Screenagers Vol.2 takes the form of a reflexive DIY musical: in a firsthand, first-person approach to songwriting, the performer presents us with an intimate compendium of songs about obscure emotions that she can feel but cannot find a word for in her everyday life.
Her mission is to capture through songs the aches, demons, vibes, joys and urges that roam the wilderness of her psychological interior – an interior that strangely resembles our online media landscape, materialising on stage in the form of haunting QR codes, prophetic chat-bots and deceptive green screens with which the spectators can interact via their smartphones.
Rooted in the fact that songs have traditionally served as repositories of common experience, as a way to bridge generational gaps, Screenagers Vol.2 proposes a collection of highly idiosyncratic folklore music for the digital age: the world where everything collapses into everything else in a chaotic deluge which is part and parcel with online life, asking what has that done to our psyche and our imagination, that we can take it all in and keep scrolling.

Performed by Barbara Matijević

Music: Nenad Kovačić
Technical direction: Viktor Krasnić
Lighting design: Marino Frankola
Lighting technician: Saša Fistrić
Animation: Martina Livović & Giuseppe Chico
Video: Giuseppe Chico
Concept and development of digital application: Pierre-Erick Lefebvre
Programming: Dubravka Špoljarić
Voice coach: Fabijan Komljenović
Executive producer: Silvija Stipanov
Coproduction: Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi, scène conventionnée art et création pour la diversité linguistique
Partners: Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Ganz New Culture of Change, Zagreb Dance Centre, Centar KNAP – Theatre KNAP
With the support of DRAC Ile-de-France, Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb, European mobility program i-Portunus Houses

With the support of TEATROSKOP, a regional program for performing arts initiated by the French Institute and the French Ministry of Culture.

Photos: Demirel Pašalić

Duration: 01:05

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