Minor Planets

Abstract

Minor Planets is a performance by Vlatka Horvat for five performers who work to make sense of themselves and their relation to each other as they traverse an impoverished landscape of detritus, wooden planks and fabric scraps. Using decidedly inadequate resources, and locked in a decaying set of rules and mischievous games, the five negotiate a place for themselves, making and re-making the world they inhabit. Beginning initially with research into the Russian Revolution, the project draws on my experience of living through the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and its legacy of confusion and opportunism. Looking at how people deal with structural collapse, the piece speaks to the broader landscape of uncertainty that marks current events. Minor Planets is co-comissioned by HAU – Hebbel am Ufer and HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt; and presented by HAU Berlin in the programme of their 'Utopian Realities' platform, part of the larger "100 Years of Now" research project, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and overseen by HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.