Mateja Bučar
Annenlinie (2023)
Performance
Mateja Bučar, Annenlinie (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
Mateja Bučar, Annenlinie (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
In her choreographic intervention on Annenstraße, Mateja Bučar and her collaborators address the troubling Nazi past of Graz, which left deep scars in the city. Annenstraße was once a busy shopping street. Many of its shops were run by Jewish families, who were expropriated after the Anschluss in 1938. Bučar’s intervention temporarily stops the traffic with a line of human bodies, compactly connecting the entrances of all buildings from which Jewish shops were removed.
Mateja Bučar (1957, Novo Mesto, Slovenia) is a choreographer whose work is rooted in the Conceptual tradition as well as in artistic research and aims toward transcending genre and disciplinary boundaries. She also heads the DUM Association of Artists, based in Ljubljana, which develops, presents, supports, and reflects various fields of contemporary art. Her work, which includes numerous urban choreographies, has been shown, among many other places, at Aerowaves, Dublin; Crossbreeds, Vienna; Dance Week Festival, Zagreb; Fabbrica Europa, Florence; Gibanica, Ljubljana; and the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. She lives in Ljubljana.
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’23
Produced by steirischer herbst ’23 in coproduction with DUM Association of Artists
In cooperation with CLIO Verein für Geschichts- und Bildungsarbeit
With the kind support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Education event
Following the performance (12:00)
Eat and Greet
With Mateja Bučar
In English
Registration: education [at] steirischerherbst.at
Limited capacity
23.9., 10:30
Meeting place: Annenstraße 52, tram stop Esperantoplatz/Arbeiterkammer
The audience is invited to follow the performance and move around freely.
The performance takes places in any weather.
Duration: 40 min.
Dancers: Tina Benko, Urška Centa, Miha Furlan, Jana Jevtović, Ema Križič, Jan Marolt, Petra Peček, Nina Pertot Weis, Bojana Robinson, Kristina Rozman, Liza Šimenc, Sara Šoukal
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’23
Produced by steirischer herbst ’23 in coproduction with DUM Association of Artists
In cooperation with CLIO Verein für Geschichts- und Bildungsarbeit
With the kind support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Education event
Following the performance (12:00)
Eat and Greet
With Mateja Bučar
In English
Registration: education [at] steirischerherbst.at
Limited capacity