Spirit Level
Spirit Level is a ”self-service” performance for all visitors. You can examine it as a participant and as an observer as well. If you decide to engage actively, you would listen to the voice in the earphones, that will guide you through the simple balance exercise that involves interaction with objects. If you decide to take the observer role, it would offer you a completely different kind of experience.
I explore the relationship between natural movement and choreography, and the specific spatial installations determine the scope of this research. Within their limits, I create different situations through the techniques of contemporary dance, theater, and performance and actively involve the viewer. I map the boundaries of how far the viewer is willing to be drawn into the manipulative play of normative instructions conflicting with meditative moments and how his or her tolerance is bent with the knowledge of the other participants' compliance.
For the NoD Gallery I have prepared a four-language installation where English, German, Italian and French channels are always quietly over-translated in Czech. The exhibition Prag_Kassel: Hybrid Inconvenience (NoD, Prague, 2018) focused on the topic of the important historical event of the Munich Agreement (1938) and elaborated on the possibilities of its symbolic potential in the language of contemporary visual art.
