Just the Beginning

Photo: Madster

Via Negativa

Première 11. 11. 2012. Old Power Station Elektro Ljubljana

Running time 1 hour and 10 minutes without an interval.

Author of Concept and Director Bojan Jablanovec
Author of Music Kraftwerk
Music Consultant Tomaž Grom
Stylist Mateja Benedetti
Lighting Designer Igor Remeta

Cast
Katarina Stegnar, Grega Zorc, Vito Weis, Anita Wach, Boris Kadin, Loup Abramovici, Lada Petrovski Ternovšek

This performance came about during the election period and addresses the future President of the State thus questioning the role, which in a democratic system is performed by all of us citizens, the role of the electoral body. We are electing among those who are offered to us by the system. You made a choice even if you don’t vote for anybody. The representational democracy is an intelligent machine that grinds everything: Those who are for and those who are against. The electoral body is not here to express its will but to maintain the system. Our democratically elected representatives do only that which the electoral body is ready to accept and support. The electoral body’s bottom is already ablaze from excessive patting. We waste our own electoral body on empty phrases to the limits of its physical endurance. "Dear Mr President, we don’t ask who you are, we are lucky that you are what you are. President! You are one of us and we are yours. Without hindrance. Without doubt. Alive or dead. Dear President, we are and we remain your happy collective, your group, your electoral body, your Via Negativa.”