EUROKAZ  PRODUCTION

Eurokaz season of performing arts in the Museum of Contemporary Art continues with the Croatian premiere of the interdisciplinary project Tracks by artistic duo Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico. It was created as a co-production of Eurokaz and the Museum (MSU) with de facto and Belgian Kaaitheater where it opened last October in the program of the Spoken World festival.

Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico

TRACKS

Barbara Matijević has been present in the Croatian and international dance and theatre scene for the last ten years. With her rich experience as a performer with foreign and local choreographers and directors, in 2003 she initiated solo projects (solo Re-Play, I AM 1984) as well as projects in cooperation with other artists (combined operations, Via Negativa).

Tracks is the second part of the trilogy Future performance theory or The only way to avoid the massacre is to become its authors? After the first part I AM 1984 in which Barbara Matijević produces a scheme of the mental arborescence of BM (the avatar of the performer Barbara Matijević), in the Tracks project we continue to follow the story of BM, having as the reference point the year 1989 and outlining a new heuristic map by using sound.

It starts out with the same ingredients as the first part – a narration and a drawing – to which one more component is added, one that dominates the performance from beginning to end. The main thread is the story of the creation of a soundscape. The various sounds, songs and compositions Matijević plays us on a small mini-disc form the “first voice”. This soundscape is converted into the drawing of a landscape: this is the “second voice”. The “third voice” consists of the verbal narrative that Matijević adds. As in a fugue, the three voices intertwine, with moments of harmony and counterpoint, with solos, duets and trios.

“Tracks questions today’s excessive reliance on our eyes and returns our ‘neglected’ ears to the fore. It is a musical score for three voices, whose creators ask us to listen (and watch) with alertness, precision and a sense of subtlety”. (Marianne Van Kerkhoven)