«Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.»

«Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.» Every house has a door (SAD/USA)

Srijeda/ Wednesday  1. 09., 20:00 – HNK Ivana pl. Zajca

Petak / Friday 3. 09.,  20:30 – HNK Ivana pl. Zajca

Nakon dvadesetogodišnje suradnje u grupi Goat Island, Lin Hixson i Matthew Goulish osnovali su grupu Every House Has a Door s namjerom ostvarivanja određenih suradničkih performansa s pozvanim gostima. Grupa zadržava uski tematski fokus i strogu prezentaciju Goat Islanda, no istovremeno se razvija kroz međukulturnu suradnju sa svim njenim nepoznanicama i nelagodnostima.

Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, after a twenty-year collaboration as co-founders of Goat Island, have formed Every house has a door to create project-specific collaborative performances with invited guests. This company seeks to retain Goat Island’s narrow thematic focus and rigorous presentation, but to broaden the canvas to include careful intercultural collaboration, and its unfamiliar, even awkward, spectrum.

“LET US THINK OF THESE THINGS ALWAYS. LET US SPEAK OF THEM NEVER.”

Predstava, odnosno redateljica Lin Hixon, izvođači Selma Banich i Mislav Čavajda iz Zagreba te Stephen Fiehn i Matthew Goulish iz Chicaga predstavljaju susret između Hrvatske i SADa kroz reakcije na rad švedskog redatelja Ingmara Bergmana. Jugoslavenske reakcije na Bergmana proizlaze iz rada Sweet Movie Dušana Makavejeva, američke reakcije na Bergmana (i Makavejeva) citiraju filozofa Stanleya Cavella, te one zajedno čine temeljni okvir za kazališni komad koji se bavi poviješću utopizma i promjena/otpora u nepravednom svijetu. Film postaje osnova za koreografiju, određenu dozu humora pruža katalog napuštenih praksi, a kazalište zamišlja susret različitosti u osjetljivoj sadašnjosti.

“Glavna uloga filmske umjetnosti je pretvoriti teška, komplicirana, zbunjujuća i ružna pitanja o ljudskome postojanju u nešto nalik pjesmi ili letećem tepihu.” Dušan Makavejev

”Bio bi to neki drugi svijet – ma koliko on bio kratak, virtualan ili izmišljen (svo troje može proizvesti jaki doživljaj) – unutar ovoga svijeta: pa makar se samo i odvijao u tih sat i nešto kada nas u kazalištu podsjete koliko se malo međusobno poznajemo.” Joe Kelleher, Theatre & Politics

“LET US THINK OF THESE THINGS ALWAYS. LET US SPEAK OF THEM NEVER.”

Under the direction of Lin Hixson, artists Selma Banich and Mislav Cavajda from Zagreb, and Chicagoans Stephen Fiehn of Cupola Bobber and Matthew Goulish, propose an encounter between Croatia and the US through responses to an unlikely, “equidistant” third entity, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Yugoslavian responses to Bergman, derived from the work of Dusan Makavejev (Sweet Movie), and American responses to Bergman (and Makavejev) extracted from philosopher Stanley Cavell, provide the foundation for a theatrical work that engages in the histories of utopianism and revulsion/revolt in an unjust world. Film becomes a basis for choreography, a catalogue of abandoned practices offers a degree of humor, and theater frames an encounter of difference in the delicacy of the present.

“The main work of film art is to transform heavy and difficult and confusing and ugly questions of human existence into something close to a song or a flying carpet.” Dusan Makavejev

“That would be another world that, however brief, however virtual, and however fictional (the brief, the virtual, and the fictional are, after all, equally capable of exerting a memorable force), takes its place in this world: if only during that hour or so in the theatre when we are reminded of how little we know of each other.” Joe Kelleher, Theatre & Politics

Predstava Let us think of these things always Let us speak of them never je projekt National Performance Networka (NPN), Creation Funda i Forth Funda. Pripremljena je u suradnji s centrom Performance Space 122, Muzejom suvremene umjetnosti iz Chicaga, Festivalom Fusebox i NPNom. Creation Fund podržavaju Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation i National Endowment for the Arts. Forth Fund podržava Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Više informacija na : www.npnweb.org.

Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by Performance Space 122 in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Fusebox Festival and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The Forth Fund is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

Predstavu su koproducirali: OOUR, Centar za dramske umjetnosti

Predstavu su podržali: Trust for Mutual Understanding, Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i šport Grada Zagreba, Ministarstvo kulure RH, Ekscena, CeKaO “Zagreb”, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, FACE Croatia i United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship

The creation of this performance has been supported by a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. It is a co-production with OOUR and Centre for Drama Art with further support from the City Office for Culture Zagreb, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, ekscene platform in collaboration with CeKaO “Zagreb”, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, FACE Croatia, and a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship.