Memoria

I used the visionary paintings by Marko Jakše as source to write a letter to the viewer from the future about where we are coming from. I brought the paintings to my father, a visual communication analyst, so he would read them to me. I recorded his ruminations on beauty, love, image, life, death, the sacred and creation, which knows no end. The material generated by Marko’s artworks, my father’s readings of the visual material, and my own performative archive, based on the practices of dreaming, intertwine as threads, weaving the performance together. I dedicate MEMORIA to You, Dad.

—Mala Kline on MEMORIA (2023)

MEMORIA is a performance about memory and its loss, as well as an exploration of time, for only those who perceive time, can remember. It is an exploration of imagination, for memory is impossible without it, memory being time and experience arrested in image. It is a plunge into the visionary consciousness, and a reaffirmation of experiencing, from which we arise and into which we return.

Production contact: malakline@gmail.com

Concept, Choreography, Text and Performance: Mala Kline
Stage Design, Lighting Design, Costume Design and Photography: Petra Veber
Music and Sound Composition: Kristijan Krajnčan
Video, Video Synchronization and Mapping: Hana Vodeb
Text read by: Robert M. Hayden
Text translated by: Katja Kosi
Production Design: Gašper Puntar
Technical Manager: Hotimir Knific
Executive Producer: Ajda Kline
Production: ELIAS 2069 and Mercedes Klein
Co-production: Pan-Adria