Almost the Same

In her installation/performance, the
unconventional andinspired performance artist Julia Bardsley explores the
dualisms of nature/culture, wild/tamed, instinctive/rational by means of a
tripartite structure and the culinary triangle (raw/cooked/rotten) concept.
Making allusions to war, violence, fear, and monstrosity, she perceives the
transition from nature to culture as a dialectics rather than a schism. The flawless
parallel useof otherwise simple stage methods takes us on a journey into a
grotesque veristic (and therefore thrilling)universe of a humanly-monstrous
darkness. This brutal experience forms the second part of The Divine Trilogy,
while its third part on apocalypse is planned forrelease in 2009.

Created and performed by: Julia Bardsley; Score and live sound mix: Andrew Poppy;

Organized by: City of Women; In collaboration with: Queer Zagreb, Glej Theatre