NENAD JELESIJEVIĆ: 

PATHOS SPECTACULUS: Prayer


 

oh mercy mother and gods of corruption

all apologies

all in all is all i am

i let go compulsion i take on freedom

the force is within me

i’ve got the power

i’m free

mwakaribishwa

 

Moulting of performance into a ritual.

Voice. Drums. Torches. Many.

Prayer demands its space. Prayer exceeds the body which voices it. Prayer goes further.

A certain force. Not any force, a crucial force.

Nenad Jelesijevič will pass from bare performativity to transcendence which alludes its return to him in a form of freedom – a freedom sensitive to repression, but also an entirely forgiving freedom.

We should enter.

 

# construction of freedom # stand against coercion # recognize power in voice




concept & execution: Nenad Jelesijević * production: Kitch * co-funding: City of Ljubljana

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