V dialogu s umělci*umělkyněmi z pohybového umění a souvisejících oborů reflektujeme materiál v naší dynamicky se rozvíjející profesi. Snažíme se porozumět tématům a fenoménům, které ovlivňují uvažování umělců a jejich uměleckou tvorbu. Díky partnerstvím napříč zeměmi vzniká prostor pro výměnu pohledů a obohacování kolektivních znalostí našeho oboru.
How do we care for each other in these times of pandemic isolations? When borders and social distancing lock us into our own bodies – forced to be detached in small bordered units, prohibiting us from meeting the other. Hapticality is denied by the only contact we have through screens. We need to touch, to feel the other – and through the other.
Pandemic commons brought Václav Janoščík to share his book Sleeplessness online on Monoskop. He is a theorist, curator and Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts based in Prague. Here you find a short excerpt from his philosophical diary – and if you follow the link, you can read the whole precious book.
We are facing death, but we are also pregnant, and this is a kind of lying-in. Excerpt from the New moon on 23 March,2020 on online platform Artforum by Ariana Reines a poet based in Cambridge, Massachusetts author of A Sand Book.
We live in an interconnected world, where borders are porous, more like living membranes than physical walls. Excerpt from the text by professor of philosophy Michael Marder published in New York Times on March 3rd, 2020.
I was not scared of dying. I was scared of dying alone. An excerpt from the text of philosoph, curatot and trans activist Paul B. Preciado author of the book Testo Junky and newly released book Appartement on Uranus.
