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Moving alone on stage with a laptop, Barbara Matijević shapes her body as a seamless extension of the two-dimensional world of videos, made by anonymous users of YouTube. In Forecasting Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijević establish a space-time suspended between two parallel systems of perception: that of physical reality and that of the screen. An intriguing and humorous dialogue, challenging the way in which technology affects our senses, our relationship with objects, movement and our understanding of presence. The work of Chico and Matijević explores what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life that is being so profoundly transformed by the “new tools of the mind” such as the Internet. In Forecasting, they point to the ever-increasing influence of digital tools in the construction of the Self and the collective imaginary. The piece received the Special Jury Prize at the 56th MESS Theater International Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2016.
Barbara Matijević
Barbara Matijević was born in Nasice, Croatia in 1978. She studied literature at Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, and dance at the Hypaxis Dance Centre (N.H./U.S.A.) and the International Centre for Contemporary Dance and Performance Art – ATHENA, Greece, under the artistic direction of Kilina Cremona in Zagreb. Matijević has worked with Bojan Jablanovec, Bruno Marin, David Hernandez, TRAFIK, and Joris Lacoste. She also collaborated with Boris Charmatz in the project Bocal. She taught dance at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Osijek, Croatia. She has been collaborating with Giuseppe Chico since 2008. Matijević lives in Zagreb, Croatia.
Giuseppe Chico
Giuseppe Chico was born in Bari, Italy, in 1974. He studied ancient languages and started working in theatre at an early age with the Abeliano Company under the direction of Tina Tempesta and later with Kismet Theatre, under Robert McNeer. He also worked as a set designer for Paolo Baroni. After studying theatre in Rome and Milan, he moved to Paris in 2000 and began to train in contemporary dance with Joao Fiadeiro, Vera Montero, Julyen Hamilton, Mark Tompkins, Vera Orlock, Pooh Kaye, K. J. Holmes, Olivier Besson. He was a performer for several years for the company Mille Plateaux Associés. He has also worked with George Appaix and Joris Lacoste. Chico lives in Paris, France.