Marketa Slana, Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko – SEPIA #704214

Anja Leko, Andrej Beštak and Marketa Slana – SEPIA#704214

Thu 27.06.2024, 20.30h l MQ Summer Stage, Main Courtyard l Free entry

Sepia #704214 is a performance piece, a soft poetic space where soundscape, moving images and performative acts evolve from chaotic and dissonant to harmonious and soothing, mirroring the emotional journey of letting go.
Developing a performance art piece around the rituals of letting go allows for a deep exploration of human emotions and experiences. By integrating personal stories, collective choreography, and symbolic acts, the performance is mimicking the experience of catharsis and transformation as well as the experiencing dichotomy of being part-of and being individualistic. How to find our self, which is sleeping in the center of our being and is covered in layers of noise and cacophony the surrounding world has accumulated on us?
Self-realization, personal development tips, and motivational quotes belong to the everyday vocabulary of our generation as a response, an integral part and result of the neoliberal call for productive development and individual discovery.
Struggle to break free from the constant observation, or being observed, content telling you right from wrong or pure escapism and entertaining. This piece deals with nostalgia for simplicity or rather finding the way how to navigate overwhelming quantities of information.

Anja Leko and Andrej Beštak are currently Artists-in-Residence in cooperation with tranzit.org/ERSTE Stiftungat MuseumsQuartier.