HAPPY END
2024/2025 — Season 69
Image Snatchers / Photo by: Nada Žgank

Technoburlesque Image Snatchers

Production: Emanat
Première: 24. 4. 2013 (Klub Gromka)
Performances
Friday / 27 Dec / 20:00 / Lower hall / Sold out
Saturday / 28 Dec / 20:00 / Lower hall / Sold out
Cast
  • Feminalz
Credits
  • Music: Feminalz, Luka Prinčič
  • Lighting design: Aljaž Zaletel
  • Make-up artist: Tina Prpar
  • Costume design: Tanja Pađan/Kiss the Future
Description

Technoburlesque is a mute comedy of the body that mocks rigidity of social roles. It uncritically appropriates, copies and glues together femininity, masculinity, family relationships, machismo and other degenerated social roles that are unrighteous considered to be normative. When Image Snatchers totally expose themselves — and remove their social dresses layer by layer — they do not find the essence, but realize that the essence is nothingness, and the performed travesties opium that makes living bearable. This amusing play in cross-dressing and their behavior are a result of great sexual and bodily liberation from social bands. Satisfied in eclectic noise of media images they stretch popular snap-shots and bite them to their unheard-of forms that provoke burst of laughter or despair. Image Snatchers don't seek for meaning but pleasure. As pleasure is the hedonistic polish with which they smeared everyday objects and made something exceptional out of them. Technoburlesque is an intersection of (program/cybernetic) code and subjectivity; a laying bare of the physical and emotional body indivisibly bound up with the information matrix of contemporaneity.

Sponsors

Finančna podpora: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana