Barbara Novakovič

Hortus conclusus-garden

- Premiere: 2024-09-09 -

Cankarjev dom Ljubljana

Photo: Darja Tisu

Hortus Conclusus is a garden genre, an enclosed space divided into quadrants. The enclosure is simple: a wall or decorative wall or a woven wool fence. It acts as a curtain, like a veil that covers the nakedness of the body (Dominique Clévenot writes about the aesthetics of the veil) or perhaps a theatre curtain, an interspace that both separates and joins two key paradigms of stage art. Architect and architectural theorist Gottfried Semper, in his Theory of Dressing (Bekleidungstheorie), identifies fabric as the primal form of art and states that construction began with draping structures in fabric. Tents are depicted in the stone reliefs of ancient cultures, showing the aberrations of their shapes in response to various weather conditions.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE

http://www.muzeum.si/alegorije/conclusus/ahc.html

Credits:

Direction and movement: Barbara Novakovič
Dramaturgy consultant: Jana Pavlič
Set design: assist. prof. Vlatka Ljubanović, M.Sc. Arch., with Dana Čuk, Valentin Dowhyj, Juna Drobnič, Maša Ferjančič (students from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture)
Sound design: Gal Škrjanec Skaberne
Costume design: Ana Kolenc and Barbara Novakovič
Performers: Luka Ostrež, Jerca Rožnik Novak, Mateja Železnik and Petra Govc, Branko Potočan, Mateja Rebolj
Production: Muzeum, Institute of Art Production, Distribution and Publishing
Co-production: Cankarjev dom

In collaboration with the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture; the Slovenian Theatre Institute; Qulenium Cultural Association; and Narodni dom Maribor, Vetrinjski dvor.
Financially supported by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Ljubljana.