THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH LA GORDA performance

Brno, Czech Republic, 2019

Semestral project at FAVU´s aula

projection: Woody and Steina Vašulka: Noisefields 1974

"The modern man needs a ritual. Through the ritual, we are working on the most exalted thing in ourselves. It is precisely because we lack the rituals so much that we are drowning in mediocrity ... ... I will express myself exclusively through the unconscious. I let it flow through the stage as freely as dreams unfold. I will ignore the intellect of the audience. I will not make the definitions of symbols available, I will simply use them in all their infinite complexity and I will let everyone interpret them on their own." Alejandro Jodorowsky

For my semsetral project I created performance in the platform of ritual. Spiritual transformative ceremony. I used general shamanistic methods and transform them to components of the 21st century, West world. Those component are closer to communicate with audience than to try the ancient native methods. But the effect should work the same. Remove the usual, rational way of thinking and percive the experience instead.

NOTHING COVERED BY SKIN performance, exhibition

Brno, Czech republic, 2018
opening 06/12/18, SUTEREN GALLERY

colective exhibition with artistic group Gravidity: Lucie Jestřabíková, Zuzana Štefková, Hana Magdoňová,
Michael Franče, Michaela Čížková

Underground - Suteren - Sub terrein in French - under the surface - inspires to open Pandora´s Box
to our Sub consciousness. Emotions and feelings covered deep inside of us is not easy pronounce
by words. They leak through the ragged cellar space, from its representative parts to darkest corners.
Explicitly but not descriptively we try to bring it to the surface. These themes with transform to the
intersection body-clothes-environment. Against the usual principle the gradual concealment of our
subconscious by the individual layers are used as an option explicit expression. Despite human body,
sculpture, photography, performance, clothes, leather, coats up after the particular environment of the
cellar space. Just like make up, we can cover up our true identity, but it can be also a way of expression
of our inner world.

Hana Magdoňová: Nothing covered by the skin

HOW TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO A DEAD HARE performance

Prague, Czech Republic, 2018

performance: 14-16/11/18

"Zajíček v své jamce sedí sám, sedí sám. Ubožáčku, co je ti, že nemůžeš skákati? Chutě skoč, chutě skoč, a vyskoč!"

Performance "How to Explain the World to a Dead Hare" was created as part of the 2018 Prague Rooms exhibition (Exhibition of Czech Art Universities). Instead of presenting our work, cabinet of Performance decided to fill the time-space with the presence of performers themselves. Every concrete action transforms the space. Efforts to communicate with the living and the not-living. The inspiration for us is Joseph Beuys' work.

My performance was an interpretation of his performance "How to Explain the Image to a Dead Hare".Thirty-hour meditation during three days took place together with the audience. Nonverbally, just in the meditative state of mind i tried to communicate with audience (1 or 2 person) and explain questions which Beuys put in his work: Who is a Dead Hare? Why is a Hare dead? How to reanimate him?

ALBERTOV STAIR instalation

Prague, Czech Republic, 2018

Rendering the shade of the stair railing. Will it be more visible now? Does someone notice a strange shadow? Maybe it will stay invisible during the night and during the day it transform to a strange mixture of lines...

TOTEM PATH instalation

Beskydy Mountain, Czech Republic, 2018

Totem has always been seen as a stable, solid pillar, the center around which is accumulated the energy and prayers and through which is possible to connect with other realities. How can this stability be understood in today's fluid time, when does everything keep the mind away from the body? The Bittersweet taste of mysticism put on fallen logs, passed without notice. And then at the end of the way - colours and brush... DIY shamanism today.

RE-PRESENTATION performance

Prague City Gallery, Czech Republic, 2018

The RE-PRESENTATION was held as part of a collective performance within the Tomáš Ruller's Flash of Sustainable exhibition. It deals with the issue of our identity. Are we really ourselves? Or is that just a picture curved by the image of ourselves? What makes us move? Symbolic casting of the body and its shadow.

BAUBO performance

GASK Gallery, Kutná hora, Czech Republic, 2018

The performance Baubo happened in September 2018 as part of the collective performance Theatrum Mundi at the GASK Gallery in Kutná Hora. It is an interpretation of the Greek Goddess of the belly of Baubo. She does not have a head, her eyes are instead of her breasts and her mouth instead of a sheath. She communicates with other people or gods through her body, which use to be coarse and dirty. Even during this performance, the communication worked through the body. It was simple, provocative and challenging dialog. After that was interesting to confront the audience and the performer face to face.