DAYS OF PERFORMANCE IN LVIV. SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE. FNAF.

The main locations of the festival are from 10 to 14 June 2025: Dzyga Art Centre, Space Istoriya.

June 10 Tuesday 

17:00 – 18:00  Dzyga Art Center, 35 Virmenska St.

17:00  Festival opening and Performance Lenka Klodová (CZ)

17:30  Performance  Zirka Savka (UA)

18:00  Informal meeting with participants

June 11 Wednesday 

16:00 – 20:00 Dzyga Art Center, 35 Virmenska St.

16:00 – 18:00     Artists talks Kača Olivová (CZ), Lucia Bricco (IT)

18:00   Performance Lucia Bricco (IT)

18:30   Performance  Martin Zet (CZ)

19:00   Performance  Natalia Lisova (UA)

19:30   Performance  Andriy Helytovych (UA)

This year’s workshops will be conducted by two experienced artists — Tomasz SZRAMA (Poland/Finland) and Lenka KLODOVÁ (Czech Republic).

Tomasz SZRAMA presents himself as a performance artist for whom the very moment of creation is essential. For the past 30 years he has been performing in institutional contexts and venues, as well as in unique places such as streets and markets, an aeroplane deck, a ferry boat, a Mexican desert or a yurt on the Mongolian steppe, often in conditions that are far from ideal.

Now he wants to share his experiences, which have reinforced his belief that performance art is a perfect art form, and that the best way to learn it is by actively experimenting live, in the face of the eternal potential for personal failure, as well as watching others do so.

In Szrama’s workshop participants have the chance to practice the implementation of the concept of performance/action art set in a specific context (time, space, given conditions and constraints), as well as looking at and discussing different possible approaches to this exciting discipline. Szrama aims to provide participants with a platform to explore the possibilities of creating in front of an audience, to learn the relevant tools and to find their own vocabulary, methods, strategies. Although the course will focus primarily on ‘HOW TO DO / HOW TO BE’ with an emphasis on working under pressure, quick decision-making and compromise, there can be a lot of fun in it too.

Lenka KLODOVÁ is an artist, researcher, professor, curator and head of the Body Design Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. Her art is at the intersection of corporeality, feminism, sexuality, and politics. Lenka KLODOVÁ works in various fields: from sculpture to body art, from installations to theoretical research. She heads the Festival of Naked Forms, an experimental platform that explores nudity in performance as a gesture of presence and resistance. In her workshops, Lenka explores the body as an instrument of creativity, vulnerability and political expression.

Lenka KLODOVÁ: ‘Performance can act as a mirror, a hiding place, a repository in which we can deposit our egos, our problems, traumas, emotions, and in turn we can retrieve them in different ways. It is open to anyone who wants to explore performance art, primarily in terms of how doing performance can be helpful in the human situation.
During the workshop, we will explore the archive of the Festival of Naked Forms (FNAF), which will serve as a source of inspiration and analysis. We will then develop a series of collective experiments on the theme of performance and adaptation based on our discussions together. During the workshop, we will also work towards a final performative outcome, which may be a series of individual performances or a collaborative work.’

The School of Performance will take place from June 12 to 14 at the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

The maximum number of participants in a group is 10.

The workshops will culminate in a performance on June 14.

“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”.

The festival will start on June 18 at 18:00 with the opening of a travelling exhibition of documentation for the 10th anniversary of the FNAF performance festival in the gallery of Art Center “Dzyga”. For five days, experienced and young artists from the Czech Republic – Antonín BRINDA, Sara WOLLASCH, Matyáš DYNKA, Michal DURDA, Lenka KLODOVÁ, Adam MICHÁLEK, Karolína RAIMUND and from Ukraine — Andriy HELYTOVYCH, Natalia LISOVA, Illia TURYHIN, Khrystyna SILIVON, Olga CHYHRYK, Yuriy SHTAIDA will create performances in the space of “Dzyga” and the Theatre Centre “Word and Voice”. All shows are free for viewing.

“School of Performance” will take place at the Lviv National Academy of Arts in the Contemporary Art Practices Department. Workshops will be led by professional Czech performers Lenka KLODOVÁ, Antonin BRINDA, Adam MICHÁLEK. The workshops will be concluded by the performances on June 22 at Dzyga Gallery.

“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?”

Curators: Lenka Klodova from the Czech Republic and Yaryna Shumska from Ukraine. Coordinators: Lida Savchenko-Duda, Vlodko Kaufman.

This event is part of the “Travelling FNAF” project, which celebrates ten years of FNAF (Festival of Nude Forms) and is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology.

Organizers and partners in Lviv: Department of Contemporary Art Practices of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Institute of Cultural Strategy, Art Center “Dzyga”, Theater Center “Word and Voice”.

21.12.2020.

For the last few months, we have been full of uncertainty and questions, sometimes even blocked by them. The appearance of freedom is present but its visibility is limited by instructions and forced isolation, which requires adaptation to contactless. We are surrounded by a transparent barrier, and we are separated by it. Sometimes it almost disappears, then it regains its expression. There is an obstacle, we feel it, we notice it, but we cannot touch it.
By exploring the areas that have not seemed to be full enough of life or presence, such as virtuality, the Internet, video and streamings, we are looking for the ways to feel the micro-contact with a viewer and the energy created in the process of immersion into the performance. The lack of a direct contact in the performance art in the online time has opened a door to new ways of how performance pieces emerge and how they are perceived. This is an attempt to overcome the distance. It is not just about a physical distance, boundaries and kilometers, but immersion in ourselves. It is about overcoming the distance between place and space around. When and in what form does the action, the process, the performance take place? How does the author communicate with the world? Does this interaction occur when the author is a spectator, being with himself, creating an action, or when the audience concentrates behind the screens in the length of live broadcasts? Continue reading “PERFORMANCE symposium 2020” →

August 31 – September 03, 10:00-14:00,
the Program I− AM− HERE− by Kineret Haya Max in frame of the School of Performance 2019.

I-
AM-
HERE-

Each of the essence − I, Am, Here is a container of circumstances. The inherent electricity of performance art has a lot to do with the constantly changing reality. I ask «what is now?» and that is what mobilizes me.

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September 02 – September 06, 10:00-14:00,
the Program FROM ACTION TO INSTALLATION AND BACK by Anja Ibsch in frame of the School of Performance 2019.

Investigation of installative aspects in performative actions

We start with a simple installation.

We continue with an action in this installation.

We will use the output and the relics as a basis for new actions.

We will examine the installation.

Is the final installation mirroring the actions that took place in it?

Does it need more actions, or can we agree to stop at that point?

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September 01 – September 05, 10:00-14:00,
the Program SPACE − TIME − CULTURAL CONTEXT by Janusz Bałdyga in frame of the School of Performance 2019.

SPACE – TIME – CULTURAL CONTEXT

The master class addresses the issue of space, place and presence in the context of a cultural myth that originates from a tradition of modern times or family history, that is, it can cover the entire cultural spectrum or be limited to the scope of private narrative.

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The festival was characterized by various elements which we combined, bringing about significant professional fulfillment, accompanied by consolidating human and interpersonal experiences.

In conversations I had with festival audience and participants, students and artists, they all expressed great appreciation of the professionalism, which was reflected in their active participation and excitement for the connection with students, artists, and teachers. Continue reading “LIOR KARIEL. DAYS OF PERFORMANCE ART IN LVIV [2018]” →

SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE.  DAYS OF PERFORMANCE ART IN LVIV.

! Attention: the locations of performances may be determined spontaneously.
Specify the information on the FB-event SCHOOL Of Performance 2018.
The program of performances will begin at 18:00 in front of Dzyga: 35, Virmens’ka St.

01 09 2018   s a t u r d a y

10:00 – 14:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE

1st group [arkhystratyh guest house: 20a, vynnychenka st]
: program  IN THE SOUND WORK. Bartolomé Ferrando. es

02 09 2018    s u n d a y

10:00 – 14:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE

1st group [arkhystratyh guest house: 20a, vynnychenka st]
: program  IN THE SOUND WORK. Bartolomé Ferrando. es

2st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  STATIC PERFOMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS. Janusz Baldyga. pl

3st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  LABORATORY OF THE BODY. Martine Viale. fr

16:00 – 17:00  LECTURE PRESENTATION [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Sigmund Skard. no

18:00 – 20:00 PERFORMANCES [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Janusz Baldyga. pl
Anton Saienko. ua

03 08 2018     m o n d a y

10:00 – 14:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE

1st group [arkhystratyh guest house: 20a, vynnychenka st]
: program  IN THE SOUND WORK. Bartolomé Ferrando. es

2st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  STATIC PERFOMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS. Janusz Baldyga. pl

3st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  LABORATORY OF THE BODY. Martine Viale. fr

16:00 – 17:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
: performance lecture DESCENSION. Volodymyr Kaufman. ua

18:00 – 20:00 PERFORMANCES [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Sigmund Skard. no
Natalya Lisova. ua

04 09 2018    t u e s d a y

10:00 – 14:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE

2st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  STATIC PERFOMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS. Janusz Baldyga. pl

3st group [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: program  LABORATORY OF THE BODY. Martine Viale. fr

16:00 – 18:00   SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
: performances of students of  Bartolomé Ferrando. es

18:00 – 20:00 PERFORMANCES [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Pascale Ciapp. fr
Galia Pavlichenko. il

05 09 2018    w e d n e s d a y

14:00 – 15:00  SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE [puppet theatre: 1, danyla halytskoho square]
: performances of students of Janusz Baldyga. pl

16:00 – 18:00  LECTURE PRESENTATION [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Galia Pavlichenko. il  and Lior Kariel. il

8:00 – 20:00 PERFORMANCES [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Bartolomé Ferrando. es
Martine Viale. fr

06 09 2018     t h u r s d a y

14:00 – 15:00 LECTURE PRESENTATION [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Pascale Ciapp. fr

16:00 – 18:00   SCHOOL OF  PERFORMANCE [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
: performances of students of Martine Viale. fr

18:00 – 20:00 PERFORMANCES [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Kostyantyn Zorkin. ua
Lior Kariel. il
Marian Stępak. pl

07 09 2018    f r i d a y

11:00 – 16:00  SHORT TRIP [start: in front of Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]
Kostya Smolyaninov. ua
talk and discuss about the festival  School of performance. Days of performance art in Lviv.

08 09 2018   s at u r d a y
additional conversations [Dzyga: 35, virmens’ka st]

The ninth Days of Performance Art in Lviv took place in September ‒ it wakened artists from all over Ukraine from their summer slumber, brought about a wave of foreign artists, united curious youngsters around performance art, and provided its participants and viewers with experiences worth sharing.

Continue reading “SCHOOL OF THE DAYS: PERFORMERS IN LVIV. 2016” →

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