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Damir Todorović As It Is

Due to illness of the performer the performance has been cancelled.

performance
FR 14.03.2014 20:30 cancelled
SA 15.03.2014 20:30 cancelled

© Charlotte Walker
© Charlotte Walker

The Serbian artist Damir Todorović wants to confront his past, hooked up to a lie detector. Did certain things really happen, or are they just the product of his imagination?

In January 1993 Damir Todorović was sent as a soldier to the war in Bosnia. Is it possible to figure out what really happened there by using a polygraph? The lie detector measures Damir's reactions to the questions he is asked by Vladimir Aleksic, relating to the diary Damir wrote during the war.

As It Is examines the categories of true and false as important social issues, especially in European transition countries facing identity crises. It is about acting in everyday life, truth and fiction, authenticity and totalitarianism.

It is a performance that provokes the questions: Can we live without lies? If so, is this desirable?

In English

2012, 60 min

Concept: Damir Todorović
Dramaturgy: Marija Karaklajić

Costumes: Dragana Kunjadić for Costume National
Cast: Vladimir Aleksic & Damir Todorović
Production: Belluard Bollwerk International Thanks: to a contribution of the Canton of Fribourg to culture
With the support of: Pour-cent culturel Migros & Fonds Culturel Sud.

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