Op. 1 : HOMO FABER

DVD / 2024

Performing

Boštjan Gombač, multiinstrumentalist​,  voice

Izidor Leitinger, electronics, alto horn, voice

Fantje na vasi​, vocal group

Karmina Šilec, artistic director

 

waver: Marta Gregorc 

shoemaker: Saša Kovačev

stonemason: Alojz Urnaut

clogmaker: Martin Muml

seamstress: Vesna Novitović

music instruments repairman: Andrej Robnik

carpenters: Branko Čelofiga, Ivan Belca

various carftworks: Tone Žuraj, Primož Šušteršič, Marko Perger, Miran Mustafa, Miran Kosi, Darko Trantura, Pavel Brlič

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From the Press

... 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)

... A multi-layered, artistically compelling but anything but 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)

... with music, harmoniously calm mise-en-scene and a play of the light OP.1: homo faber evokes an aesthetic pleasure but on the other side destroys it with occasional crashes and discomfort, stimulated by visuals. Above all, it encourages a multilayered and not necessarily pleasant contemplation of reality in general and of the role of a man and his endeavors in it. ... (Večer)