Evakuacija Duha (theatre performance)

A theatre performance entitled Evakuacija duha (Spirit Evacuation) is based on letters, songs and constructivist pieces by Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet from Karst region.

Consisting exclusively of the poet’s opus, the text of the show allows us to think about our time while listening about the poet’s time. We manifest contradictory fragments of an individual, who is not like Leonardo da Vinci; who is not “a statue of a person, unmoved through the ages,” for da Vinci is a myth. But a person is more than that, a person is dynamic. Even though Kosovel tactfully concealed details of his personal life (most likely in order to keep his Poetry at the forefront of historiography), we aim to recognise the person he was, a person who could have been our friend, colleague, brother; someone who faced the same existential angst that we are facing right now … and not someone who is merely a transhistorical figure, the collective story of our nation. Through ten theatrical scenes, we try to understand Srečko Kosovel in order to understand his Myth, and thus honour the person he was.

Evakuacija duha (Evacuation of the Spirit) performance was scheduled for 11 October as part of the artistic programme of the Avantgarde and the End of the World conference on the xMobil platform, which is part of GO! 2025 official programme, but unfortunately had to be postponed due to illness in the ensemble. As part of the conference and European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica - Gorizia programme, the cast will move through the space of the Xcentre in Nova Gorica, where the conference took place on 12 October.

The main organisers of the conference are the University of Nova Gorica, the Humanities Research Centre and the Faculty of Humanities.

You can access the official conference website here.