year: 2024
place: Prague
collaboration: Tereza Melková, Petrohradská collective
The performance was part of artist Tereza Melková's exhibition "𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓈𝓁𝑜𝓌𝓁𝓎" which she created during her residency in Petrohradská collective. Together we created a story about sewing, stitching, and knitting that focuses on healing, thinking slowly, regeneration, and vulnerability in connection with nature. While we were performing and reading the story, we stitched and knitted broken parts of our bodies with the audience, trying to restore dry, dead plant roots. The forest and its roots are metaphors for mutual support, care, and slow healing. We read fairytales where characters transform themselves into plants or trees - not as an escape or surrender, but as an act of emancipation and finding freedom and stability in connection with nature and ourselves.
installation: Tereza Melková
the narrative and design of bookcover: Savka Marenić
curator: Edita Malina (Štrajtová)
audio: Trevor Linde
photo: © Romana Kovacs
