Neža Lučka Peterlin: The Lamb

About the event

With its poetic density and diverse optics of expression, Neža Lučka Peterlin’s The Lamb presents a directing challenge when it comes to the selection of the sound materials. What should be pronounced, what heard, what withheld? How can we even express nature through creativity, the field that humans have appropriated for ourselves? And if we believe that a sound recording in itself is objective, a "mere" fact, any kind of collating or structuring is nevertheless anthropocentric. The radio play thus tries to read the text by playing through the illusions humans foster in relation to their understanding of nature; this narration, rationalisation and evaluation open the gap between humans and nature every time. Because a view other than anthropocentric is not possible, regardless of how objective a position we attempt to maintain, this radio play wants to explore different concepts of recording: from sound design that follows the dramaturgy of the classical radio-play form to documentary or bioacoustic material, the research of different sound languages with the attempts of sonification and sound modulation of frequencies. The merging of different sound languages will not seek to unveil the correct language of communication and of experiencing ecology in the modern landscape, but rather to create gaps in which our systemic, explanatory and categorising mind can rest, or even stop. Nature is a moment that has already passed when we hear ourselves.

 

Director: Ana Krauthaker

Radio Slovenija – program Ars, Prešeren Theatre Kranj

 

A discussion with the creators will follow the event.

 

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