GVR babaLAN Institute
Background
Together with the theatre director Bojan Jablanovec and the architect Aljoša Kolenc, Vlado Repnik set the ground for his later theatre research oriented projects in the project THEATRE (GLEDALIŠČE), which in 1988 produced the performance Helios, based on Bertolt Brecht's Galileo Galilei, with the students of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT). Repnik's subsequent theatre production is marked by continual conceptual shifts, while the projects move along the edges of the visual arts and theatre. In 1990, Repnik created the acclaimed performance Brigades of Beauty [Brigade lepote], which premièred at Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre and featured the acclaimed Slovene painter Jože Tisnikar, who performed an autopsy within the performance, thus functioning as the token for the 'intrusion of the real', which later prompte Repnik to call his theatre GVR (Gledališče vdor realnega; in English Theatre the Intrusion of the Real), and Gertrude Stein (1994), shown at the Pula Festival, Croatia, at the Prague Quadrennial, and directed the performance I tempi passati (1999) at the Mladinsko Theatre, etc.
Overview
); Lighty Tiny Bird on Tiny Branch, 1996; Apolonija (Grenze am Fluss, Bad Radkesburg, Austria) 1998; I tempi passati, 1999; To Bee or Not to Bee, 2000; Human Rights, 2001 (Cassandra - staged in Madrid, Lisabon, Rome); Gfest, 2002; Back Unit, a fairy tale 2002-2004; The Minotaure Song, 2004; net project, 2004; and the intermedia project Mary, Piss on Takashi Please! in collaboration with Klančnik and Štromajer of Intima Virtual Base, staged in March 2005 at Museum of Modern Art. In 2006 the Theatre Protocol installation was exhibited in the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana and the All about Lessoto project presented at KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor.
The name GVR is not translatable but is expressed by the group as a multitude of linguistic associations in a variety of languages, for example G = Gorgonsole = Gallery = Gotvan = Gledališče (Theatre) = Grizli = Gloksinia = G-spot, V = Virtual = Vade (mecum) = Vdor Intrusion = Vegetarian = Velarius = Vulva = Vaquero, R = Real...