Performances:
12.09.2020, 19:00-20:30
13.09.2020, 19:00-20:30

Location: University Hospital, Blato

[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 an event set against the green rolling hillocks of Blato that were created through the sedimentation of construction waste. A space situated between a motorway, a powerline, an unfinished hospital, the embankment of river Sava and sandpit lakes with the adjacent ailing golf real estate development project. An infrastructural space that remains opaque to us despite the picturesque ambience of a technological landscape reclaimed by nature. It is an inversion of human-scale spaces we inhabit in our everyday. Its identity is the not-here of those everyday spaces. Just as the identity of everyday spaces is this space of displacement of people, power, water and material.

The Labour of Panic is an event that was created in the suspended time of the pandemic. The time of a sudden stoppage and an uncertain new beginning. However, for something to stop and something new to begin, for our everyday to change, a change must be first possible in the infrastructural space. This is the terrain where the contours are drawn and the vestiges are unearthed of that which cannot and that which might become.

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: : Zagreb ZET orchestra

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.

19:00-20:30