Agmisterium (The Last Time)

Premiere 2. 11. 2024, Stara mestna elektrarna

Running time 8 hours. Entry and exit are possible at any time during the performance.

Author of concept Klemen Kovačič

Choreographers Klemen Kovačič, Nik Žnidaršič

Text author Klemen Kovačič

Dramaturg Nik Žnidaršič

Dramaturgical and choreographic collaborator Maša Radi Buh

Lighting designer Bor Ravbar

Sound designer and Original music composer Gašper Lovrec

Stage interventions Blaž Andrašek, Gašper Lovrec, Maša Radi Buh, Bor Ravbar, Nik Žnidaršič

Performer Klemen Kovačič

The AGMYSTERIUM is the settlement of the author/performer with himself, which unfolds on his body in the form of a durational performance. It brings to the fore the question of the relation between the tangible, earthly, everyday and the sacred, poetic, transcendent. With the desire to transcend his own individuality, he looks autobiographically into the past and lays out memories as an obstacle course for universal questions: coming to oneself as the search for meaning; memory as the bearer of identity, its deceitfulness and simultaneous fatality; solitude as the basis of faith; and the unexpectedness of transcendent feelings in the small moments of existence. We were clearly mistaken when we imagined a god greater than us.

In terms of forms, it reaches for two theatrical means – durational performance and butoh – and relies on their immanent element : absolute presence. It is precisely and only with this kind of positioning in the here and now that the possibility of a dimension beyond opens up.