Heidi: I have to admit, that I´m paranoid enough to find these places always scary in the beginning… Andi: It´s VERY scary! Heidi: WHAT? You´re not supposed to be more scared than me! Andi: I´m also paranoid! heidi: Yes but you have to be less paranoid than I am. Andi: Okay whatever I´m less…
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Podgaric Successes
From Jasenovac it was less than 100km to Podgaric Monument. The monument was located on the hill of a smallest farmer village, and due to a thunder storm upon our arrival we had to wait until evening under the hill before setting up our camp. The location was nearly perfect. An impressive statue with an…
How to catch a fish in Metelkova City
Metelkova City is an autonomous cultural in the centre of Ljubljana. It is located on the site of former military barracks (the Slovenian headquarters of the Yugoslav National Army) and was squatted September 1993. The Site is 12,500 m2; more than 1 hectare or approx. 3.1 Acres. It consists of 7 randomly placed big buildings…
Premier night and exhibition
Cerkno is a quiet small village in the mountains of Slovenia and during our rehearsal nights a sweet silence surrounded us, giving an impression of a nice, quiet performance space for the first showing. How wrong we were! On our premier night both the pensioners club behind the church and the hotel in front of the church decided to throw a schlager party, creating a noisy mixture of overlapping entertainment.
Our performance was scheduled for 10pm, and 20 seconds after we started, the hotel started aswell. We finished the piece but Andi´s wonderful tracks were overshadowed by schlager hitsongs from the 80´s. We decided to do another run around midnight, when the pensioners would be asleep. We were wrong again. After two hours of waiting in the caravan with some tea and coctails to keep us warm we were about to fall asleep but the pensioners were still going strong with their parties on both sides of the village.
We filmed the piece a few more times but performing that night was impossible.
Material from our first exhibition:
Heidi and Andi preparing for the premier
Francisca´s birds looking for home. We gave one a home inside Lufka. http://www.franciscaalsua.com
The Priest of the Church. Photo: Klaus Mähring. www.klaus.maehring.at
C.M.A.K. Photo: Klaus Mähring www.klaus.maehring.at
Monique Bestens Memory Shop. http://www.moniquebesten.nl
Monique Bestens Memory Shop. http://www.moniquebesten.nl
Tinski´s Jesus and work from Small But Dangers http://smallbutdangers.cerkno.net la-tinski.blogspot.com
smallbutdangers.cerkno.net
An Article from our favourite JProf Dr. Anna Lipphardt
Materal from Jprof Dr. Anna Lipphardt during Nomadic Villages 2014 and 2015
Building towards first Performance
The week flew past and somesort of a performance was born in the end. The rain carried on in the beginning of the week and made rehearsing difficult, but that led to even more productive end of the week. We realised there wouldn´t be any fabrics available within 30km radius so the local hardware shop…
♫ Raindrops are falling …♫ everywhere..
The non-stop rain and Cerkno Jazz Festival unabled us to proceed with InDifferentLight this weekend. Rehearsing a dance solo outdoors and setting up projectors and computers was impossible, so the artistic ideas ripened in our unconscious whilst we fullfilled the duty of mingling with the locals in several jazz concerts. We also had a wonderfully educational Saturday in the mountains with a Slovenian raw food guru Dario Cortese. Dario Cortese seems to be a national celebrity chef and author of the same subject here in Slovenia. We wondered around a nearby mountain with him putting everything green and colourful in our mouths on the way. His knowledge on nature was most impressive and his humble yet energetic spirit kept everyone happy despite the rain.
Rain also revealed us a rather unfortunate detail of Lufka: She isn´t waterproof. There was a sure intention to take a raincover with us when we left, but somehow it didn´t happen in the end… Ironically all four (or five) leaking holes were above our bed. We did our best to party on in the Jazz festival until we would pass out ignoring the raindrops, but as drops transformed into streams, Andi fixed a few hanging plastig bags above the bed and stuck toilet paper in the rest of the holes. During night time we remained dry.
C.M.A.K / Nomadic Village Day1
Nomadic Village in Cerkno had to be slightly re-located, as The Buss didn´t fit in to the original location. Luckily, before we arrived Tina and Klaus had negotiated a new location nearby: The Christian Church. The Priest of the church was very kind to borrow his land for a week, and we will be sleeping…