Zanos i bijes / Rapture and rage, Ligna (DE/BG)

Zanos i bijes: Studija autoritarnih karaktera
LIGNA & Informbureau

Kako u Europi tako i diljem svijeta autoritarni pokreti, stranke i vlade su u porastu obećavajući nam nacionalni preporod kroz potpuno podčinjavanje pojedinca moćima homogenog kolektiva koji se protiv navodno iskvarenog svijeta treba boriti za nas. Pitamo se zašto je podčinjavanje, inicijalni korak prema fašizmu, toliko primamljivo da može biti i izvorom užitka, zašto se autoritarna vodstva pojavljuju kao rješenja u trenucima krize i konačno, kako bi trebalo oblikovati društvene odnose i situacije da bismo se suprotstavili takvoj fascinaciji?

Izvedba se izvodi u obliku više serija studija autoritativnih režima, a publika prati priču preko audio slušalica i na taj način aktivno sudjeluju u samoj izvedbi predstave.

Polazna i repetitivna točka predstave je povijesni estetizirani narativ fašističkog poretka u Europi: vladavina talijanskog nacionalnog pjesnika D’Annunzia u Rijeci - tada zvanoj Fiume - koja ove godine obilježava 100. obljetnicu okupacije. Iako taj događaj mnogi smatraju tek zanimljivom povijesnom anegdotom, on i danas baca sjenu na naše doba i treba ga analizirati i shvatiti i u današnje vrijeme ponovnog uspona autoritarizma.

Kolektiv LIGNA čine njemački medijski i izvedbeni umjetnici Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners i Torsten Michaelsen. Od 2002. godine kreiraju privremene kazališne situacije u kojima angažiraju svoju publiku u kolektiv stvaratelja, proizvodeći nekontrolirane efekte kojima preoblikuju prostor. U suradnji s bugarskim umjetnikom i producentom Stephanom Shtereffom (Informbureau) i s muzičarem Emiliano Gatsovom, producirali su Tajni Radio (2014.), Zanos i bijes (2017.) te Nonument (2019).

Rapture and Rage: Studies in the authoritarian character
LIGNA & Informbureau

In Europe and all over the world, authoritarian movements, parties and governments are on the rise, promising national rebirth in an allegedly corrupt world by the total submission of the individual to the power of a homogenous collective. Authors ask, why this submission – the initial movement towards fascism – is so appealing and even a source of pleasure, why authoritarian leadership seems to appear as a solution in moments of crisis and finally, what kind of societal relations and situations must be shaped to counter this fascination.

The performance is presented to the audience, which is equipped with headphones, as a series as studies, in which they themselves are the only ones who are acting.

The point of departure and constantly recurring historical narrative of the piece is the primal scene of aestheticised, fascist order in Europe: The reign of the Italian national poet D`Annunzio over Rijeka - then called Fiume - which celebrates this year its 100th anniversary. By many regarded as a sheer anecdote of history, it still casts an uncanny shadow into the present age, which, as the piece claims, needs to be analyzed and understood in a time of a resurgence of authoritarianism.

Produkcija//Production: LIGNA (Ole Frahm, Torsten Michaelsen, Michael Hueners), Informbureau (Stephan Shtereff/ Emilian Gatsov)
Trajanje / Duration: 80 min

LIGNA consists of the media and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen. Since 2002 they create temporary situations, that employ their audience as a collective of producers – an association that can produce uncontrollable effects which challenge the regulation of a space. With the Bulgarian artist and producer Stephan Shtereff (Informbuerau) and the musician Emilian Gatsov they produced Secret Radio (2014), Rapture and Rage (2017) and Nonument (2019).