“When the body is in a state of anxiety, physical, mental and, in particular, creative processes are blocked. Anxiety, taking over the body, creates fears, numbness, defenselessness in it, the instincts of self-preservation manifest themselves more acutely.
Over the past two years of full-scale active and continuous war, Ukrainian territory has turned from a space delineated by a border and law into a living, vulnerable, breathing organism. It is full of wounds, he suffers every day and at the same time he heals, he longs for healing and justice. This organism is people. People are tired but they are building their lives step by step by action, faith, spirit and body.
We manifest the continuity visually through the body, we create a sign, an impulse, a message with the body. Its presence brings us closer to biological, social, and political spheres.
And what is this body like today? What did it become? How do we feel it from the inside, and how is it seen from the outside?”
"Days of Performance Art. School of Performance" will take place from June 18 to 22. This year, the festival program is based on the experience of the Czech project FNAF (Festival of Naked Forms), which explores the body, corporeality and various forms of their expression through a visual sign. The theme of the five-day meeting of Czech and Ukrainian performers is "Anxiety in the Body".
“School of Performance” will take place at the Lviv National Academy of Arts at the Contemporary Art Practices Department. Workshops will be led by professional Czech performers Lenka KLODOVA, Antonin BRINDA, Adam MICHALEK.
