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by which all imminent emotions of others will be tuned or counter-pointed: as an entire presence in a particular time-space sequence, unique and unrepeatable, and as such utterly irrelevant as the food for the entropie devourer of historical relevance. What is the shape in which this experience might materialise? While I lie in the darkness, on the bridge between two days, I let the silence be filled with images, voices, sounds, feelings of the past hours, days, the parallel time-space of thoughts, desires, recollections, fears and hopes... associations fly between them, weaving the net; momentary sensations bounce from the net only to be caught again in it and bounce once again... My head is a running night train. In a lit wagon, two men play ping-pong with a multitude of balls. While the train-head slashes the softness of the dark, people-associations whip the balls-thoughts that fly back and forth, back and forth... Or not? Can you imagine the movement of ping-pong balls in the running train? If we concede (if for no other reason then out of ironic predilection for Fukuyama's thesis, at present obviously naïve and inadequate) to the idea that history has already reached its end, and we manage at once to avoid the "post"-trap, we might easily imagine this movement. And/or experience it.
Katarina Pejović
KATARINA PEJOVIĆ is dramaturg and intermedia artist. Her works and those she has collaborated on were presented and produced by Slovenian National Theatre, Kapeiica Gallery, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Egon March Institute, DUM - Artists' Association, Museum Association (Slovenia), Kunstkanaal, Theater instituut Nederlands, Felix Meritis, De Baiie (The Netherlands), Teatro Cinema Lux and Fabbrica Europa (Italy), Atelje 212 and Centre for Cultural Decontamination- CZKD (Serbia) and Bacači Sjenki (Croatia), as well as featured at numerous international festivals including LIFTLondon, Wiener Festwochen, Ars Electronica, Steirischer Herbst, New Moves, Eurokaz, Urbanfestival, FIAT, Parma Theatre Festival, Sommerfestijn, Stagione di Caccia, BITEF, MESS and PUF. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with numerous directors, choreographers, artists, producers, researchers and programmers worldwide. Together with Boris Bakal, she is co-founder and coauthor of the projects of Bacači Sjenki/ Shadow Casters since 2001. For their work, Shadow Casters have won several awards, among them Special Jury Prize of 41 BITEF 07 and Main Award Cloud at 15th PUF (Pula, 2009) for their performance Ex-position and the Avaz Dragon Award at 48th MESS (Sarajevo) for the entire trilogy Process_City. She lives and works in Zagreb. BORIS BAKAL was born in Zagreb. Director, intermedia artist, actor, writer, set designer, macrobiotic cook. Graduated at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb in 1981. His projects, performances, installations and multimedia creations have been presented at the festivals, exhibitions and manifestations in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxemborug, Macedonia, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The UK, The USA, and Yugoslavia. He is co-founder of several artistic and platforms and associations, e.g. Shadow Casters, Orchestra Stolpnik, Zagreb Cultural Capital 3000 and Theater of Obvious Phenomena. He lives in Zagreb,
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