Duration: 60 minutes
The Machine is a duet between Bojana Robinson, a choreographer and dancer, and a breathing machine occasionally used by her daughter. Although the device has entered Bojana’s life to alleviate her child's medical condition, the artist explores her personal relationship with a technological device that directly and indirectly affects her life.
The choreographer explores the nature of the machine, tracing its evolvement into the performance’s subject and ways of embodying the relationship between devices and humans.
In Machine (Mašina), Bojana Robinson develops a singular artistic language that is equally personal, political and poetic ... three techniques (choreographic, physical and visual) move the centre away from the human, while addressing the fragility and (dys)function of bodies within the great capitalist machine that discards those who cannot be exploited. …In the middle of the piece, an audio recording of the first monologue of Medea in Slovenian (Robinson is Serbian but lives and works in Ljubljana) opens yet another reference in the rich net of meanings that this show unfolds through austere means – the machine is both the child and the mother, and the performer is the mother that becomes the machine.
Yasen Vasilev, Spring Back Magazine
The machine is an intermediary. The machine is a source of fear and discomfort, but also of safety and freedom. The machine evokes emotions, calls for emotions.
Dimitrije Kokanov
14,00 EUR
12,00 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Photo: Lana Požlep
Photo: Lana Požlep
Photo: Lana Požlep
Photo: Lana Požlep
Foto: Lana Požlep
Choreographed and performed by: Bojana Robinson
Author of the text and dramaturg: Dimitrije Kokanov
Set design and video: Dorian Šilec Petek
Music by: Manja Ristić*
*Composition Mašina M2 with an excerpt from the album Hidden Adriatic (in collaboration with Robertina Šebjanič), composition Basne - side B (in collaboration with Mark Vernon)
Costume design: Timotej Rosc
Lighting design: Igor Remeta
Text translation: Polona Glavan
Narrator: Polona Juh
Movement consultant: Kaja Lorenci
Photo: Matt Robinson
Production: Institute for Contemporary Art Practice and Theory 0.1
Coproduction: Cankarjev dom
Co-organised by: Društvo za kulturno produkcijo in afirmacijo umetniških procesov NAGIB, Maribor; Društvo umetnosti in kulture 47, Vrhnika; DUM - društvo umetnikov, Ljubljana
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana
Thanks to: Zahvala Pulmodata – Klavdija Ocepek Rožac, Marko Dovjak, Društvo HUD”O”, Eva Kraševec, Maša Pelko and Marko Marinčič.
Founder and main co-funder of Cankarjev dom’s Arts and Culture programme
