03/09/2025

Performance trilogy “Undecidable Question” at the Tanznacht festival in Berlin

The artistic formation CO₂… a couple of artists will present their performance trilogy “Undecidable Question” at this year’s Tanznacht festival of contemporary dance and performance in Berlin. The festival will take place from September 10th to 14th with the subtitle “Vocal Affairs”.

Photo: Sanja Bistričić Srića

"A long time ago, when things still had a predictable growth, friends from Ljubljana invited us to imagine the future, to propose a project for 2023. We decided to make a turn: instead of predicting the future, we tried to go back to historical moments of expression of collective will... to mythical moments of uncertainty... to murmurs of indefinite pasts. What we didn't foresee was that from then on, we would try to practice the impossible. Some things happened that we thought were impossible. Some impossible things can still happen. Trapped in the permanent present of poetry, we are still looking for voices from the future that announce answers to so far undecidable questions!"

- CO2... a couple of artists about the "Undecidable Question"

The performing trilogy "Undecidable Question" by the artistic formation CO₂… a couple of artists began in Ljubljana in 2022. In collaboration with the Slovenian Youth Theatre, the Maska Institute and the Domino Association, artists Nikolina and Goran Sergej Pristaš created a performance "monad" in which the first play "Myth Interrupted" was created, in collaboration with Hrvoslav Brkušić, Marko Tadić, Hrvoje Nikšić, and Alan Vukelić. Shortly afterwards, the second part "They Called Them Footprints" was developed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, which combines the poetry of Danish poet Inger Christensen and drawings by Gordon Matta Clark and William Blake, and the team was joined by costume designer Silvio Vujičić.

The third part of the trilogy, "...to forge a swimmable path through the snow..." was co-produced by KONTEJNER, the Maska Institute and the Domino Association, and the performance was joined by composer Sara Glojnarić, playwright Goran Ferčec and Priska Pia Pristaš. The premiere of the third part was held in January 2025 at the KONTEJNER, which was also the first time that the trilogy was performed in its entirety.

More detailed information about performances in KONTEJNER and guest appearances at the Tanznacht festival are available on the links.

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