VRT / GARDEN
musical terrain vague
premiere shows in Cirkulaciji² in Ljubljana:
11., 13., 16., 26. and 27. june 2025
always at 8 PM
period: zero/0 tolerance, duration: 47 minutes
“I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” — Andy Warhol
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
Although the Garden is not particularly obsessed or passionate, it keeps coming back to the same thing. While the sovereign media are forever on an exploratory expedition, the vague channels camp out indefinitely or wander around endlessly. They can encounter the universe anywhere anyway, so why should they mobilize? For the Garden, its own operation is the greatest mystery. This existential moment ensures that no expression acquires a final and unchanging form, but nevertheless says something. Travelers through the terrain vague find their way into the wasteland, where even hot-spot tourists get lost. The Garden is not concerned with form, but with the emptiness between forms, and this is timeless.
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
It is not interested in success. It has no goals. Its modules are not based on argumentation, but on infection. However that is not its purpose: ambiguity is not an ideal, but an extreme level of abstraction.
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
There is no work here, we are more interested in disassembling and assembling indefinite objects and projects. When we lose sight of the starting point and the end, we can experience existence in peace. In post-atomic art, uncertainty is the foundation of efficiency and unreliability is a sign of goodwill. Nonlinearity mocks the rhizomatic dogma that prescribes an endless switching of channels, cables, trunks and roots. The garden cannot be followed. Its fuzzy logic frustrates seekers of meaning. The result is a hazy sign with an information value of 0.34 or 2.74. It does not conceal or consciously distort anything. Simply no one knows anything for sure, and this is noticeable. There is no fear of data. The histories of ambiguity have yet to be written.
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
The vague Garden as an object, and the vague, as the subject who directs it, are inseparable. They share a blurred concept of boundaries that prevents one from separating from the Garden. Clarity only comes when the subject succeeds in eliminating the object and thus becomes superfluous.
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
Desertion is a condition of freedom. And victory, as always, belongs to the defeated.
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
· script and direction:: Gotvan Vlado Repnik
· aₚ=tF²: !gor #352;
· project consultancy: Nina Meško
· performers: Loup Abramovici, Jana Jevtović, Bass Jansson, Jurij Podgoršek
· in film: Marieke Werner, Meg Stuart
· editing: GVRbabaLAN
· take one: Tatiana Kocmur
· intermedia advisory: Borut Savski
· proculvision: Simon Svetlik
· supervision: Simon Kardum
· special thanks to Jožica Avbelj, Stefan Doepner, Urška Savić, Blixa Bargeld, Marjana Harcet, Marko Batista, Wilhelm Groener, Sanja Simić, Nathan Coley and group Bilwelt
· photograph: Sunčan Patric Stone
· production: GVR Zavod za umetniško produkcijo
· co-production: Cirkulacija², Kino Šiška, KIBLA Maribor
· the performance is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana
foto | photo: Sunčan Stone
