Actor and drama champion Livio Badurina is returning to the Festival as a videographer and photographer with the exhibition Diary of an Actor – Rehearsal Room / Space Of Appearance And Disappearance, which opens today, 1 August at 9 p.m. in the Public Library Grad. Entrance is free.

In addition to acting, Livio Badurina’s creative interests also include other media, namely dance, film and the visual arts, thus he brings to the  73^rd Festival a series of multimedia works called Rehearsal Room / Space Of Appearance And Disappearance, which record the moments of theatre creation – the ones invisible to the audiences’ eye. Diary of an Actor evokes the liminal spaces of socialization, between theatres and galleries, in its premises thematising the places in which we exist, disappear or are yet to be. Different phases of the creative process unfurl, captured by low-fi technology (phone camera and digital camera), and filtered through the eye of a somewhat ironic participant and observer of the theatre process. The space of theatre creation is personal, unstable, like the lens of the camera: it the space of appearance, but of disappearance as well, always on a path to absence, somehow beyond us. By placing the exhibition in the display window of the Public Library Grad, in one of the busiest Dubrovnik streets, Od Puča Street, the work call forth the chance passer-by to extract themselves from the crowd, to enter the spaces of rehearsals and for a moment feels the intimacy and magic of theatrical ephemera..

Livio Badurina is a champion of the Drama of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and besides acting, the area of ​​his artistic interest includes other media: dance, film and visual arts. As part of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, he already exhibited his works in 2009, when his camera captured everyday Dubrovnik moments, visual stories of its people and actors, also in a sort of 'diary' - the project Dolce Vita/showreel/diary of an actor.