Govor med znanostjo in umetnostjo (Speech between Science and Art) is the first monograph in Slovenia that presents spoken language as a subject of artistic inquiry and scientific research. Interdisciplinary speech studies and the practitioners’ reflections on their own speech-based creative acts offer a comprehensive insight into the specifics of artistic speech, blurring the lines between theory and practice. The monograph’s central topic is stage speech in contemporary theatre (including the opera, puppet theatre, improvisational theatre, contemporary dance) and in other media (radio, TV and film). In addition, several articles in the monograph deal with other speech practices (e.g. storytelling) and speech training.
COBISS.SI-ID: 75514625
The monograph deals with heterogeneous forms of the performative and the theatrical in contemporary performing arts, e.g. “new” performance art, the archives as performance, performative reconstruction, body art, puppet and street theatre. It attempts to capture them in view of their continuous dynamics between theoretical concepts and subsequent artistic realizations in representative works by Slovenian authors. While examining their characteristics, the monograph deals with relevant issues concerning their reflection within the so-called new criticism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 76794881
The article investigates acoustic features of stage speech in the first half of the 20th century. It analyses four dramatic monologues performed by two Croatian and two Slovenian leading actresses of the time. A comparative acoustic analysis of abrupt changes in intonation, speech intensity and vowel lengthening shows that the aesthetics of Slovenian and Croatian stage speech of the period did not differ much. This can be explained by the etymological and geographic proximity of the two languages, and by the codified practices of stage speech of the time, as well as by frequent collaborations between Croatian and Slovenian theatre practitioners.
COBISS.SI-ID: 51137122
The monograph is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the composer’s versatile body of work. The studies gathered here present Bojan Adamič as an artist of great creative power, as a pioneer of Slovenian jazz, popular song and film and theatre music in his capacities as a composer, conductor and interpreter of various music genres. They define the significance of his creative output for the development of Slovenian cultural life. A complete bibliography of Adamič’s work is accessible on-line at the website of the National and University Library in Ljubljana.
COBISS.SI-ID: 266254336
The article investigates the impact of the Internet on the structuring of individual and collective memory. Following an in-depth analysis of the interplay between theatre, technology and experience, it introduces a new concept for defining the mode of perception in the age of the Internet. This concept is based on a comparison of Theatre of Memory by the great Renaissance polyhistorian Giulio Camillo, and his visionary prediction of the Internet.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3529563