From first to last
Collective Femminicit /
ZIZ society
Performative event at the intersection of art, history and sociological analysis
Menstruation is not just a biological process, but a historically and socially conditioned experience full of paradoxes, myths, invisibility and control. Is it just a bodily function-or is it a classification that determines when a woman is useful, but when does she become invisible?
About the show:
From the first to the last, it is a performative event at the intersection of art, history and sociological analysis, which through the body, voice, objects, the latest scientific findings and historical sources opens up space for public conversation about menstruation – one of the most everyday and at the same time the most stigmatized phenomena in the life of half of humanity.
Menstruation is not just a biological process, but a historically and socially conditioned experience full of paradoxes, myths, invisibility and control. The focus is not only on hormones and hygiene, but on issues of authority, norms, language and economics. Is menstruation just a bodily function-or is it a classification that determines who is worth hearing, who should be silent, when a woman is useful, but when does she become invisible? How to talk about her – in art, science, at school, at home?
The performance was created as a collective research of artists who understand menstruation as a political and aesthetic fact and through diverse performing languages call for a change in the relationship to the female body, menstrual blood and the cyclicality of time.
Creative and artistic team: Teja Bitenc, Jurij Torkar, Barbara Polajnar, Katarina Zalar
Directed By: Agnieszka Bresler
Choreography and video: I Animalona Konecka
Assistant directors: I / I Konecka and Barbara Polajnar
Dramaturgical advice: Zala Dobovsek
Costume design and set design: Katarina Zalar
Performance: Collective Femminicit <url>: Teja Bitenc, Patricija Crnkovic, Suzana Grau, Tanja Matijasevi <url>, Anja Partlic, Milena Pucnik, Severina Siter, Matija Shishko, Ajda Spacapan, Mateja Toplak, Jurij Torkar, Natalija Troha
Producer: Nastya Soki
Production: Ziz Association
The project is funded by the European Union and implemented with the support of the Vetrinjski Dvor.
Ticket price
10/ (regular price), 7 (students, students, retirees, pensioners, self-employed in culture and self-employed in culture, unemployed and unemployed)
Od prve do zadnje
Kolektiv Femminicity
Društvo ZIZ
Performativni dogodek na presečišču umetnosti, zgodovine in sociološke analize
Menstruacija ni le biološki proces, temveč zgodovinsko in družbeno pogojena izkušnja, polna paradoksov, mitov, nevidnosti in nadzora. Ali je le telesna funkcija – ali pa klasifikacija, ki določa, kdaj je ženska uporabna, kdaj pa postane nevidna?
O predstavi:
Od prve do zadnje je performativni dogodek na presečišču umetnosti, zgodovine in sociološke analize, ki skozi telo, glas, predmete, najnovejša znanstvena dognanja in zgodovinske vire odpira prostor za javni pogovor o menstruaciji – enem najbolj vsakdanjih in hkrati najbolj stigmatiziranih pojavov v življenju polovice človeštva.
Menstruacija ni le biološki proces, temveč zgodovinsko in družbeno pogojena izkušnja, polna paradoksov, mitov, nevidnosti in nadzora. V ospredju niso zgolj hormoni in higiena, temveč vprašanja oblasti, norm, jezika in ekonomije. Ali je menstruacija le telesna funkcija – ali pa klasifikacija, ki določa, kdo je vreden slišanja, kdo mora molčati, kdaj je ženska uporabna, kdaj pa postane nevidna? Kako govoriti o njej – v umetnosti, znanosti, v šoli, doma?
Predstava je nastala kot kolektivna raziskava ustvarjalk in ustvarjalcev, ki menstruacijo razumejo kot politično in estetsko dejstvo ter skozi raznolike uprizoritvene jezike pozivajo k predrugačenju odnosa do ženskega telesa, menstrualne krvi in cikličnosti časa.
Ustvarjalno-umetniška ekipa: Teja Bitenc, Jurij Torkar, Barbara Polajnar, Katarina Zalar
Režija: Agnieszka Bresler
Koreografija in video: Iwona Konecka
Asistentki režije: Iwona Konecka in Barbara Polajnar
Dramaturško svetovanje: Zala Dobovšek
Kostumografija in scenografija: Katarina Zalar
Izvedba: Kolektiv Femminicity: Teja Bitenc, Patricija Crnkovič, Suzana Grau, Tanja Matijašević, Anja Partlič, Milena Pučnik, Severina Siter, Matija Šiško, Ajda Špacapan, Mateja Toplak, Jurij Torkar, Natalija Troha
Producentka: Nastja Soki
Produkcija: Društvo ZIZ
Projekt je financiran s strani Evropske unije in izveden ob podpori Vetrinjskega dvora.
CENA vstopnice
10€ (redna cena), 7 (študentke, študenti, upokojenke, upokojenci, samozaposlene v kulturi in samozaposleni v kulturi, brezposlelne in brezposelni)