Aggressive Theatre is an association for contemporary arts. It was founded by Andrej Grilc and Glorjana Veber in the year 2007 with sixteen other members of the collective. The association is based in Ljubljana but the authors perform their work througout the country and abroad. Socially sensitive group of artists question the social and cultural aspects of modern society. Their work is not aimed against the classical representations of art, it is aimed at upgrading the existing art spaces and trying to work in the field of non-institutionalised sphere.
The word agressive, deriving from Latin word ag-gredior, stands for getting close, to act, to attack. The members of the association understand the word attack in its positive meaning, especially when they deal with the implementation of somewhat unusual pratices in the field of art. Driven by an artistic need to change the society they try to implement their action in different fields of art: visual arts (theatre, street theatre, performance), visual communications (installations, works of fine arts) and literature (poetry, prose, dramatic pieces, literary evenging, competition, ex tempore).
The recent work by Agressive Theatre include Competition for Young Poetry, the international project Goli Otok and the Mobile Mosque / مسجد المحمول, an instalation of all-in-one portable islamic suitcase containing all necessary items for constatnly migrating Muslims. Among the works that caused most media attention, was the intervention Acute Art in an »empty« public gallery space Mala Galerija (Small Gallery, Moderna galerija Ljubljana) in 2009. The »invasion« took place at the exhibition by Viktor Bernik where only empty walls were being exhibited 24 hours a day. The occupation of the exhibition with the installation named Equivalentis questioned the use of public space and the discrimination of the individuality.
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