Tuesday, 29 September, 6 PM Luka Jovanov will perform The Line, a participatory performance in which a spatial, and consequently social, system is gradually established in front of the audience. Starting from the simple need for a line from a text to be spoken, passed on and shared, the performance develops as an inevitable sequence of rules, roles, proposals, rights and procedures, with each new rule emerging in response to a problem produced by the previous one. In an attempt to protect the participants, distribute responsibility and enable their freedom, the system becomes increasingly complex and increasingly (in)capable of organising that freedom. The stage action is shaped by existing texts, pre-assigned proposals, and participation in decisions whose scope has already been determined by existing rules. In this way, participation gradually…
