Glej,
Jadran Resort

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About the performance

An unusual gathering of an unborn service worker, a cruise ship baptised by Margaret Thatcher, Mr Satoshi, and a guest trapped in an infinite introspective abyss.

How does history flow through our fears, and how have we learned to dance through these currents? How does the present reveal the paths to our destinations, and will the conductor wake us up when we arrive? How many “worlds” do we hold within ourselves, what are the locked places in which we meet, and why do we never venture there? Explorations and daydreams towards a single destination, an evolving territory, and a vanishing history— the walk-in novel Jadran Resort.

Jadran Resort explores the transformation of territories and societies whose future is shaped by the investment risks of international developers and the subordination to the needs of temporary tourists. Its symptoms are temporary forms of residence (for example in ready-made places such as Portopiccolo near Sistiana), wellness resorts and citizenship as an investment. Crypto-millionaires and cruise ships (e.g. MS Satoshi) also find shelter in Montenegrin ports to continue their journey to illegal shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh.

The novel in landscape is an attempt to move between various experiences in a collection of moments that deactivate the elaborate myth of reciprocity.

Jadran Resort explores a walk through this landscape, in the form of a ‘novel in landscape,’ situated amidst the images associated with the idea of the Mediterranean experience. Elastically connected to the context of contemporary Montenegro, Jadran Resort amplifies our complicit and implicit positions within these processes.

On a changing coastline and seascape, narratives are overlapping, imprinting, and dividing, all in an asymmetrical composition.

Credits

Authors: Natalija Vujošević, Neja Tomšič, Tara Langford
Contributor: Uroš Prah
Sound Design: Samo Dernovšek
Sound Design Assistance: Gašper Torkar, Vukša Vujošević, Luka Bernetič
Technical Execution for Audio Elements: Igor Vuk
Sewing: Martin Podržavnik
Metal Elements Manufacturing: David Drolc, Uroš Mehle
Voice: Barbara Poček, Rok Kunaver
Choir: Artforms Leeds Youth Singers
Led by: Diane Paterson and Emma Sargison
Recorded by: Matt Boyle
Recorded at: Music House, Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K.

Light Design: Brina Ivanetič
Technical Management: Grega Mohorčič
Technical Support: Brina Ivanetič, Žan Rantaša, Samo Dernovšek
Video Teasers: Tara Langford
Video: Borut Bučinel
Photo Documentation: Mario Zupanov
Audio Recordings: Tara Langford, Neja Tomšič, Barbara Poček
Graphic Design of Posters and Glej Paper: Ivian Kan Mujezinovic and Mina Fina / Grupa Ee
Executive and Creative Production: Barbara Poček
PR: Tina Malenšek, Paulina Pia Rogač
Production: Gledališče Glej
Support: Ministry of Culture RS, Municipality of Ljubljana
Thanks: ISU Institute

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About the authors

Neja Tomšič is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice merges research with drawing, video, poetry and performance. By uncovering overlooked and often hidden stories from history, her passion is to rethink dominant historical narratives, research into particularities, and create situations where new understandings of the present can be formed. She has been performing the Tea for Five: Opium Clippers for the past five years in 11 countries. Her artist book, the Opium Clippers, was awarded Best Slovenian artist book in 2017/2018 and Best book design at the Slovenian Book Fair. She is a founding member of the Nonument Group, an art collective that maps, archives and intervenes in forgotten, abandoned or demolished 20th-century monuments, public spaces and buildings, that have undergone a change in meaning. The Nonument Group was awarded the Plečnik Medal in 2021 for their contribution to the enrichment of architectural culture.

Natalija Vujošević is an artist and curator based in Montenegro. Vujošević’s artist practice is built from experiences of life in ruins of society, on the sidelines of global capitalism — the fatal transition to the Western Balkans, the neo-colonial politics, and the occupation of natural resources on the Adriatic coast.  She is the founder and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Montenegro, a nonprofit center launched in 2015 dedicated to contemporary art theory, education, research, and archives. The Institute, in cooperation with Trust For Mutual Understanding New York, established the first award for young artists in Montenegro. It is working with the National Library of Montenegro to develop an alternative book collection that consists of art theory, philosophy, and humanistic science written in the last three decades (after Yugoslavia).. Last year, she curated the Montenegrin pavilion at the Vence biennale and was part of the jury for the 35th International Graphic Biennial Ljubljana. 

Tara Langford is an artist, designer, and filmmaker based in Leeds, UK. Her practice explores generative modes of narrative and fictioning, working in collaboration with a range of participants and collaborators. Her research explores the possibilities and conditions for critical practices and interventions in corporate space in the wave of neoliberal privatisation of the creative industries in the UK since the New Labour years. She was an awardee British Film Institute Network 2023, part of New Contemporaries at the  Liverpool Biennial, and is Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London. She is developing a platform for connecting artists with businesses called sheccs.co and a publishing platform called Secret Press.

The performance will be available in three languages: Slovenian, English, and Montenegrin.

There are three performances per evening. Reserve you time slot!

 

After the performance, the venue will remain open for an additional hour, allowing guests to explore and enjoy the space further.