Performative installation based on the work of Oswald Spengler

cast: Táňa Pauhofová, Silvia Sviteková, Hana Gallinová, Alexandra Lukáčová, Sára Polyáková

concept and direction: Anton Korenči
choreography: Stanislava Vlčeková
music: Jozef Vlk
set and costume design: Ondrej Zachar
video design: Alex Zelina
production: Anna Rumanová, María Magálová
camera: Juraj Mráz
edit: María Magálová

premiere: 21.7.2021 (DPOH, Bratislava)
duration: 55min

"I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can only be kept up by shutting one’s eyes to the overwhelming multitude of the facts, the drama of a number of mighty Cultures, each springing with primitive strength from the soil of a mother-region to which it remains firmly bound throughout its whole life-cycle; each stamping its material, its mankind, in its own image; each having its own idea, its own passions, its own life, will and feeling, its own death. Here indeed are colours, lights, movements, that no intellectual eye has yet discovered. Here the Cultures, peoples, languages, truths, gods, landscapes bloom and age as the oaks and the stone-pines, the blossoms, twigs and leaves — but there is no ageing “Mankind.” Each Culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay, and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, one physics, but many, each in its deepest essence different from the others, each limited in duration and self-contained, just as each species of plant has its peculiar blossom or fruit, its special type of growth and decline. These cultures, sublimated life-essences, grow with the same superb aimlessness as the flowers of the field." (Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West)

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