Jasmina Cibic
Protocol for Utopia: The Dreams We Call Our Own (2023)
Performance / Commissioned work
Courtesy of the artist
Dates
29.–30.9.2023
Location
Kunsthaus Graz
Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and coproduced by Kunsthaus Graz and steirischer herbst ʼ23
The Dreams We Call Our Own is part of the research project and film work Beacons, commissioned by IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, for the exhibition Self-Determination: A Global Perspective.
Supported by the Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries Laboratory, a project of the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, Friends of Nomad, and SKICA–Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum
Jasmina Cibic’s new durational performance for Kunsthaus Graz builds upon research about a congress of cultural workers of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Titograd, Yugoslavia, in 1985, where artists, academics, and politicians shared strategies of achieving the self-determination of an oppressed identity. Cibic uses fragments of speeches held at this event as the libretto for a musical performance scored by Barbara Kinga Majewska. The work is performed by eight female singers distributed on suspended structures throughout the Kunsthaus.
In collaboration with Barbara Kinga Majewska
With the participation of the choir Vocalforum Graz
Singers: Saha Esbati, Eva Gugerbauer, Zane Kļaviņa, Melanie Rehrl-Leopold, Leonie Roubal, Marie-Therese Schwaiger, Leanne Tong, and Margareth Tumler
Rehearsal director: Franz M. Herzog
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