Jadran Resort // TRIGGER 2026

𝐉𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭
novel in landscape / Natalija Vujošević, Tara Langford, Neja Tomšič
IN ENGLISH
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𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
An unusual gathering of an unborn service worker, a cruise ship baptised by Margaret Thatcher, Mr Satoshi, and a guest trapped in an infinite introspective abyss.

How does history flow through our fears, and how have we learned to dance through these currents? How does the present reveal the paths to our destinations, and will the conductor wake us up when we arrive? How many “worlds” do we hold within ourselves, what are the locked places in which we meet, and why do we never venture there? Explorations and daydreams towards a single destination, an evolving territory, and a vanishing history— the walk-in novel Jadran Resort.

Jadran Resort explores the transformation of territories and societies whose future is shaped by the investment risks of international developers and the subordination to the needs of temporary tourists. Its symptoms are temporary forms of residence (for example in ready-made places such as Portopiccolo near Sistiana), wellness resorts and citizenship as an investment. Crypto-millionaires and cruise ships (e.g. MS Satoshi) also find shelter in Montenegrin ports to continue their journey to illegal shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh.

The novel in landscape is an attempt to move between various experiences in a collection of moments that deactivate the elaborate myth of reciprocity.

Jadran Resort explores a walk through this landscape, in the form of a ‘novel in landscape,’ situated amidst the images associated with the idea of the Mediterranean experience. Elastically connected to the context of contemporary Montenegro, Jadran Resort amplifies our complicit and implicit positions within these processes.

On a changing coastline and seascape, narratives are overlapping, imprinting, and dividing, all in an asymmetrical composition.

𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬
Authors: Natalija Vujošević, Neja Tomšič, Tara Langford
Contributors: Uroš Prah
Technical solutions: Igor Vuk
Technical director: Grega Mohorčič
Technical Support: Brina Ivanetič, Žan Rantaša, Samo Dernovšek
Sound design assistance: Gašper Torkar
Seamstress:
Carpenters: Martin Lovšin
Choir: Leeds Youth Singers, led by Diane Paterson and Emma Sargison, recorded by Matt Boyle
Recorded at Music House, Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K.
Video documentation: Borut Bučinel
Photo documentation: Marijo Zupanov
Creative and executive production: Barbara Poček
Production: Glej Theatre
Support: Ministry of culture, Municipality of Ljubljana
Support: ISU institute