Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico | Croatia/Italy/France
I’ve never done this before
ca. 80 min
in English
Performance
Production: 1er Stratagème, Omnibus | Coproduction: Cie Omnibus (Zagreb), Kaaitheater (Brüssel), Menagerie de verre (Paris) | Funded by: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its program “New Settings” | Supported by: DRAC Ile-de- France, DICRéAM, Croatian Ministry of Culture| Residency: Parc de la Villette (Paris), Museum for Contemporary Art (Zagreb)
Concept: Giuseppe Chico, Barbara Matijević | Performed by: Barbara Matijević | Technical supervision and artistic collaboration: Ivan Marušić Klif | Technical assistance, programming: Igor Brkic, Igor Petrovic | Collaboration in animatronics: Matthieu Schönholzer | Object design: Ivan Marušić Klif, Giuseppe Chico | Light: Florian Leduc, Melchior Delaunay | Sound: Viktor Krasnic | Production, management: Dantès Pigeard
German Premiere
“I’ve never done this before“ delves into the amateur culture represented on YouTube videos. Thanks to widely available sophisticated technology, almost any individual can turn their living room into a generator of narratives. The performance creates an unusual poetics of home-made representations by offering a subjective repertoire inspired by the objects and worlds created by anonymous individuals of the digital age.
