BADco.

memories are made of this... performance notes (2006)

Pravdan Devlahović, Ana Kreitmeyer, Krešimir Mikić, Nikolina Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec & Damir Bartol Indoš

Directed by / Režija: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Dramaturgy / Dramaturgija: Ivana Ivković

Collaborators / Suradnici: Tor Lindstrand (prostor/space), Daniel Turing (software), Nicolas Siepen (film), Miljenko Bengez (lights/svjetlo), Silvio Vujičić (costumes/kostimi)
Design / Dizajn: Gordan Karabogdan

a flickr set of photos from the premiere Nov 2006 / flicker set fotografija sa premijere u studenom 2006

memories are made of this... - Krešo Mikić (2006)

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Memories Are Made Of This… performance notes is a project which, metaphorically speaking, travels within a complex topology of memory. It borrows the name of a popular Dean Martin song whilst exercising F. Scott Fitzgerald’s observation that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” BADco. is approaching the topic of memory via a process intrinsic to it – forgetting – suggesting two possibilities of entering this complex subject matter: to think in terms of vacuity, blankness, deletion, and further on, mental fissures and emotional crack-ups.

The project operates as a notebook, a collection of performance notes and/or notes for a performance. A note is a reminder, a souvenir of some past situation, without an exposition yet open to all possible re-interpretations and fictionalizations, a marker of the possibility of a perpetual divergence.

The performance is a kind of kaleidoscopic dérive through the fragmented textual tissue of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Crack-Up”, situational and atmospheric components of films dealing with memories, traces of dance materials and its spatial structures, and distorted real-time video material, all put together so as to create a complex network of performance elements combined in such a way to allow ambiguous readings, interpretational short-circuits and crack-ups in one’s ability to deduce a coherent linear whole out of things presented.

Joining the regular cast of BADco. on this occasion are Krešimir Mikić and Damir Bartol Indoš.

“Instead of being sorry for yourself, listen” she said. (She always says “Listen,” because she thinks while she talks /really/ thinks.)
So she said: “Listen. Suppose this wasn’t a crack in you – suppose it was a crack in the Grand Canyon.”
“The crack is in me,” I said heroically.
“Listen! The world only exists in your eyes-your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you’re trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if i ever cracked, I’d try to make the world crack with me. Listen! the world only exists through your apprehension of it, and so it’s much better to say that it’s not you that’s cracked-it’s the Grand Canyon.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up

VIDEO: Memories… on Nova TV

memories are made of this... (2006)

Posuđujući naslov poznate pjesme Deana Martina, nova predstava u formi izvedbene bilježnice, približava nam mehanizme zaboravljanja, emotivne potrošnje i prisjećanja na trenutke i prostore koji su prazni ili ih nikad nije ni bilo. Uz već stalne članove u novoj predstavi BADco. nastupaju Krešimir Mikić, Damir Bartol Indoš i Zrinka Užbinec.

Umjesto da se stalno sažaljevaš, slušaj – kaže ona (Ona uvijek kaže ‘Slušaj’ zato što misli dok govori, zaista misli.) I tako ona kaže: Slušaj. Recimo da ta pukotina nije u tebi – recimo da je u Grand Canyonu.
Pukotina u meni, rekoh ja herojski.
Slušaj! Svijet postoji samo u tvojim očima – kao tvoja koncepcija. Možeš ga učiniti onoliko malim ili onoliko velikim, već kako sam želiš. A ti izigravaš nekakvog slabašnog pojedinca. Tako mi svega, kada bih ja puknula ja bih napravila da svijet pukne sa mnom. Slušaj! Svijet postoji samo onako kako ga ti razumiješ i onda je puno bolje reći da nisi ti taj koji je puknuo – puknuo je Grand Canyon.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up

VIDEO: Memories… na Nova TV

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In co-production with / U koprodukciji sa: Intercult, Stockholm, Student Center – Culture of Change / Studentski centar – Kultura promjene, Teatar &TD, Zagreb, Theorem supported by / podržan iz programa Culture 2000

Performance was prepared in / Pripremano u: Centar za kulturu / Culture Center Novi Zagreb & PAF, St. Erme, Francuska

The project is supported by the Zagreb City Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture, Croatia, Goethe Institute (Zagreb) and Embassy of Sweden (Zagreb). / Ostvareno uz potporu Gradskog ureda za kulturu i Ministarstva kulture Republike Hrvatske, Goethe Instituta Zagreb i Veleposlanstva Kraljevine Švedske u RH.

Special thanks to / Zahvaljujemo: Mårten Spångberg, IBM/Lenovo, Medic d.o.o., Ivana Sajko, Kazimir Curić (Virtualni ured d.o.o.), Đurđa Janeš, Marko Sančanin & Platforma 9,81, Tomislav Medak