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Špela Trošt: 636,78

photo: Tomaž Grom
photo: Tomaž Grom
Work of the opus Let’s Work! (2022–2023) by Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba, Špela Trošt

Action in duration
Concept, text, performance: Špela Trošt

29. 1. 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
9. 9. 2023, festival Venere in teatro, Forte Maghera, Mestre-Venezia
21.–22. 11. 2024, Španski borci, Ljubljana

Performance
Concept: Špela Trošt
Text, performance: Marjeta Kamnikar, Liana Kalčina, Špela Trošt, Marija Pantić, Vesna Godler, Mary Anne Blanche

24.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
25.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
2. 12. 2023, Celjski dom, Celje
2.–3. 2. 2024, Hangar teatri, Triest, Italy
18. 5. 2024, Inkubator, Maribor
21.–22. 11. 2024, Španski borci, Ljubljana

Production: Teja Reba
Coproduction: Zavod Sploh
Partner: Moderna galerija, Zavod Bunker
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

29. 1. 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

Photography: Marcandrea
“Please be informed that the conditions for entitlement to an Old Age Pension under Article 27 of the Pension and Disability Insurance Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No.69/12, 39/13, 102/15, 23/17, 40/17, 65/17, 28/19, 75/19, 139/20, 51/21, 121/212, 162/21, 10/22, and 29/22 – hereinafter referred to as ZPIZ-2) are expected to be fulfilled by you on 17 June 2029 when you have reached the age of:
- 65 years, 0 months, and 0 days of age, and
- 39 years, 5 months, 3 days of pensionable age. (Information on the expected amount of Old Age or Early Retirement Pension. No 10345-24269/2022. Ljubljana: ZPIZ, 19 October 2022)”

In her work booklet says:
- Professor of Italian and Slovenian
- Master of Dramatic Studies
As it was abolished on 1.1.2009, it does not say in her work booklet
- Doctor of Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture

The Old Age Pension would be:

“My body as a visible thing is the content in a big scene. But my seeing body supports this visible body and with it everything that is visible.” (Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2000. The Visible and the Invisible. Phainomena. Ljubljana: Nova revija, 122)

The traces of work are inscribed in the body. The body is inscribed with experiences from birth to death, the experiences of generations before us, genetic and social memory, and historical and cultural affirmations.
Interventions on and in the contemporary body are increasingly radical. The dictatorship of appearance is giving rise to two distinctly opposing phenomena, cosmetic surgery and the alternatively marked tattooing and piercing.
She insists on the (in)effective, (un)durable, (im)perfect, (un)emancipated, (in)sufficient, (im)potent, and obsolete in her own body.

Let’s Work! (20222023) deals with the problem of work. It invites us, through various artistic situations set in specific environments, to reflect on the meaning and value of work, the ways in which we experience work in everyday life, and how art is at work. In the first chapter (2022), artworks are contextualized in locations that play a constructive role in society in terms of the formulation of labor policies, and more specifically the formulation of strategies in the field of cultural labor, in public services that respond to labor problems, in institutions that educate the upcoming workforce, and in spaces that play a role in contemporary art practices. The spatial and temporal positioning of works for (re)viewing by both institutional staff and invited and casual visitors aims to widen the field of visibility of the artwork and its reception. In the second chapter (2023), the artworks will be presented in their entirety in exhibition and performance formats.

21.11. - 22.11.2200

Teja Reba, Špela Trošt: Na delo!, zadnjič, Španski borci

Na delo!, zadnjič
Španski borci, 21.11.2024 ob 20h in 22.11.2024 ob 18h

Tri leta že to delamo. Vsakič drugje, vsakič z drugimi ljudmi, vsakič nekaj novega. Obdelali smo razredno zavest in logiko želje, koristno in nekoristno delo, poškodbe na delu, rutino, produktivnost in penzije. Kaj ostane? To, da enkrat rečeš: konec je. Da obračunaš s svojim delom. Da se posloviš.

Zasnova in vodstvo: Teja Reba in Špela Trošt
Soavtorji: Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Katja Legin, Lana Zdravković
Nastopajo: Loup Abramovici, Mary Anne Blanche, Vesna Godler, Tomaž Grom, Liana Kalčina, Marjeta Kamnikar, Katja Legin, Marija Pantić, Teja Reba, Špela Trošt, Lana Zdravković
Oblikovanje svetlobe: Špela Škulj
Oblikovanje zvoka: Tomaž Grom
Produkcija: Teja Reba
Koprodukcija: Zavod Sploh
Partner: Španski borci


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