In praise of acedia

Abstract

The following thoughts are a journey through examples from some of my practices and positions that I inhabit most often as a dramaturge, while looking around my ecosystem that might otherwise be called the local context of Zagreb’s independent performing arts scene. I want to share several tentative claims that stem from my recent efforts in dealing with working conditions in culture, while also trying to derive methods for devised performancemaking from them. I’d like to think of this journey as bearing resemblances with the Babushka-like experience of waking up from a dream to yet another dream.