Transport: Departure

Departure through an intimate story sheds light on the excessive exploitation of natural resources, which
leads to the disruption of ecosystem balance. This imbalance is increasingly manifesting itself in the rise
of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, and wildfires, affecting millions of people worldwide.
In addition to ecological concerns, the performance also addresses the inadequacies of spatial planning
policies, which further increase environmental vulnerability. Departure is not merely an aesthetic
reflection but also a metaphor for the urgency of change. The performance highlights the idea of departing from
current destructive practices and systems and shifting towards sustainable alternatives.

Justification of the selector of 13TH BIENNIAL OF PUPPETRY ARTISTS OF SLOVENIA
After stop-motion animation was introduced as a new puppet expression in the performance Cargo, the second
performance in the Transport series, entitled Departure, faced a completely different challenge: how to place this new expression in the staging space, how to domesticate it, and at the same time how to enrich the whole with the intertwining of these two worlds.
In this performance, Tin Grabnar and the Ljubljana puppeteers softened the stop-animation a bit and added some animation elements, thus enriching the expressive side of the performance with very beautiful scenic and puppet solutions, such as the scene with rain and
a storm that knocks down trees. Stop-motion animation in this context is no longer a novelty but has become one of the building blocks of puppetry, dramaturgically co-shaping the performance.