02/03/2023
Sex education II: Ability
08/03/2023
Sex Education II: Games
01/06/2023
Sex Education II: The Struggle
07/10/2023
08/10/2023
Sex Education II: one-day events
New Post Office/Nova Pošta, Ljubljana
Through a series of 5 lecture-performances, the creators explore topics such as painful sexual relations and vaginismus, consent, the sexual pleasure of women with disabilities, alternative sexual practices and the history of sex education in Yugoslavia. A series of lectures-performances connected and developed into a two full-day events in October 2023.
Sex education II: Ability
The ability is based on the stories of four women about their sexual maturation, relationship to their own bodies, sexuality and partner relationships. What the four women have in common is that they live with a handicap and, as Elena Pečarič says in her essay So beautiful, but disabled, they are doubly discriminated against, as persons with a handicap and as women. In our country, at the systemic level, the sexuality of people with disabilities is overlooked, and there is a particular lack of sex education in this area, and social care workers decide at their own discretion whether they should help women with disabilities with their sexuality itself, since this is not included in the description of their job duties .
Sex Education II: Games
With a lecture-performance of the Game female creators venture into the field of sexual practices, which in urban parlance are also called kink. The games are based on conversations with individuals who practice BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism) and other unconventional practices, and their sexual behavior is either monogamous or non-monogamous. Such practices are still stigmatized in society as something depraved. Otherwise, they are depicted more and more often in pop culture, but their representation is almost always superficial. Furthermore, the very marginality of these practices actually increases the risk of abuse. Therefore, it might surprise many that people who practice them actually emphasize caring for themselves and others and pay attention to longer and deeper relationships, awareness of social roles, distance, ethical consideration.
Sex Education II: The Struggle
lecture-performance series reconstructs the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, which touched on sexual rights only implicitly, but paved the way for the right to sexual pleasure, which we are talking about today. The struggle dates back to the period between and after the Second World War, when the so-called epidemic of (unprofessional) abortions claimed the lives of many women. At that time, abortion was illegal and punishable by imprisonment, and the concept of marital rape did not exist in the legal sense. Biographies of Vida Tomšič, partisan and important Yugoslav politician, and Dr. Franca Novak-Luk, a partisan, an important gynecologist and the second husband of Vida Tomšič, outline the development of progressive politics for that time: the development of the idea of family planning as a human right and the right to sex education, which goes beyond the biological conception of sexuality and puts these human relations between the sexes at the center of the question. At a time when society is re-traditionalizing and politicians are again questioning the right to safe abortion and contraception, it seems that this is something that needs to be fought for again and again, because it is not taken for granted that a woman’s body is only in her owned.
Sex education II: Ability
Director: Tjaša Črnigoj
Performer: Lina Akif
Sound performer: Tea Vidmar
Music: Tea Vidmar
Image and costume design: Tijana Todorović
Scenography: Barbara Kapelj
Lending voice: Katarina Stegnar
Editing of sound recordings and sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Barbara Kapelj
Translation: Tina Malič
Producer: Tina Dobnik
Director of the show: Demijan Pintarič
Co-production: Nova pošta (Maska Ljubljana and Slovenian Youth Theatre) and City of Women
Acknowledgments:
Lana Akif, Boštjan Bebar, Sendi Bakotić, Urška Brodar, Tina Dobnik, Jernej Hazimila, Urška Henigman, Interdisciplinary Research Group On Feminist Pleasure, Alja Lobnik, Tina Malič, Jaka Sotlar, Tibor Mihelič Syed, Borut Laznik, Borut Opetnik, Gabriele Fuso, Klara Otorepec, Elena Pečarič, Sisterhood of the proud dolphin, Žiga Sedevčič, Katarina Stegnar, SVŠGUGL, Vanda Velagić, Steven De Weirdt
Sex Education II: Games
Costume design: Tijana Todorović
Scenography: Barbara Kapelj
Juti voice lent: Janja Majzelj
Tari voice lent: Nathalie Horvat
Music selection: Tjaša Črnigoj, Lina Akif, Tijana Todorović, Barbara Kapelj
Sound editing and sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Light design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Barbara Kapelj
Translation: Tina Malič
Director of the show: Demijan Pintarič
Interlocutors who shared their experiences: Doris Pandžić, Juta, Tara and Iris
The project is created as part of a series of lectures-performances, in which Nika Rozman, Sendi Bakotić and Vanda Velagić participate as authors and performers, and Alja Lobnik, dr. Gabrijela Simetinger and dr. Maja Vehar as expert collaborators.
The project is created as part of a series of lectures-performances, in which Nika Rozman, Sendi Bakotić and Vanda Velagić participate as authors and performers, and Alja Lobnik, dr. Gabrijela Simetinger and dr. Maja Vehar
Co-production: Nova pošta (Maska Ljubljana and Slovenian Youth Theatre) and City of Women
Acknowledgments:
Anomandy, Sendi Bakotić, dr. Ivan Bernik, Urška Brodar, Tina Dobnik, Ceci Ferox, Urška Henigman, Nathalie Horvat, Interdisciplinary Research Group On Feminist Pleasure, Alja Lobnik, Goran Injac, Juta, Puppet Theater Ljubljana, Janja Majzelj, Tina Malič, Tibor Mihelič Syed, Klara Otorepec, Miloš Pavlović, Žiga Sedevčič, Sisterhood of the Proud Dolphin, Rafaella Smith Fiallo, SNG Drama Ljubljana, Kres Snyder, Jaka Sotlar, dr. Iztok Šori, Vanda Velagić
Sex Education II: The Struggle
Author and director: Tjaša Črnigoj
Author and performer: Sendi Bakotić
Author and performer: Vanda Velagić
Author, scenographer and costume designer: Tijana Todorović
Author and scenographer: Lene Lekše
Professional collaborator: dr. Maja Vehar
Interlocutor for the biographies of Vida Tomšič and Franc Novak: Živa Novak
Vidi Tomšič voice lent by: Draga Potočnjak
Franc Novak voice lent by: Matej Recer
Grandmother’s voice: Nina Skrbinšek
Voice of the announcer: Sara Horžen
Music selection: author of the lecture-performance
Language consultant: Mateja Dermelj
The lecture-performance uses archival materials from the Museum of Recent and Contemporary History of Slovenia, the archive of RTV Slovenia, the Archive of the Republic of Slovenia and from the personal archive of Živa Novak.
Editing and processing of audio recordings: Jure Vlahovič and Silva Zupančič
Web portal editor: Tery Žeželj Producer: Tina Dobnik
Photographer: Nada Žgank
Videographer and editor: Hana Vodeb
Technical managers of the show: Manca Vukelič, Igor Remeta
Light designers: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Director of the show: Demijan Pintarič
Public relations: Urska Comino (Mask), Helena Grahek (Mladinsko)
Designer: Mina Fina – group Ee
Production: Nova pošta (Mask Ljubljana and Slovenian Youth Theater)
Co-production: Mesto Women’s
Partnership: Collective of Actresses
The project is created as part of a series of lectures-performances, in which Nika Rozman and Lina Akif participate as authors and performers, and Alja Lobnik and Dr. Gabriela Simetinger as expert collaborators.
Sex Education II: one-day events
On October 7, from 3 to 10 pm, and October 8, from 3 to 11 pm, five lecture-performances of Sex Education II series were combined together in day-long happening. This event took place within the City of Women festival.
Authors: Tjaša Črnigoj, Lina Akif, Sendi Bakotić, Nika Rozman, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović, Barbara Kapelj, Tea Vidmar, Lene Lekše; director: Tjaša Črnigoj; music: Tea Vidmar; set design: Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše; costume design: Tijana Todorović; performers: Lina Akif, Sendi Bakotić, Nika Rozman, Vanda Velagić; music and performer: Tea Vidmar; also performing: Tjaša Črnigoj, Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović; music selection: authors of lecture performance; experts from the field: Dr. Gabrijela Simetinger, dr. Maja Vehar, Alja Lobnik
Vida Tomšič’s voice: Draga Potočnjak; Franc Novak’s voice: Matej Recer; the voice of the midwife: Nina Skrbinšek; the voice of the broadcaster: Sara Horžen; music selection: authors; language consultant: Mateja Dermelj; women who shared their experiences: Doris Pandžić, Juta, Tara in Iris; Juta’s voice: Janja Majzelj; Tara’s voice: Nathalie Horvat; Nuri’s voice: Katarina Stegnar
They shared their experiences: Martina Piskač (together with Uroš Sedej), Doris Pandžić, Iris, Juta, Linda, Nura, Suzana, Tara, Tjaša, and anonymous interviewees.
The lectures-performances include statements from experts: Dr. Gabrijele Simetinger, Elena Pečarič, Jernej Hazimali, and Steven De Weirdt.
Biographical information for Vida Tomšič and Franc Novak provided by Živa Novak.