Landscape of Desire problematises the materialisation of female desire in patriarchy. How and is it possible to present or perform female desire in contexts that are always limited and shaped by male visions? What does it mean to carry out a desire in speech, and what does it mean physically to carry out in space and time? Dimitrije Kokanov and Igor Koruga continue to develop choreographic-dramaturgical cooperation in the field of researching the performing relationship text-body within the representational practices of acting art (previous project How to explain the body to a man, 2021). Collaborators on this project are actresses Marta Bjelica and Jelena Ilić. An integral part of the critical reflection of "desire" in this performance is the circumstance that the authors of the project both identify as men. The idea that the inert male gaze, language, and supremacy are consciously criticized in the hope of being rejected, was especially methodologically explored during the creative process and work through the establishment of negotiation positions between the author and female collaborators. The negotiation of the meaning of the individual elements of the play between the four artists resulted in a conscious departure from the usual principles of narrative construction and arrangement of elements in traditional dramaturgical frameworks. The freedom of choice to move away from telling the story in the traditional way, and to move away from the classical way of observing the performance - were just some of the training grounds for reducing the "male gaze" and self-satisfied erotic totalitarianism.
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"Darling, I'll show you hysteria! I will show you an out of control, crazy, perverted, over the top, sensitive, premenstrual, irrational woman who has resolutely rejected control, because no one controls my body! I control my desire and consciously indulge in pleasures."

paraphrase of Karen Finley's "It's My Body" from the album From a Certain Level of Denial

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