A DANCE GUIDE THROUGH A CATALOGUE OF COMFORT
[performative-research project]
April-November 2022
How do we all co-create the world through everyday practices and technology? How do we use things, space, what actions or ideas do we choose, and what is the effect of our choices? The project was exploring the correlation between the cultural tendency towards constant comfort and our individual (perceptual-cognitive) and intersubjective (social) intelligence. It was focusing on banal, seemingly “normal” and “innocent” daily practices and technological innovations, and questioned how beneficial these actually are for human (individual and social) development. Is all this really a comfort for human beings? Are smart phones and automatic drawers, ovens etc. really a comfort, or is there also a violence, a cognitive regression hidden in them? Is it good for us to simply get used to them? Through a series of urban interventions (May-August), a performative lecture (September), and a visual installation (November) the project unfolded a synergistically accumulated sociality in which every individual is an important social actor contributing to the complex social picture.
Intervention 1:
ALONG THE TRAIL OF DATA
AND COMRADESHIP
31. May 2022; PST [Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship], Ljubljana
Intervention 2:
CheckCheapPeakChick
19. June 2022; Lake Jasna, Kranjska gora
Intervention 3:
JUST ENOUGH SIMPLE MINDLESS YOUR OWN BUSINESS
22. June 2022; parking lot next to Biljardna hiša, Parmova, Ljubljana
Intervention 4:
EVERYTHING IS OK
16. & 22. August 2022; Ljubljana& Karst – wherever walks the traveler through time …
Intervention 5:
KovčingCoachingCouching
6. September 2022; Ljubljana (Ajdovščina; crossroads of Gosposvetska-Vošnjakova & Tivolska-Pražakova)
Intervention X:
BY THE WAY
On-going actions during the project; Ljubljana
Lecture performance:
THE CATALOGUE OF COMFORT
12. September 2022; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Visual installation:
A DANCE GUIDE THROUGH A CATALOGUE OF COMFORT
14. – 16. November 2022;
Cirkulacija 2, Ljubljana
Postproduction article:
CATALOGUES OF COMFORT
Pernarčič, R. Katalogos udobja; Lothar, O. (translation) Catalogues of Comfort. Maska, 2023, XXXVIII (213-14), pg. 36-41 (si), 42-46 (eng)
Concept of the project, lecture performance & installation: Radharani Pernarčič
Co-authors of the interventions (1-3): Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Sašo Rutar, Simon Svetlik
Performers: Radharani Pernarčič (Interventions 1-5-X, lecture performance); Tomaž Lapajne Dekleva, Sašo Rutar, Simon
Svetlik (Interventions 1-3-X); Žigan Krajnčan, Ivan Mijačević (Intervention 4); Roman Modic (Intervention 4); DISKOlektiv
(visual installation – introduction performance)
Photography: Sunčan Stone (Intervention 5)
Special cameras: Tomo Križnar (Intervention 1); Matija Omerzu (Intervention 4)
Editing: Radharani Pernarčič
Technical support: Sašo Rutar; Miha Erjavec, Cirkulacija2
Production: AniRadar
Coproduction: Škuc gallery & Cirkulacija 2
Thanks: Ajša Alagič, Aljoša Bizjak, Gregor Kamnikar, Boža Krajcer, Rudi Kraševec, Jure Kajin, Mitja Novak, Borut Savski
and all spontaneous participants in the interventions
The project was supported by the City of Ljubljana