m e & y o u
+something in between
an intercultural programme
after the book of martin buber
bitef poliphony 2007 september 24-28th
belgrade serbia
me and you + something in between is interactive program that gathers independent
performing artists from all parts of europe. it is inspired by the book of martin buber
(“me and
you” heidelberg, 1923) and focused on artistic analysis of encounter in the context of actual controversy that provokes civilization discrepancies at the beginning of our century. the
phenomenon of dismissed encounter is explored through the intimate human experience
clashed with concrete social framework and backdrops, and artistic analysis opens few
questions: how much do we know about each other? in what degree our prejudices
influence the increase of borders, conflicts, isolation and other forms of discrepancies?
could many words about cultural, ethnical, religious, social and gender prejudices
quicken the integrative process or are they some kind of special cold weapons for
maintaining deserving and quite necessary human distance? how could it be overshot?
how many levels are there in each relational phenomenon, emerging from the live and
obligated social context? finally, which are the postulates of authentic human encounter?
can we preserve it pure and untouchable from the social and historical assumptions
without
losing his full potential and sense? the proposed questions will be starting
point and inspiration
for prospective work based on the cross cultural artistic
exchange of involved participants.
program lasts five days and consists of serial of workshops, round table and working
sessions followed by public presentation of participants’ projects which are conceived and
developed within the program. participants will have opportunity to explore their
own prejudices, to act and react according to their attitudes and feelings, and to
generate the authentic artistic response to the evoked issue.
participants are performing artists from ten european countries: adrian gillot &
anne tobart (uk),
andreia sophia
luis de almeida
(portugal),
oystein ulsberg brager
(norway),
eva backman,
gunilla bergerham & zoia paronen (sweden), bogdan florea (romania), malwen voirin & ariane
labed (france), claudia heu, anita kaya and georg graf ole (austria), natasha & boris kadin (croatia), dimitrije stojanovic, ljiljana tasic, andjelka nikolic & maja ladolez (serbia).
workshop moderators are theatre directors irena ristic (hop.la!)
and jadranka andjelic
(dah theatar), and psychodramatist ivana slavkovic
(ngo “encounter”).
final presentation of new developed projects was on 28th of
september 2007 at 11 a.m. in culturel centre "stari grad".
programme director: irena ristic (hop.la!)
partners: ngo "encounter", dah theatre and cedeum
programme is supported by: italian cultural institute in belgrade, french cultural centre, austrian cultural forum, embassy of romania in belgrade
and cultural centre "stari grad"