IKARUS, painting, mosaic

series of paintings, 2020

Painting: ink, tempera, cardboard, 140x75

Mosaic: glues, cardboard, 255 + 140, inspiration: Maria Uhden: Himmel, 1918

Searching for the intersection and blending of the physical body and

the abstraction is my most important topic during this semester.

Here I am dealing with this topic in the form of paintings. 

MORNING, EVENING, video

lenght: 20:34

Brno, Czech republic, 2020

music: La Monte Young + Marian Zazeela: The Theatre Of Eternal Music 

The work is a combination of two videos of a documentary nature of my quite common morning and evening routine. But the video does not follow me as an object, but the room with very slowly changing shadows on the walls. This visual is accompanied by the drone music of La Monte Young and a sound recording of my common housework (cleaning the room, washing dishes, etc.), independent of the video visual. This piece is then supplemented by subtitles, which create a kind of poetic commentary. It  tells about some kind of personal dives between falling asleep and waking up. The world that is present every night and yet forgotten every day. Abstraction meeting the concreteness of everyday life together with the music of La Monte Young creates a hypnotic atmosphere in which something from this mysterious world, described in the works of C.G. Young might pop out. 

link to video:
https://vimeo.com/431020278?fbclid=IwAR3FCFcwThdGniz02c2k6wq9QgOaJhBNJTW0-XwhMx8HhcQnydZaYvKthRA

DER HIMMEL, video

lenght: 2:32

Brno, Telč,Czech republic, 2020

music: Hanns Zimmer: God Yu Tekkem

Video works with the phenomenon of selfie. Two simultaneous videos zoom my face

in two different moments, but both thematically devoted to heaven, deification, whether

it is capturing a moment of inner ecstasy (left video) or creating an external visual

environment (left video).

IF YOU RESCUE ME, performclip

lenght: 2:42

Brno, Czech republic, 2020

music: Jean-Michel Bernard: If You Rescue Me

Assignment: prof. Pr. Kwiek

This video was made in prof. Kwiek assignment to create a performclip. I chose the topic 

with which I am working all this semester: the discovery of faith, believing. Performclip react on my recent intensive experience of state of different consciousness, which I can  compare with shamanic descent into different worlds. These experiences are usually so  transformative, that it influence the man for his whole life. How can this ancient ritual work if  it absolutely lost it's context? How man can place this experience to his usual life? How  instant, thus intensive has to be the experience, to get a place in the accelerated rhythm of our life- style?  Are three minutes enough?

HEAD AGAINST THE WALL, performance, exhibition

Gallery Stěna, Liberec, Czech Republic, 2019  
Cooperation: Barbora Kašubová 
Music: Nick Cave: Push the Sky Away

White exhibition wall in interpretation students of Performance Art atelier FFA in Brno Barbora Kašubová and Hana Magdoňová will transform into the mental wall. Mental states and inner struggles will get a physical dimension. Representative function of the wall will be exchanged  for action function. Instead of being beem for artistic work, the wall will became an artefact itself, which gets attention and brought energy. But what´s the point anyway to perform the wall? Stubbornness softens the absurdity of action. Vanity over vanity. 

N/UM TCHA, performance

Malinovského square, Brno, Czech Republic, 2019 
Cooperation: Jakub Cír, Michael S. Blaško, Kristýna Kmentová, Jana Vondrů 
Technical support: Jakub Wagner Photo: Roman A. Muselík 

Third of the projects from the Serie The Little Night Performances 

N/um tcha is traditional healing ceremony of bushman tribe !Kung, which usually takes a place once a week and goes on all night long. The whole tribe meets, the women are sitting in the middle and clap, the men are walking around and stomp. Shaman/Medicine man is getting to deep trans because of the rhythm and healing the residences with his touch and voice. With the group of dancers and singers we created a free adaptation of this traditional bushman ritual and put it at the square in Brno. So we created a platform for common meeting of friends and even random passersby for a purpose of healing ritual. The project was inspired by exhibition Shaman´s rehearsal of Małgorzata Szandała (PL) in Gallery G99 in Brno. 

KALI performance

Sokol gym in Karlin, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019
Part of Festival of Naked Forms, 2019, the topic of year: Pain

For 30 minutes I was hanging on to the rings in the gym. This physical deprivation made me so busy that I was not able of "normal" thinking.  I was forced to concentrate fully on my physical activity. At the same time, my body was in tense and twitch as it was looking for little relief. To be sure that even that even in my face would not appear any  "faked", "untrue", I concentrated my gaze on the void in front of me and tried to keep my tongue hanging freely from my mouth. The atmosphere of the event itself was further complemented by the site-specific of the gym itslelf.  The niche with the rings made almost impression of an altar, and audiences heard an audio record of aerobic training pushing to maximum excercie mixed with the Indian mantra, a prayer to Kali for calming the spirit. Throughout the performance, the assistant served to audience a shot of schnnaps in which was dropped a pin.  After they drunk the schnapps, she jabed the pn into their left heel - an acupuncture point of spiritual power (Achilles' heel) - and tried to knock the viewer to the ground. Interesting was also the conclusion of the performance. After I dropped myself from the circles to the ground, I was so physically exhausted that I just respired, completely appalled and out of the "normal" state of mind. Feeling in the body could be compared to orgasm ecstasy bliss.  I was unable to move for a few minutes. It was interesting for me to have an experience during performance working withthe  tension: the constant effort to relax and keep myself in maximum strain at the same time.