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X REČ SELEKTORA

Predstava Sloboda Je najskuplja kapitalistička reč izvesno je jedna od najoriginalnijih Bitefovih festivalskih produkcija u ovih 50 godina, Nju su osmislile, all je i same izvode, dramaturškinje Maja Pelević i Olga Dimitrijević, a na osnovu svog istraživačkog puta u Pjöngjang. Polazna tačka njihovog istraživanja jeste uvid u to da je, posle pada Berlinskog zida, te nedavnog otopljavanja odnosa SAD i Kube, Severna Koreja poslednji ostatak Hladnog rata, idealna za projekciju svih stereotipa o „neprijatelju“, U scenskoj formi dobro kontrolisanog turističkog putovanja, autorke suočavaju i ispituju propagandne obrasce i stereotipe totalitarnog režima Severne Koreje i zapadnih neoliberalnih demokratija, te kako se u tom kontekstu reprezentuje i doživljava ideja slobode i kako se njome manipuliše.

x O PREDSTAVi

Predstava je inspirisana istraživanjem i putovanjem autorki u najizolovaniju zemlju na svetu koja i dalje pobuđuje pažnju i osudu ostatka sveta - Severnu Koreju, i preispituje ideju slobode u dobu sve većeg globalnog nadzora. Publika će imati priliku da prisustvuje svojevrsnoj turističkoj turi kroz zemlju koja se danas i dalje smatra najvećom babarogom „demokratskog sveta", kroz koju se otvara pitanje slobode i neslobode u današnjem društvu. Projekat postavlja pitanja kolika su ograničenja našeg mišljenja, uslovljenog stalnim propagandama i kontekstom iz koga dolazimo? Koliko je pojam slobode relativan i određen društveno-kulturnim kontekstom? Da li je vidljivi kult ličnosti gori od nevidljivog kulta kapitala? Šta nam Severna Koreja - poslednji ostatak Hladnog rata - govori o našem, „zapadnom“ svetu? Da li je jedini način da se izbegne imperijalna dominacija posedovanje atomske bombe i opstenarodne odbrane? Da ii socijalističko uređenje nužno mora da bude i totalitarno? Predstava se suočava sa mogućnostima i nemogućnostima da govorimo o jednoj zemlji van našeg kulturnog i političkog koda.

x CURATORS’ WORD

The show Freedom: The Most Expensive Capitalist World is, certainly, one of the most original Bitef festival productions in these 50 years. It has been conceived and performed by dramaturges Maja Pelevic and Olga Dimitrijevic, based on their research trip to Pyongyang. The starting point of their research is a thesis that, after the fall of the Berlin wall and recent improvement in the relationship between the USA and Cuba, North Korea is the last remnant of the Cold War and thus an ideal backdrop for all the projected stereotypes about the “enemy”. In the form of a well-controlled guided trip, the authors face and question the propaganda patterns and stereotypes of the North Korean totalitarian regime and Western neoliberal democracies, how the idea of freedom is represented in this context and how it is manipulated.

x ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

The production, inspired by the authors’ research trip to the world's most isolated country - North Korea, questions the idea of freedom in the era of ever-intensifying global surveillance. The audience will have a chance to get a unique touristic tour through a country considered by the “Western World” to be the biggest bogeyman, whose existence raises the question on freedom and non-freedom in today’s society. The show brings up many other issues as well: how extensive are the limits of our thinking, conditioned by constant propaganda and the context which we come from? How relative is the notion of freedom and how determined by the socio-cultural context? Is the visible personality cult worse than the invisible cult of money? What does the last Cold War remnant, North Korea, tell us about our, “Western” world? Is having an atomic bomb and a nationwide defence concept the only way to avoid imperial dominance? Is a socialist political structure always totalitarian? The show faces the possibilities and impossibilities to talk about a country outside our cultural and political code.

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