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Platforma 9.81, Drama studio 'Novi zivot', [BLOK] (Croatia)
Mallwalkers 1
20 December, 12am - 2pm
Kaptol centre, Nova ves 11
authors
Mario Kovac, Vojin Peric, Marko Sancanin
performers
Anita Matkovic, Vojin Peric, Zeko Miljenko, Kristina Sporcic, Ruzica Drenski, Mario Glibo, Igor Kucevic, Ruzica Domic, Dajana Biondic, Marija Pucak, Skaljo Nijaz
Shopping malls are spaces reserved exclusively for the average majority (through its architecture and function) characterised by the high level of cultural control and social distance. Minority social groups are left out. Strictly controlled environment of pleasure and consumerist culture is not prepared to handle marginalized social groups. Shopping malls are inadequate for the blind - sound environment does not posses clearly differentiated sound scale that would help in orientation.
A group of blind persons (actors from the New Life drama studio) enters the territory that it cannot handle. They will attempt to find paths of "consumerist survival" in the given surrounding by exploring the visual landscape lacking sound and tactile landmarks. Communication with other consumers could be one of the paths. Success is uncertain. Visual advertising aggression cannot reach them; they move in the chaotic noise of voices, musical background and public announcements supported by the mixture of synthesised smells. They walk the labyrinth of space, leading always to the wish for shopping, in a completely different manner. Points that control consumers' wishes slip away. They are aware of the cameras surveying them, marking precisely the space and interactions they caused.
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