Sex Education II
- Performer
- Sendi BakotićPerformer
- Nika RozmanPerformer
- Vanda VelagićPerformer
- Tea VidmarSound Performer
- Set design: Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
- Visuals and costume design: Tijana Todorović
- Music: Tea Vidmar
- Music selection: Tjaša Črnigoj, Lina Akif, Tijana Todorović, Barbara Kapelj
- Experts from the field: dr. Gabrijela Simetinger, dr. Maja Vehar, Alja Lobnik
- Speech advisor: Mateja Dermelj
- Editing audio tapes and sound design: Klara Otorepec, Marijan Sajovic, Jure Vlahovič, Silvo Zupančič
- Lighting design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše, Manca Vukelič, Igor Remeta
- Make-up and hair artist: Nathalie Horvat
- Make-up and hair assistant: Maja Miklavčič
- Translation: Urška Brodar, Tina Malič, Barbara Skubic
- Producer: Tina Dobnik
- Stage manager: Demijan Pintarič
Also performing: Tjaša Črnigoj, Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović
In the 2022/2023 season, a series of five lecture-performances entitled Sex Education II which use various angles and performing practices to shed a light on the right to sexual pleasure as a fundamental part of sexual rights as a matter of human rights, were created at The New Post Office. The lecture-performances are based on conversations with women who shared their personal stories, experiences and problems, as well as interviews with experts from various fields.
Diagnosis addresses vaginismus** and painful sexual intercourse, which, according to some studies, are experienced by 40 percent of women. Consentire opens up a space for reflection on what consensual sex actually means and what consensus practices look like. Ability is based on the stories of four women with disabilities recounting their sexual maturation, attitude towards their bodies, sex and relationships. Play is about unconventional sexual practices, also known as “kink”. In Fight, the artists reconstruct the efforts to improve reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, which only implicitly included sexual rights, but paved the way towards the discourse that we are having today about the right to sexual pleasure.
In autumn 2023, the creators will perform all five lecture-performances one after another as part of a full-day event.
*By women we mean all women (trans, intersex and cis).
**Vaginismus is considered the most severe sexual disorder in women. It is a spasm of the pelvic floor muscles, which makes vaginal penetration completely impossible, even if the woman desires it.
- Week of Slovenian Drama, Kranj, 28 March 2024
- Maribor Theatre Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, 8 June 2024
- Audience Award at the 54th Week of Slovenian Drama (2024)
- Special Award of the jury at the 54th Week of Slovenian Drama for an innovative performative approach to a sensitive topic (2024)
Testni poligon: Reparativne prakse za nov kulturni ekosistem je projekt, ki ga s podporo EU programa Kreativna Evropa razvijajo in izvajajo Kurziv – Platforma za vprašnja kulture, medijev in družbe, Združenje Stanisława Brzozowskega/Krytyka Polityczna in Maska Ljubljana. / The project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem is conceived and carried out by Kurziv – Platformfor Matters of Culture, Media and Society, Stanisław Brzozowski Association / Krytyka Polityczna and Maska Ljubljana, with the support of the EU programme Creative Europe.
Abandoned Plants Sanctuary, Archive of Yugoslavia (Belgrade), archive of the Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG), Beata Absalon, Lana Akif, Lina Akif, Sendi Bakotić, Boštjan Bebar, Dr Ivan Bernik, Pia Brezavšček, Urška Brodar, Ana Marija Brđanović, Croatian National Archive, CNT Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka, Dr Tea Dakić, Mateja Dermelj, Daša Doberšek, Tina Dobnik, Mojca Dobnikar, Boris Dragan, Andreja Dugandžić – Association for Culture and Art RED and Archive of Antifascist Struggle of Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, ES Osram, Ceci Ferox, Florist Regina, Gabriele Fuso, German Hygiene Museum Dresden, Dr Jasenka Grujić, Jernej Hazimali, Urška Henigman, Nathalie Horvat, Sara Horžen, Žiga Hren, Goran Injac, Interdisciplinary research team About feminist pleasure, Vlasta Jalušič, Urška Jež, Tjaša Juhart, Katarina Jurjavčič, Juta, Ana and Breda Kapelj, Barbara Kapelj, Dušan Kohek, Dr Roman Kuhar, Boris Kuselj, Marcella Lagalante, Borut Laznik, Lene Lekše, Leonišče, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Alja Lobnik, Maca Maček, Shiler Mahmoudi, Janja Majzelj, Tina Malič, Tina Merica, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Tibor Mihelič Syed, Ministry of Justice, Museum of Women of Montenegro, Anja Novak, Tajda Novšak, Vitomir Obal, Borut Opetnik, Klara Otorepec, Miloš Pavlović, Elena Pečarič, Dr Bojana Pinter, Draga Potočnjak, Tim Prezelj, Janez Prohinar, Matej Recer, Tanja Rener, Katarina Rižnar, Nika Rozman, Anja Sabol, Žiga Sedevčič, Dr Gabrijela Simetinger, Dr Jelena Simić – Museum of Science and Technology (Museum of Serbian Medicine of the Serbian Medical Association), Nina Skrbinšek, Rafaella Smith Fiallo, SNT Drama Ljubljana, Kres Snyder, Jaka Sotlar, Katarina Stegnar, Mojca Stegnar, SVŠGUGL, Blaž Šef, Nina Škvarč, Dr Iztok Šori, Dr Aleksandar Štulhofer, Dr Alenka Švab, The Sisterhood of the Proud Dolphin, Prof. Laze Tripkov, Darja Urbanc, Dr Maja Vehar, Vanda Velagić, Aleksandra Vujović, Steven De Weirdt, Jaka Žilavec, Tery Žeželj