Sculpture installation and street performance

Zoran Srdić Janežič and Jana Putrle Srdić: Toilet Whispering

Francoske revolucije square

 

Toilets and whores, public debates and oral eroticism are the connective elements of the artivistic street performance Toilet Whispering. In the toilet booths created as art objects by three Slovene sculptors, numerous women intellectuals, artists and humanists will offer their services and specialised knowledge under the conduct of the pimp Rok Kušlan and in the interaction with the visitors. Equipped with enormous knowledge, wit and verbal skills, these “intellectual whores” guarantee an interesting intellectual debate to be held in intimate spaces inspired by public toilets from the Roman city of Emona. In a dozen of evenings, the project aims at establishing a space for public debate which nowadays – in face of the disruptive influence of the media and the general social atmosphere – seems to be all too frequently absent, as well as to evaluate anew the under-rated precarious intellectual work.

 

Zoran Srdić Janežič is engaged in sculpture, inter-media art and puppet making. He is employed in Puppet Theatre Ljubljana as puppet maker. He exhibited his works at some twenty personal and numerous group exhibitions. Jana Putrle Srdić is a poet with two published books of poems and numerous published poems abroad, and a temporary translator of poetry and writer. She worked for several cultural organisations as a producer, while currently she is engaged in their Gulag Institute for Contemporary Art and Cultures.

 

/8 September  – 10 October/

/Performances every Thursday and Friday between 8.30 and 10.30 pm/

Co-produced by Gulag Institute for Contemporary Art and Cultures, and Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana