MAGDALENA REITER

Choreography, video direction: Magdalena Reiter
Performer and co-created by: Jerca Rožnik Novak, Beno Novak, Davide Lafabiana
Video design: Sandi Skok
Music: August Adrian Braatz
Light design Janko Oven
Photography: Darja Štravs Tisu
Produced by: Zavod Mirabelka
Partners: Bunker, The Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia, Adrian film
Performance is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

The performance forms part of Magdalena Reiter’s body of work with the umbrella title Blow-up, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia throughout the 2024/2025 period.

Untitled is a choreographic installation at the intersection of dance and audiovisual media, set within the architecture of the Old Power Station. The work seeks to trace a state of transit — of being on the edge, beyond the centre. The performers create portraits suspended between presence and absence, between space and body, between the two-dimensional image and its origin.

The installation unfolds as a network of images, bodies, and echoes — a space where reality and its representation overlap and crossfade. A choreography of gaze, disappearance, and displacement emerges, inviting the audience to enter as travellers, witnesses, and observers.

Artistic statemement:
Untitled is conceived as a record of a journey — a work in progress and an installation rather than a traditional performance. Within this idea, I am drawn to what remains unfinished, in transition, on the periphery – and to the inevitable sense of loss that comes with it.
Dance, by its nature, resists closure; it exists only in the moment of passage. Untitled stays close to that condition — to the fragile balance between appearance and disappearance.

The title derives from the language of visual art, where Untitled is not merely an unfinished gesture but a conscious refusal to name or close meaning.

The form of the installation follows this logic: dispersed into fragments that never merge into a single narrative, reflecting a reality that is itself fractured and unstable. Within the installation, physical space expands into image — into a terrain where movement shifts its form.
Through the camera, I explore how perception is constructed and constantly shifting. Each image becomes a temporary reality — caught between the real and the fictive, between seeing and being seen, between time as it unfolds and time as it is remembered.
The camera captures what eludes dance: it offers the illusion that time can be held or returned to. What remains is not presence, but its trace.

Untitled, at this stage, is not conceived as a conclusion but as an open phase within an ongoing process.