was Lying Dead in his Lap
Game with Toothpicks