Performances:
10th July 2020, 20:30-22:30
11th July 2020, 20:30-22:30

Location: Grobničko polje (Grobnik Valley), Rijeka, Croatia

[Admission to the performances is free. Please confirm your arrival at produkcija@badco.hr. With confirmation you will receive instructions for arrival.]

The Labour of Panic is a happening set in the open space of Grobničko polje (Grobnik Valley). In this infrastructural space of large proportions, speeds, and charges, we find no point of entry because, even though one can vividly survey this place of contact between a natural environment and technological systems – power lines, an airport, a car racetrack, a motorway – it is an inversion of the humanly proportioned space in which we normally live, drive, and walk. Its identity is a not-there. Just like the identity of the everyday is this infrastructure of power lines, intersections, and networks that support it.

The Labour of Panic is a happening created in suspended time. A time with a quite certain endpoint and a rather uncertain beginning. However, to allow the everyday to be something else, to allow something to end and something new to begin, the infrastructural space itself must allow the possibility of change. That is the terrain where one outlines the contours and excavates the remains of that which cannot come to be and that which may yet occur.

The Labour of Panic is the final part of the trilogy that began with the performance titled Iskop (The Foundation Pit), staged in 2018 at the house of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and continued with rePublika u orkestru (rePublic in the Orchestra Pit), premièred in October 2019 at Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka. The trilogy thematises the relations between work, utopia, and confrontation with impossibilities amid the threat of climate catastrophe.

Performance: Nataša Antulov, Ana Marija Brđanović, Ema Crnić, Ana Kreitmeyer, Marta Krešić, Nikolina Pristaš, Kalliopi Siganou, Aleksandra Stojaković Olenjuk, Evita Tsakalaki

Orchestra: Puhački orkestar KUD-a “Sloga” Ravna Gora

Direction: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Choreography: Nikolina Pristaš in collaboration with Ana Kreitmeyer, Marta Krešić, Evita Tsakalaki, Kalliopi Siganou and Ema Crnić
Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec, Tomislav Medak, Nataša Antulov
Text: Goran Ferčec
Music: Gordan Tudor
Costumes: Silvio Vujičić, The motives on the men’s clothes are deconstructed imprints derived from Slobodni crtež (A Free Drawing), a 1980 artwork by Vjenceslav Richter
Light design: Goran Petercol
Graphic design and illustration: Siniša Ilić
Collaborator in spatial analysis : Leo Modrčin
Recording and audio processing: Saša Predovan
Technical support: Bruno Butorac
Translation: Žarko Cvejić
Production: Lovro Japundžić
Drone piloting and aerial filming: Goran Skelac i Vatroslav Španiček
Photography: Tanja Kanazir
Dog: Lava
Thank you: Davorka Begović, Vesna Meštrić, Alan Vukelić, Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka, Eurokaz.

Co-production: BADco. and Drugo More
The production of The Labour of Panic was supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Department for Culture, Zagreb City Council for Culture
Organizer of the program: Drugo More
The program is part of DOPOLAVORO flagship of the RIJEKA 2020 – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE project
Rijeka - Port of Diversity
The production was prepared in Culture Center Novi Zagreb.

The work of Drugo More and BADco. is supported by Kultura Nova Foundation.

Cover photo: Siniša Ilić for The Labour of Panic BADco. (markers on paper, 21x29,7cm, 2020)