Pro profesionály: Umělecký
a kariérní rozvoj

Hungarian artist Dávid Somló makes do with little. He collects twigs in the forest himself, then simply lets viewers balance them on the smallest point of their finger knuckles. Holding fragile nature in balance, all shrinks to one point in time and space. It’s an economical gesture – unsustainable in its instability, yet profoundly sustainable. The participatory performance Delicate Balancing of Twigs emerged as a work in progress within the Green Streets of Europe project, where artists develop methods for more sustainable performance art. Both ethos and aesthetics lie in restraint and modesty.

A fabric dances in the air. Your body mimics. Your chest expands, your gaze lifts, your breath deepens, your spine straightens, you feel pulled toward something greater than yourself. It’s beautiful, yet a technology of persuasion that bypasses critical thought and plant political affects directly into our bodies. In their performance AeReA (2019), which recently unsettled audiences at the KoresponDance festival, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi (IT/DE) strips flags of their national insignia to reveal their “plastic essence”. However, this raises questions: if the performance reveals the mechanisms of political spectacle, does it simultaneously reproduce them?

V rozhovoru o projektu Vigil Custody se Zden Brungot Svíteková (SK/CZ) z Ostružiny a Napsugár Trömböczky (HU) z výzkumné skupiny SVUNG vydávají do mnohovrstevnatého terénu úvah o materiální inteligenci těl – kamenných i lidských, o jejich tajuplně důvěrném příbuzenství, o metodách, setkáních s vědci a jazyce umění a vědy, který nás zcitlivuje vůči prostředí.