Direction: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Choreography: Nikolina Pristaš
Dramaturgy: Ivana Ivković
Performance: Antonia Dorbić, Ana Kreitmeyer, Marta Krešić, Priska Pia Pristaš, Kalliopi Siganou, Evita Tsakalaki
Music: Andro Giunio
Costumes: Silvio Vujičić
Scenography: Dinko Peračić i Miranda Veljačić / Platforma 9,81

Performance in DUBROVNIK: 06.04.2019 at 20:30
Art Workshop Lazareti

Reservations for the performance in Dubrovnik by email: arl@arl.hr. Ticket price is 30 kn.

Performances in ZAGREB: 12.04.2019 at 7 and 8 PM / 13.04.2019 at 7 and 8 PM
Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

Due to limited number of tickets for the Zagreb performances please choose date and time of the performance and reserve by email: produkcija@badco.hr or by phone: +385 91 583 6389. The entrance is free.

This unique project by Zagreb's theater collective BADco. the performance-exhibition The Foundation Pit , which premiered in 2018 at Richter Collection, begins from research of utopian premises for the planning of the future of housing, socialization and exchange, but also the immediate interconnection of life expectancy and its realization. In the tension between imagination, labor, youth and death, BADco. and our collaborators from the fields of dance, architecture, design and music explore the contemporary role of artists in relations of production and art practices.

This performative exploration of the legacy of utopian construction of the twentieth century explores the mega-structures of Vjenceslav Richter from the late 1960s (Synthurbanism, Heliopolis), the conceptual meta-structures of American architect Lebbeus Woods, and the dystopian-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov The Foundation Pit.

The performance-exhibition The Foundation Pit choreographically explores the specific structural principles and gravitational actuality of architectural design and the socrealistic representation of the body. Early Soviet socrealist depictions of accentuated physical strength, revolutionary fervor and the idealized future use precisely the figure of a young girl to represent the society as a whole.

Co-production: BADco. and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

Croatian translation of Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit courtesy of Breza Publishing.
Lebbeus Woods quotes © Estate of Lebbeus Woods; translation into Croatian: Ivana Ivković

Thank you: Vesna Meštrić, Božo Dujmović, Leo Modrčin, Lana Pukanić, Aleksandra Wagner, Ante Pejić, Tomislav Medak, Zrinka Užbinec, net.culture club mama

BADco.'s performance in Art Workshop Lazareti is realized through the program Scene Karantena and the program 30 years of Art Workshop Lazareti, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, City of Dubrovnik and the Foundation Kultura nova.

The performances in Zagreb are a part of the project A Step Further - Towards an Inclusive Culture, co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund.
The production was prepared in Culture Center Novi Zagreb, POGON Jedinstvo – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth and the Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
The event organization was co-funded under the ESF Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources. The content of this announcement is the exclusive responsibility of the Association for promotion of cultures Kulturtreger.
The performances are supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture and the Foundation Kultura nova.