Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj
Performer: Lina Akif
Sound Performer: Tea Vidmar
Music: Tea Vidmar
Visuals and Costume design: Tijana Todorović
Set design: Barbara Kapelj
Nuri’s voice: Katarina Stegnar
Editing audio tapes and Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Barbara Kapelj
Translation: Tina Malič
Production management: Tina Dobnik
Assistant: Demijan Pintarič
Production: The New Post Office (Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre)
Co-production: City of Women
Martina Piskač (together with Uroš Sede), Nura, Suzana, Tjaša and Linda shared their experiences.
Première: 2. 3. 2023
Sex Education II: Ability
Ability is based on stories of four women about their sexual coming-of-age, their relationship to their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships. What the four women have in common is that they live with a disability and are thus, as Elena Pečarič says in her essay “So beautiful, yet disabled”, faced with double discrimination, as persons with a disability and as women. In Slovenia, the sexuality of people with disabilities is overlooked at a systemic level and sex education is particularly lacking in this area, while social care workers have discretion as to whether they help women with disabilities with sexual practice, as this is not in their job description.
“In such a stifling atmosphere, a woman with disability literally has to fight windmills to express her sexuality, femininity, well-being or satisfaction with her appearance, herself and her body. […] Why is it so difficult to understand and accept that a woman with disability can be happy with herself or her body as it is, to feel good, to feel beautiful, attractive or sexy.” (Elena Pečarič: So beautiful, yet disabled)
Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj
Performer: Lina Akif
Sound Performer: Tea Vidmar
Music: Tea Vidmar
Visuals and Costume design: Tijana Todorović
Set design: Barbara Kapelj
Nuri’s voice: Katarina Stegnar
Editing audio tapes and Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design: Tjaša Črnigoj, Igor Remeta, Manca Vukelič, Barbara Kapelj
Translation: Tina Malič
Production management: Tina Dobnik
Assistant: Demijan Pintarič
Production: The New Post Office (Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre)
Co-production: City of Women
Martina Piskač (together with Uroš Sede), Nura, Suzana, Tjaša and Linda shared their experiences.
Première: 2. 3. 2023
Thanks: Lana Akif, Boštjan Bebar, Sendi Bakotić, Urška Brodar, Tina Dobnik, Jernej Hazimali, Urška Henigman, Interdisciplinary research team About feminist pleasure, Alja Lobnik, Tina Malič, Jaka Sotlar, Tibor Mihelič Syed, Borut Laznik, Borut Opetnik, Gabriele Fuso, Klara Otorepec, Elena Pečarič, The Sisterhood of the Proud Dolphin, Žiga Sedevčič, Katarina Stegnar, SVŠGUGL, Vanda Velagić, Steven De Weirdt
Included are statements by expert-interviewees (Elena Pečarič, Jernej Hazimali and Steven De Weirdt) and excerpts from Elena Pečarič’s essay “So Beautiful, Yet Disabled”, published in the journal Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1/2.
The project is part of a series of lecture-performances in which also Nika Rozman, Sendi Bakotić and Vanda Velagić participate as authors and performers, and Alja Lobnik, PhD Gabrijela Simetinger and PhD Maja Vehar as expert collaborators.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Sex Education II is part of the project Reparative Practices for a New Cultural Ecosystem, developed and implemented with the support of the EU Creative Europe Programme by Kurziv – Platform for Issues of Culture, Media and Society, Stanisław Brzozowski Association/Krytyka Polityczna and Maska Ljubljana.
