Via Negativa Lab

MAGA Performance • 60 min

1-09-2025 - Španski borci, Ljubljana

Devised and performed by: Luka Jovanov, Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach, Varja Hrvatin, Anja Bezlova Završnik
Mentor: Bojan Jablanovec
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Partner: Zavod En-Knap

Make Art Great Again

“In recent years, our Art has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before. We will be an Artists like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our Art will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable. Art will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will be prosperous, we will be proud, we will be strong, and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered, we will not be intimidated, we will not be broken, and we will not fail. We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Artists. The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.” (The Inaugural Address by D.J.T., 01-20-2025, adapted by B.J.)

ORGANIC WASTE Performance • 50min

15-9-2019 – The Old Power Station

Concepts: Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach, Olja Grubić
Performed by: Sara Horžen, Mitja Lovše, Medea Novak, Miša Gams, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Olja Grubić
Mentor: Bojan Jablanovec
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Partner: Zavod Bunker

The body resists any ideology

The production includes three collective situations that treat the human body as the basic source of “dirt” in the ideological, biological and cultural sense of the word. Today, the great struggle against the pollution of the planet is gradually turning into ideological moralism. But the body exists outside the rules of morality, remains “dirty” and stubbornly resists any ideology. (B.J.)

THERE WILL BE NO BREAD FROM THIS FLOUR

4-9-2018 - The Old Power Station, Ljubljana

Devised and performed by: Olja Grubić, Kristina Aleksova, Varja Hrvatin, Sara Horžen, Brina Klampfer, Staša Jovanović, Mirel Knez, Nika Švab
Mentors: Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Partner: Zavod Bunker

We will not be the milking cows of ideology

Woman. Body. Child. Future. Hope. Nation. Land. There will be no bread from this flour. In VN Lab’s new production, eight female performers take the stage with their own reasons, beliefs and experiences, and with one answer: we will not be the milking cows of ideology. (B.J.)

NORMAL

9-9-2017 - The Old Power Station, Ljubljana

Devised and performed by: Kristina Aleksova, Daniel Petković, Daniele Tenze, Olja Grubić, Lana Zdravković
Mentors: Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa
Partner: Zavod Bunker

Freedom or security?

How much freedom are we willing to sacrifice for security? On the one hand, security is a deeply intimate need of the individual; on the other, it is the territory of ideological manipulation, economic enslavement and political trading. In this game, many things have become normal. (B.J.)