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/span>In All Its Glory
Performative Installation
This work explores intimacy and togetherness between strangers to question our social constructs. It raises the question of how we relate to people and environments that we label “other” at this time when attention to identity and awareness of self is emerging globally. What is otherness in the context of race, gender, queerness, heterotopic spaces and hetero-normative behaviour? How does otherness fade with the universality of songs, our senses, our imagination and our embodied perception - all that is visceral and human.
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/span>Cartography of the Disappeared Cosmos
Participatory installation to tune the senses of touch, sound and very limited sight
A mapping practice where we reflect on what the idea of ‘disappeared’ means as a bodily experience. Each
cartographer enters the cosmos wearing the Chromoculars - an ocular tool that allows one to sense only
light and colour, while shapes and forms disappear. Simultaneously, the hands engage with tactile ropes
for guiding, orienting, floating, walking, dancing, or resting.
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/span>The Forest Indoors
Moss Carpets for Feet
This carpet invites visitors for a tactile experience with their feet. You are welcome to bring your
book,
computer, work, companions, or hobbies with you; sit around the table without shoes on, and stay with
your
feet on the carpet for as long as you wish. Or, you can also simply focus on your toes, heels, and soles
and sensations beneath.
Methods
/span>Body, Space, Sensing
Phenomenology workshop for performers
Using the MoreThanThat framework, this is an immersive workshop for performance artists on
phenomenology.
Divided into five captivating acts, it is designed to unlock the transformative power of sensory
exploration. Participants engage with artistic discovery through themes of bodily memory and bodily
perception. Each act opens new potentials of sensory engagement beyond sight through expanded
imagination,
somatic practice, tactile Chinese whispers and guided meditation and movement.
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/span>Ticklish Fruits
A synesthetic, multi-media artwork
At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a painting of fruit holds a secret: tickle the pear, it
giggles and becomes a door. Magic thrives on curiosity and imagination. Why do we overlook the potential
magic in everyday objects like plates we eat in?
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/span>a-where-ness
A manual for exploring Prague through the senses
How often do we relate our cities with what we touch, smell, hear and taste? Even when we are looking,
how
much are we overlooking? For any curious explorer, this guidebook opens new ways of sensing the city
through embodied actions.
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/span>Spoonfed
an intimate, multi-sensory performance
3 spectators and 3 performers. Blindfolds, headphones and warm hands. We explore tenderness and care
through touch and simple earthly stories inspired by the mother figures in Germanic folktales. This is a
sensory adventure to inner discoveries with tactile objects, scents, stories and above all, imagination.
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/span>Fčil Espresso Bar
Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
Fčil Espresso Bar, a phenomenologically driven interior design project orchestrates relationships between body and space, motion and rest. Paying attention to senses and subjective experiences, it encourages embodied actions within its 20 sqm layout. The design centers on spatial harmony. It features a circular aperture, highlighting the barista and drawing visitors to the coffee counter. From playful stepped seating to displays of Moravian ceramics and motifs on coffee packaging, each element allows the body varied spatial encounters. It aims to create a distinct atmosphere using visually restorative materials, lights, and some extra humidity that is achieved through the house plants; all coming together for users to immerse their senses and breathe in the mix of rich, earthy, dark, woody, and roasted aromas.
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/span>Chromoculars
A sensory tool for a reconfigured visual experience
The Chromoculars critically question our visual experiences by allowing the wearer to see only color and light without any shape or form. It subverts the dominance of information culture where we have become used to perceiving and judging everything by sight and vision. The Chromoculars privilege experience over information. This sensory tool reconfigures our relationship with the visual world by creating a reduced, atmospheric and re-orientating visual experience. You are left wondering if you are actually seeing something or you merely think to see.
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/span>Water Sprite
Immersive installation, as part of Stories [from], [to] & [by] Faraway Lands
This installation is based on the Czech ballad ‘Vodnik’ by K.J Erben which tells the dark story of a girl who is abducted underwater in a lake by a water sprite, and the isolation and disconnect she feels from the human world above.
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/span>Treasure
Immersive installation, as part of Stories [from], [to] & [by] Faraway Lands
This installation is based on the Czech ballad ‘Poklad’ by K.J Erben. It tells the universal archetype of a mythical cave of riches. Spectators are invited to witness the journey and hear the story of a woman who finds an underground treasure and in her greed, loses her child in the bowels of the earth.
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/span>Belly of the Two Headed Beast
Dream capsule for napping
This installation invites an individual spectator to crawl inside it, lie down and dream. On the headphones, you listen to an audio narrative blending ASMR and mindfulness therapy. Within the belly's confines, you are relaxed yet aware and discover fragments of imagery that feel like a dreamscape. Time and fragrances merge: the memory of an infant’s crib mobile transforms into scents that are dancing on clockwork above you in this dark sanctaury.
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/span>A Midsummer Night's Dream
Immersive Installation
A scenographic installation for staging this popular comedy by Shakespeare where the contrasting worlds of Athens (representing order and rigidity) and the Forest (representing chaos and flexibility) collide. Designed for installing in a black box theatre, I interpret this collision from a contemporary standpoint: reality is a bubble in the larger whole of illusion. Getting pulled deeper in the illusion leads us to the Forest- a strange world inside devices which is full of sounds and noises. Puck is the maestro of this postmodern, post-internet orchestra.
