OP.1: HOMO FABER
cross-disciplinary opera
Photo gallery
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Grega Tanacek
Press
... a multi-layered, artistically compelling but anything but a light work... (Večer)
... loaded with multiple synonyms, anthropological, psychological, sociological, and even philosophical questioning of utilitarian production and its various aspects, concepts, and contexts. And also about workers' resistance, sabotage, and destruction of tools and machines (it is no coincidence that the English term Luddite is derived from the Latin ludus), which replaced direct manual labor in the industrial age. Now robotics is displacing it even more, and artificial intelligence is encroaching on the sphere of mental (including artistic) creativity and freedom, giving added urgency to fears of dehumanization ... (Večer)
... From music, or better, staged music projects by Karmina Šilec we can expect a lot, but certainly not conventionality. In terms of innovativeness and unconventionality, as well as artistic conviction, the transdisciplinary opera Op. 1: homo faber - in front of an auditorium filled to the last seat - met these expectations ... (Večer)