Glej,
Una Bauer: What Matters

"A group gathered at the edge of a map blurred by a soup stain"

About lecture-performance

This lecture performance reflects on forms of sharing and sociality within small groups, informed by the (urgent) need to develop future forms of social support. The work emerged from explorations of what becomes possible when listening and speaking are taken as relational practices – unguarded, improvisational and situated between individuals.

At its heart is a proposal for an evolving, decentralised “people’s club” – a chain of intimate gatherings initiated by a group of 5–8 invited participants. Each group convenes around a selected artistic artefact – be it a film, performance, text or visual work – related to a shared theme of futurism. There is no introduction, no fixed agenda. The conversation that follows is spontaneous, associative and ephemeral. Each participant then becomes a host, inviting 5–8 more into the same structure. The only requirement: a reflection on the experience afterwards.

This project asks how publics are made. What forms of care and risk accompany shared attention?

Credits

Author: Una Bauer
Participants: Ana Kuzmanić, Alja Lobnik, Jasmina Založnik, Tatiana Kocmur, Olja Grubić, Teuta Tea Gatolin, Nataša Bodrožić, Sanja Sekelj, Ana Čavić, Ida Hirsenfelder, Saška Rakef, Nika Arhar
Producer: Lučka Neža Peterlin (Maska Ljubljana)
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana

About the performer

Una Bauer is a performance, dance, and theatre scholar with a particular interest in emotions, affects and the social dimensions of art. She is an assistant professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she teaches in the dramaturgy department. In addition to her academic work, she is a licensed group therapist. Her publications include Priđite bliže: o kazalištu i drugim radostima (“Come Closer: On Theatre and other Joys”; 2015) and BADco.: Vježbanje nemogućeg (“BADco.: Practicing the Impossible”; 2021). She was a collaborators in the project Narrating Fear and is currently involved in the project Normanel – Normality and Discomfort, both led by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb.

Part of Futurizmi cycle: Glej, Gledališče - Futurizmi