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