Sukeban

The title Sukeban comes from the Japanese name for female delinquents and street gangs, formed as a consequence and a feminist response to the women’s inability to join male street gangs. Sukeban is a fantasy performance that, through the form of an interactive game, experiments with the position of anonymity and control in the online environment. Thematically, it draws inspiration from women’s gangs and women’s online movements which are active in and committed to problematizing the representation of women and woman’s body in the virtual environment. By researching the “incel” phenomenon and similar forms of online sexism, Sukeban, through the aesthetic and narrative interweaving of manga, anime and video games, depicts a fictional world of female superheroes in the fight against discrimination. Sukeban is a fantasy of contemporary female vigilantes that are coming up with their own rules of the game, playing, fighting, avenging and the free space of the female gaze through the communal playfulness.

2024, in Slovenian with English subtitles

The audience can either simply observe the performance or actively and anonymously participate in it – for this, they need a smartphone with a charged battery and internet connectivity and/or data transfer capabilities.

12.10. the performance is followed by The Audience Council (Zbor za publiko).

Author of the concept and screenplay: Varja Hrvatin; Authors: Varja Hrvatin, Ena Kurtalić, Eva Stražar, Urša Čuk, Lea Culetto, Jurij Smrke, Jure Anžiček; performers: Ena Kurtalić in Eva Stražar; Video and space design: Urša Čuk – rastrLAB; Costumography: Lea Culetto; Programmer of the application: Jurij Smrke; Author of the music and technical performance: Jure Anžiček; artistic movement consultant: ena kurtalić; Organisation and production: City of Women; Coproduction: Cankarjev dom; Supported by: Municipality of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture; Sponsors: Svet užitka, Liupka, ŠD Partizan Vič, CROCS SLOVENIJA