Real - ity? II/2025
Live performance | 2025 | Industra Brno, Czech Republic
WORK IN PROGRESS: 13/10/2024 (Industra Brno)
PREMIERE: 27/6/2025 (Industra Brno)
PERFORMANCES: 14/09/2025 | 16/01/2026 (Industra Brno)
Concept | Dance | Video | Sound | Lenka Půžová
Dramaturgical support | Barbora Liška
Sound design and support| Pratyay Raha
What is reality? How long does it last? What does it mean in everyone‘s subjectively distorted world? The solo opens up the theme of temporality and transience, the distortion of seeing the same thing through the eyes of different observers. Is our reality real, or do we live day by day transformed by the reference to the past, which still influences us, even though it is no longer a reality - or is it...?
Lenka was led to this theme by reflections on the transience of the moment, intensified by the dismal situation, whether in Ukraine, close to us, or in Palestine, farther away - but also by the obvious effects of climate change. Perceiving the lived experience of how human destiny can change from one second to the next, asking questions about the extent to which the individual is able to ‘shape’ his or her reality and the extent to which it is ‘given’ to them.
One of the goals of the project is to spread awareness about the current events in the Palestinian Territories and in this matter to support the Brno-based collective Against Dehumanization, which brings this topic into the public space through lectures, discussions and public meetings and also shares facts that are neglected by the public media.
The second goal is to promote an internal and external dialogue between individuals about what reality is for each of us, what it was and what it can and cannot be. About finding a way in seemingly hopeless situations. About finding meaning in the everyday. Reflecting on how our everyday reality is changing step by step due to the influences that overwhelm us as individuals and what can still be preserved from this reality so that it can continue to be reality.
The frequent moving between different cultural-spatial contexts and the re-return to the original, leading to a sense of alienation, loss and re-discovery of the self, was also a stimulus for dealing with this topic. The transfer of our own identity from the place we have just left to a future place, which is also a past place - a place that already bears the ‘imprint’ of our functioning from earlier times. Thanks to globalisation and the availability of travel and changing homes between different parts of the world, this phenomenon is relevant for many young people looking for their place in life.
The performance uses footage from the archive of the Al Jazeera media source, documenting the situation after 7.10.2023 in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.
The performance contains visually sensitive or potentially disturbing material.
PHOTO © Mila Vašíčková
