SE.S.TA Blog

The artists Aneta Fodorová, Martina Dobiášová, Michal Kindernay, Žofie Blechová and Vojtěch Bárta came to the Estate in Žďár nad Sázavou with the multimedia project nov, which is being created in cooperation with the platform Third Space and Chemické divadlo. After the film experiment, nov expands into a performative installation. During the residency, the artists therefore focused on finding tools that will allow them to translate the content of the project into a completely different, performative language. How is the position of the viewer changing today? Why is it crucial to create a safe space? And is it even necessary to define your genre?

Roberta Legros Štěpánková, one of the artists who attended this summer’s ART KLASTRY Residency at the Estate in Žďár nad Sázavou, was keen to talk about her research and working process together with her partner Matthieu Legros. While talking about their work, core materials, points of departure and their collaboration, we were meandering around the question of how to orient and navigate the body and mind in the labyrinth of emptiness.

Extraordinary project Gallery Without Borders hosted a research of eleven dance makers from the Czech Republic and the USA who, together with American choreographer Sue Schroeder, explored the role of the artistic artefact and its kinesthetic potential in the gallery – white cube space. Various movement researches were applied and reflected the display and curatorial ideas of the current exhibition Art of Long Century: 1796–1918 in the National Gallery Prague. The outcome of this long-term quarantine research was presented live in the National Gallery Prague and streamed on 14 July 2020. Here you can follow more on why these eleven movement artists decided to attend this particular project.

We asked dancer and choreographer Silvie Kudelová (CZ) to tell us a bit more about her research, current questions, doubts, and working process during her Cluster Residency in the Castle. Here is what she shares with us.

Marie Kinsky talks with choreographer Mirka Eliášová (CZ), professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, about the usage of specific choreographic tools in her teaching and creations, about improvisation as an opening tool for later choreography, about the influence of William Forsythe’s technique, and her research on these principles in relation to contact improvisation.