year: 2024
place: Prague
concept,script and direction: Savka Marenić
costumes: Savka Marenić
video: Nika Datiaschvili
sound design: Jonáš Richter, Jonáš Balcar, Nikola Janković
performers: Nikola Janković, Gabriela Veselá, Milena Raičević
photos: Adéla Vosičková
collaboration: Umění pro město, GHMP
A performative intervention unfolds around the Vyšehrad metro station and the Nusle Bridge, gradually revealing the valley’s hidden non-places while rediscovering its presence. Nusle Valley becomes the setting for an immersive audio walk — a space for listening and re-perceiving the environment. The Nusle Bridge, together with its unseen in-between spaces, transforms into a site of shared imagination.
Whisper in the Valley explores the performative qualities of public transit non-spaces, offering an alternative perspective on space. Through speculative narrative, the project highlights gestures of care and fosters new connections to a place deeply shaped by the physical and urban impact of the Nusle Bridge, as well as by its psychological and social implications. While the bridge connects the city, it is also associated with personal loss and ongoing transformation; its history is linked to numerous suicides and broader social changes that have left a lasting imprint on the valley.
The walk is enriched by original music, field recordings, and costumes that expand the narrative and stimulate the audience’s imagination and interpretation of the story.
The installation also contributes to the development of an upcoming book that blends collective imagination, performative events, narrative, and ecological awareness. Through personal, collective, and more-than-human perspectives, the book invites readers, participants, and residents to engage with overlooked and vulnerable spaces in the Nusle Valley, demonstrating how small gestures, imagination, and shared creation can transform the ways we perceive these places.
made by: Nika Datiashvili
