Theatre and/as Public Space

Round table

Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia

Is theatre space public space? In what way are theatre or individual productions capable of thinking public space; can theatre generate a space in which the public once more becomes a political question? This event organised by the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia will attempt to thematise the position of public space and the unique power of theatre to establish, enter and appropriate public space. It will also address the problem of the shrinking public sphere, the way that theatre addresses (a specific) public and the field of art as a training ground for testing capitalist mechanisms of privatisation, precarisation and political powerlessness.

Participants: Teja Reba, Mateja Bučar, Ajda Tomazin, Rok Vevar, Janez Janša, Jurij Krpan

Moderators: Alja Lobnik, Rok Bozovičar