It’s that time of the year when we realize that much has changed and nothing has changed and much should change and much will change, but one thing’s sure: something’s moving, here comes Spider Festival.
Join us from 15 to 19 June in Ljubljana!
Join us in disrupting the normative, the fixed, the harmonious. Enter the sphere of exploration, attentive listening and subtle encounters, dance, cinematic performances, music performances, DJ sets, hangouts, and interactions.
Welcome to Spider Festival 2022!
A fact in post-factual times: the donations which every year you kindly give to Spider Festival play an important role in our production capacities. It is why this year we again ask for your support. As per usual, all donations will be spent entirely for the organisation of the festival.
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AWESOME MATHEMATICS
With the society’s navigating within information clouds, data machines, the right and the wrong, the in and the out, it has become difficult to think art. It seems that any artistic action will be absorbed by the hegemony of capitalism and its atrocities. But art never fails to declare its ability to look further, dig deeper, and hear beyond any border. Is it possible to do so in a society of restrictions and normativity?
Meet Awesome Mathematics, the study of asking specific questions and reframing the information patterns, a platform for exploration and experimentation, an exercise in undermining the normative scales and harmonies.
Harmony is about order, timing, and the pleasing arrangements of parts and minds. This gives it the character of something human. But there are other frequencies, those that human beings cannot detect, as well as the ones that are outside the harmony scale. Ranging from simple to complex arrangements, harmony seems to be all about immediate contracts, the main drive of which is an imperative to please. But who are the spectators and the listeners, the judges? What if the scale consisted of frequencies that are outside the horizon of the human ear? This would make the scale discontinuous. Awesome Mathematics, the guiding principle of Spider Festival 2022, attempts to do precisely that.
From dance to music and performance, the artists at Spider 2022 don’t only move the frames of normativity, they disregard them to create a space in which touch is possible. Vera Tussing combines the possibilities of senses to create interpersonal encounters. Samira Elagoz explores the frames of gender and reveals his trans protagonists as rebels, lovers, and creators. Noé Soulier’s performances are a responsive language in movement. Matej Kejžar disrupts the concept of self and offers it as a point of creative multiplicity. Leja Jurišič deconstructs the normative function of a musical object and develops a solo-body-piano genre. Iva Sveshtarova & Willy Prager confront the basic human emotions and show no shame in shame. Gundega Redere puts us off balance precisely to construct balance. Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms seem to be finding a way out of the standardization of mind and body. Jija Sohn offers a non-conforming practice in the era of digital comfort. Saša Lončar’s team of dancers poses questions about the normative concepts of youth. Jernej Škof’s queer butoh practice cuts deep into straight lines, fixed scales. Smirna Kulenović turns to the soil for post-war landscape restoration.
Photo: Matija Lukić
Welcome to Spider Festival 2022. Join us in disrupting the normative, the fixed, the harmonious. Enter the sphere of exploration, attentive listening and subtle encounters, dance, cinematic performances, music performances, DJ sets, hangouts, and interactions.
And last but not least: Spider Festival festival is on a mission to become a zero-waste festival by 2025. We ask all our guests and visitors to join us in this quest not only in theory but in practice and experience as well.
Very Spider, very Awesome, very soon. See you in Ljubljana!
Photo: Matija Lukić