Artists and cultural workers in Slovenia survived a turbulent, insecure, sleepless, and exhausting year and members of the artistic team of CoFestival joined activist cultural comrades-in-arms in the fight for the assurance of basic conditions for artistic and cultural work.
This year’s programme of CoFestival would make European Constructivists very proud, as several aspects are related to the artistic tendencies of this movement. The treatment of choreographic, architectural, production, organisational, technological, bodily, and, with the latter, also existential materialities is repositioned from the level of composition to the level of (interdisciplinary) artistic construction in almost all works of this year’s CoFestival. In them, the work of art includes besides the final product also its procedural and material properties and specialities but even – since we are dealing with dance or choreographic works – a certain determination through the physical properties that are opening political and social implications in the dancing bodies.