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Via Negativa is a Ljubljana-based contemporary performance platform operating since 2002, providing an open space for artists working across diverse performance practices. Founded to explore theatre's meaning at the turn of the millennium, VN has become a key player in the "production of contemporaneity" in Slovenia and European contemporary performance art.
Operating through the VN Lab, the platform develops innovative performance strategies and creative processes that cross boundaries between performance art, theatre, dance, lecture, concert, video, installation, and intervention. VN's heterogeneous formats reintegrate various disciplines into unexpected and unconventional artistic expressions.
Through twenty years of conceptually focused activity and long-term cycles, Via Negativa has marked significant shifts in creative practices and performance strategies. Artistic director Bojan Jablanovec will discuss the platform's sustained commitment to experimental performance practice and the redefinition of contemporary artistic expression.