The starting point of the theatrical event Melancholic Sketch is the melancholy we feel when reading the novella Death in Venice, a work by the great German classic Thomas Mann, after which the Italian theater, opera and film director Luchino Visconti made a film of the same name in 1971. Melancholy has been thought about by philosophers, depicted by artists, and today is also being researched by neurologists and cognitive scientists. Because of its vagueness, it has been and will be an illness for some, and a source of creative inspiration for others. And how do we experience melancholy today?
With his latest project, director Matej Filipčič questions the possibility of staging the emotional ambience and dynamics that drive an artistic idea and its realization, and whether the states we experience when observing art can be recorded and kept alive. Melancholic croquis is an attempt to create a new performance genre that should synergistically connect three main areas of human activity – art, science and economy. The director has drawn them together to engage in raising questions about experiencing and understanding an ethical stance that certainly needs the broadest consideration today. Melancholy – what is it? Is it a path to destruction or a path to creation? The performances will be performed again on 29 and 30 October 2016, at 7 pm at the Grand Hotel Union.
The following will participate in the conversation: Matej Filipcic – producer, director and set designer, Sonja Dular – selection of texts and adaptation, actors Romana Šalehar, Boris Cavazza, Jožica Avbelj, Dr. Urban Kordeš – experts in the field of cognitive science, Dr. Igor Škamperle (melancholy in philosophy), Ladeja Godina Košir (synergy of economy and creativity), Manuel Kuran (Blackbox doo, EEG technology). The discussion will be moderated by Špela Kožar.
The event is organized by the OSUM Art Society.
