Jan Rozman
“wetware”
August 5, 2026
20.30 H
HochX Theater und Live Art
25 EUR / 18 EUR reduced
Barrier-free
The guest performance at TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA is supported by the Slovenian Cultural Information Center SKICA Berlin.
Smart devices, algorithms, and digital control systems have long since become embedded in our tissues, organs, and movements. Technology no longer appears as an external tool, but as a total institution within the body.
The surveillance devices we have voluntarily opted for – our smart devices – track our every move, voice, glance and touch. The algorithms that power them have become better at fulfilling our supposed desires than we are. But at the same time, they also fulfil our greatest fears. Technology is a total institution that we carry within us. Psychopolitical reward and control systems are reflected in somatic processes.
Jan Rozman’s performance “wetware” combines stand-up comedy, choreography, and theory into a dark yet humorous self-examination in the age of surveillance capitalism. Navigating between Elon Musk, Byung-Chul Han’s psychopolitical theses, and his own body, Rozman embarks on a journey through the pressure to optimize, exhaustion, and the feeling of never being enough.
With dark humor and choreographic precision, “wetware” portrays the human being as a network of smart devices – always activated, controlled, and trapped in the cycle between ability and obligation.
Jan Rozman (b. 1991) is a freelance performer, choreographer, improviser, and performance artist. He lives and works between Ljubljana and Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores expanded bodies, material semiotics, ruptures, errors, ecology, imagination, (science) fiction, and humor, seeking contemporary performative forms of expression for the post-internet and Anthropocene eras.
He attended the Secondary School of Contemporary Dance in Ljubljana and subsequently completed a degree in choreography at SNDO in Amsterdam, as well as the Solo/Dance/Authorship master’s program at HZT (UdK) Berlin. He is also a trained physical therapist.
His works include, among others, “Fur”, “Feathers”, “Scale”, “Glitch”, “Invitation”, “Bird Dementia”, “The Decision Guillotine”, “Senzasenso”, and “Thinging”. These works have been presented both in Slovenia and internationally, including at the Ukrep Festival, Front@, the Slovenian Dance Platform Nacionala, SPHA, and the Something Raw Festival.
In 2019, Jan Rozman received the Ksenija Hribar Award for promising choreographers, presented by the Slovenian Contemporary Dance Association.
Credits:
Artistic Direction, Choreography & Performance: Jan Rozman
Text: Metod Zupan, Jan Rozman
Dramaturgy: Jaka Smerkolj Simoneti
Video & Lasers: Miha Možina
Costume Design: Andrej Vrhovnik
Set Design: Dan Pikalo
Lighting Design: Aljaž Zaletel
Music: Veronika Černe
Graphic Design: Gregor Kocjančič
Production: Luka T. Zagoričnik
Production (Support): Emanat
Co-production: Cankarjev dom, Pan-Adria
Sponsors: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
“wetware” is the Pan-Adria Network’s selected production for the 2025/26 season.
Network partners: En–Knap Productions, Ljubljana (SI), Slovenian National Theater Nova Gorica (SI), Flota Institute, Murska Sobota (SI), Zagreb Dance Center (HR), Mediterranean Dance Center Svetvinčenat (HR), Croatian Cultural Center Rijeka (HR), Artisti Associati, Gorizia (IT), Vicenza Municipal Theater Foundation (IT)