DIRECTING SCENOGRAPHY ABOUT
THE STATE
Jan Krmelj, Klara Debeljak, Lučka Neža Peterlin
Premiere: 28. 19 2025, Cankarjev Dom and Maska
Direction: Jan Krmelj
Scenography and Video Design: Dorian Šilec Petek
Dramaturgy: Lučka Neža Peterlin
Light Design: Igor Remeta
Costume Design: Brina Vidic
Music: Paloma Pertod
Asistant scenographer: Lucija Zuchhiati
How to think of the state at a time when we have become citizens of a global state, a state of consumption and exploitation? How to reflect on community, how to reflect on a sense of belonging? The state is a machine. The state is inscribed through the bodies of those who inhabit it, but also those who flee from it or cannot locate their identity within it. A fiction, which we may or may not choose to believe in, but one that we constantly establish and which constantly defines us. The state is an electric current. Its dynamics are determined by financial and geopolitical interests, endless wars, corporate powers, the measurability and predictability of our habits. A present turning into history, dispersed across fields of silicon. The State is an algorithm. In this, the neural economy is analogous to the economy of theatre, which at its core is the art of anticipation: an anticipation of effect and of the structure of an event.