Karmina Šilec: OVIS
25 % sound and music
45 % theatre essays
30 % performance
During the event, which lasts 4 hours and 30 minutes, including an intermission, the audience moves between the venues of the Minoriti Cultural Quarter.
Sheep have been central to the human story.
The key player in human history, this remarkable animal has been feeding, healing, clothing, and supporting us to prosperity and misery, to build empires and devastate landscapes, to decorate our homes and discover new continents, to build cities and create works of art. Sheep are not just cattle waiting to become meat.
OVIS brings this everyday species to the fore. It explores some of the profound impact sheep have had on humanity and natural world, their origin, and other extraordinary things humans have learned from them. Their role in our diets has changed us biologically; they are essential to modern medicine, science and industry; and they hold huge symbolic value in many cultures. The success or failure of civilisations has depended on sheep. OVIS gives these creatures a chance to tell their story.
COLLABORATORS
Dr. Samatha Balaton Chrimes, Dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki, Jasmina Črnčič, Dr. Mladen Dolar, Andrej Fon, Dr. Andrej Hozjan, Dr. Lochlann Jain, Minca Lorenci, Gregor Luštek, Dr. Teja Brooks Pribac, Dr.Maja Rupnik, Dr. Juan Manuel Tebes, Dr. Terezija Snežna Vrečko, Gregor Zorc, Projektni zbor CHOREGIE
Production Carmina Slovenica, 2024
In cooperation with The Maribor Puppet Theatre, The Minoriti Cultural Quarter, Newmusic-theatre Choregie.