The performance Room with no Echo takes the experience of an anechoic chamber (a no-echo-room) as a starting point of its exploration and development.

Anechoic chamber is a content-removing structure. Allegedly humans can’t bare to stay in it for longer periods of time. Symptoms are irrational fear, anxiety and severe insecurity.

Anechoic chamber is the melting pot of embodiment, a space where no Other exists: it results in excommunicated, asocial and naked body. It is a room without echo, a space of communication absence, in which the subject (person) becomes completely objectified – it meets its own matter and her functions. Subject re-turns to its organic being without the possibility of re-connecting with the environment. His being has been abstracted from the process of communication: anechoic chamber represents a capsule of total isolation, a symbolic space of existence without information. Subject’s environment is defined solely by the layer of own skin covering carnal content that has no reflection capacity – the space of anechoic chamber has no walls that could reflect his mental environment and, by doing so, face subject with itself.

Performance builds on this conflict on the level of the body experience representation – body sounds, digestion, body-liquids flow, decay, movement, touch. It reveals self-touching layers, discovers the body’s geography.

Performance deals with experiments on such phenomena. It plots possible interpretations of the above mentioned experiences and states of mind. It refuses to represent such kind of experiences, rather they are being taken as departure points of the process: it is the plot of the situation that enables the research of embodiment. Firstly with sound – sound emotions, situations and realities; and secondly through relations of sound with space, environments or body-geographies and the body history (video).

Science and technology is therefore a fundamental pattern of the performance overwhelming it with its concept and structure. Room with no Echo is an experimental project assembling and re-destructing contemporary human body: physical and social.

Concept, directing: Miha Erman
Sound design and music: Matej Ocepek
Video: Jasmin Talundžić
Performers: Primož Bezjak, Bor Pungerčič
Costume design: Aleksandra Brlan
Consultant for audiovisual media: Melita Zajc
Production: Muzeum Ljubljana
Co-production: ZVIKS
In collaboration with Pekarna Maribor

In the frame of the project “Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts: European Contemporary Production”

Without language barrier.

Admission: 3,50 / 2,00 € (adults / students)
Reservations: rezervacie@stanica.sk, 041 – 56 23 564