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Why Theatre? with Janez Jansa (the artist formerly known as Emil Hrvatin, Ljubljana)
RADICAL THEATRICAL: AN AFTERNOON WITH JANEZ JANSA
Janez Jansa is a Slovenian all-round talent, active as theoretician, dramaturge, director and creator of installations and performances, as well as the former editor in chief of MASKA, a bi-lingual (English/Slovene) performing arts journal and director of MASKA, institute for publishing, production and eduaction, based in Ljubljana. He studied sociology and theatre direction at the University of Ljubljana and theatre theory in Antwerp. His theatre performances and multi media installations have been presented throughout Europe and he lectured at various European universities and art schools. His works include 'Camillo-Memo 1.0: the construction of Theatre', 'Drive in Camillo', 'Miss Mobile', 'We are all Marlene Dietrich FOR- a performance for peacekeeping soldiers', and 'Pupilija, Papa Pupilo and the Pupilceks – reconstruction'. Janez Jansa is the initiatior (together with Peter Senk) of 'First World Camp, a platform for artistic research into the demilitarization of capsular societies'. Its research is focused on voluntary and involuntary modes of capsularity. He is also the author of a book about Jan Fabre (Jan Fabre-La discipline du chaos, le chaos de la discipline, Armand Colin, Paris 1994, published under his former name Emil Hrvatin) as well as of numerous essays.
During this afternoon, a selection of excerpts from Jansa’s work will be starting point for a discussion about (among others) his re-enactment of the first ever Yugoslavian art performance 'Pupilija, Papa Pupilo and the Pupilceks', his research on theatre in the US Army and the question of entertainment for peacekeeping soldiers on an international level, his research on refugee camps for first world citizens, his ideas on mobile phone theatre, his version of Guilio Camillo’s Renaissance Theatre of Memory, and why Emil Hrvatin changed his name into that of the current right wing prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Jansa, and what happened afterwards.
This Why Theatre? afternoon is a collaboration between Theatre Studies (UU), The Faculty of Theatre of the Utrecht School of the Arts and the Master in Choreography of the Amsterdam School of the Arts.
INFORMATION
Date / time: September, Thursday 18th, 16 hrs
Location: HKU, room Z15 (kleine zaal), Janskerkhof 18, Utrecht
17.30-18.30 Drinks in the bar at the HKU.
Entrance is free.
Please make a reservation, by sending an e-mail to whytheatre@theatrestudies.nl
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