
Agenda
Emerging from the need to remix, rearrange and redistribute images, bodies and meanings, Agenda is inspired by the art of collage. A medium born in times of political crisis, violence and shattered certainties, it returns here as a contemporary language for performance art. The performance furthers long-term research into the concept of “the stranger,” and experiences of otherness, difference and strangeness, this time through the physical encounter of fragments, gestures and affects. Agenda creates a space where belonging does not arise from unity or origin, but from open composition processes, friction and the constant reevaluation of relationships.
Each performer enters Agenda with their own “agenda”, i.e., their personal interests, impulses, and performative language, which will develop and gradually transform over the course of the performance. They do not create representations of identities or types. Instead, they function as trajectories of desire, repeating, colliding and intertwining. The common element becomes a shared groove, a dance space that connects individuals without disturbing their differences. Thus, Agenda creates a temporary community of many that become one, though never definitively — always as an open, living, unfinished process of being together.
Credits
- Concept and direction
- Simone Aughterlony, Saša Božić
- Performance
- Katarina Barešić, Boris Barukčić, Ivana Bojanić, Dora Brkarić, Viktoria Bubalo, Margareta Firinger, Nic Lloyd, Šimun Stankov, Melissa Valette, Thomas Vantuycom
- Costumes
- Marita Čopo
- Scenography
- Igor Ruf
- Lights
- Joseph Wegmann
- Music
- Nikola Krgović
- Production
- Ida Klemenčić
- Public relations
- Ivana Sansević
- Produced by
- de facto, Zagreb Dance Center, Dance Week Festival, Zagreb
- Supported by
- Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia, Zagreb City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Embassy of Switzerland in Croatia, Goethe Institut Zagreb