THE INFRA-ORDINARY LAB* Participatory performance, 8. – 18th June 2023 PQ Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space With Artist Tereza Stehlikova I am looking to build a small artistic team to help me realise a project/performance for Prague Quadrennial 2023. Those interested should ideally be based in or near Prague. Key words: participatory performance,... Continue Reading →
A Decade on: Our Play
2022 is a 10 year anniversary of my 4 Generations of Women project, which began one summer in South Bohemia. The whole project found its expression quite inconspicuously, through observation of the dynamic within the household, which suddenly and through various events, became occupied by women only. At the time I was preparing for an... Continue Reading →
Trespassing Wormwood
Steve and I have returned to our haunts after almost a year. It has been an interesting experience for me: having become something of an outsider in this previously local place, I have a feeling my perspective is shifting. It's hard to say what exactly it means in terms of my attention. But Wormwood has... Continue Reading →
4 Generations Women: December 2021
I planned our filming in my grandmother's apartment as is the Christmas tradition. Last year we have not been able to be together because of Covid restrictions and could only speak on Facetime. This year was different. My grandmother's apartment, right next to my parents', in the centre of Prague, brings out many childhood memories... Continue Reading →
Ophelia in Exile
A multi-media art installation by artist Tereza Stehlikova, exploring the importance of all our senses in giving meaning to our human experience. Its concept is inspired by the current pandemic and its impact on how we engage with others. The exhibition is one of the manifestations of an ongoing collaborative dialogue initiated by the Tangible... Continue Reading →
The Transparent Senses
How do we relate with our close ones when they are far, unreachable, and displayed to us through a flat screen designed to keep us safe, at distance? We see them, we talk to them, the information flow passes between us, courtesy of our advanced digital world. But how do we really keep in touch... Continue Reading →
Underwater Ophelia
We know that Ophelia drowned, she took a plunge into a large soup bowl, where wild flowers floated, making her departure from this world rather aesthetically pleasing. She has been washed out elsewhere, into a world I am trying to understand, for reasons I am also trying to understand. But before that, briefly, she appeared... Continue Reading →
State of Wormwood
This is the latest edit from the ongoing Wormwood project, in collaboration with poet Steven J Fowler. This film is a brief meditation on Wormwood in times of coronavirus... https://vimeo.com/404939186 Filmed in London on 31st March 2020, edited on 7th April 2020
Disappearing Worm Wood – film
Here is a trailer of feature length film I am currently finishing making, which will be screened at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on 30th January 2020. https://vimeo.com/376797600 Disappearing Worm Wood, 2020 A cinematic witnessing of London living through aberrant, awkward, ugly change, but mostly dying in the process. Filmed over the last half decade, exploring... Continue Reading →
Pirates of Worm Wood
Sunday 8th December 2019. The last time Steve and I meet before 2020 arrives. Today we have a business to do. No longer just observers, we want to leave a mark. Not out of sentimentality, but because we want to experience small taste of this violence to come, to understand in our own bodies what... Continue Reading →