Anita Wach: Nessun Dorma

Happening

In the frame of project 30 Movements

Duration: 30 minutes

4th Movement: “The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.” Mikhail Bakunin

It’s necessary to lift our spirits up even if the circumstances and prospects for the future are low. Let’s reanimate the euphoria of freedom from revolutionary times when the future was full of promises and glory. You are invited to give a full swing to your private revolutionary moment and take part in our collective affectional excess. It does not matter why and for whom or against whom, no arguments, no programs, no explanations. Just the feeling of victory, freedom and glory.

Nessun Dorma is a part of a project 30 movements, which consists of 30 autonomous performative events executed in various venues in front of an audience.Within 30 movements Anita pushes the boundaries of imagination and engages mind and body in dialogue with the harsh reality of everyday life and current politics. The range of performative strategies is wide: from intimate, solo appearances, to happenings engaging more people, from purely physical actions to verbal monologues, from abstract forms to interactive initiatives. The collection of raw images, insights, impulses, and actions are also a part of a continuous creative madness of VN Laboratory for performance art, where the author tries and develops ideas. Following the need for democratization of the creative process, Anita takes the role of author, performer but also a curator who occasionally gives the stage to invited artists. She decided to invade the public sphere in order to find a place for weakness, despair, ordinary joy and basic human confusion, to let it move through the horizon of public visibility. Material and motives from 30 movements will become a foundation for future performance planned for spring 2023.

Author of individual Movements and performer: Anita Wach
Author of concept and artistic direction: Bojan Jablanovec
Executive producer and public relations: Sara Horžen
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana