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we manage at once to avoid the "posf'-trap, then we might claim that what we live today is a nonhistorictime. In a way this is not far from being true. History is nothing else than an agglomerate of dominant perceptions of the past; hence, an agglomerate of those subjective views on past events that have prevailed all other views, usually by force. The principles ruling today's world are those of acceleration and expansion; all major phenomena and processes are affected by their vertiginous dynamics. Production, consumption, wars, truces, natural and men-made disasters, the wealth of ones and the poverty of the others, concealed truths and public lies - they all grow and spread with a speed that is ever harder to follow, or rather, a speed that increasingly obstructs the perception of reality. The amount and frequency of everything is too abundant - and in dramatic dimensions - to survive in either collective or individual memory longer than the interval between two editions of TV news or daily newspapers. The satiety of perception leads to the loss of criteria for classification of information according to importance, which is followed by the loss of sense for importance itself. Losing importance gradually brings the loss of sense. Is this notan ideal chance for those who (think they) administer the acceleration and expansion of the world to (think they) tailor history by their own whim, amid over-sense and over-significance, when everything turns anyway into non-sense and in-significance?
The performance premiered in April 2008 in Zagreb, in the"Bogdan Ogrizović"library and since then has been performed over 20 times in Zagreb (on 3 different locations), within the frame of 2008 Croatian Theatre Showcase and International Conference PSI#IS, and in Sarajevo where it had won the Avaz Dragon Award at 48th MESS 2008, as part of the trilogy Process_City.
VACATION FROM HISTORY