Lucia Repašská and Michal Murin discuss the format of artistic performance, performativity, and whether they are still alive.

HOSTED BY: Dušan Barok

Lucia Repašská

The director and artistic director of the D'epog production platform. As an artist moving between the alternative and underground scenes, she collaborates with prominent figures of independent culture and deals with the phenomenon of actor training and experimental stage work on the basis of site-specificity, drama, intermedia and performance. Her academic practice at the JAMU in Brno includes activities at the Cabinet for Theatre and Drama Research, where she explores the limits of spectatorial perception in contemporary audiences in collaboration with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Brno University of Technology and the HumeLAB Laboratory for Experimental Humanities. She regularly presents the work of the D'epog ensemble and her own teaching and lecturing activities at conferences and theatre festivals at home and abroad. In 2015, she published the book Composition by Decomposition: Decompositional Principles in Performance Design.

Michal Murin

He realized his first performance in 1983, in addition to extensive solo projects and performances he was active in the Labyrint II group (1985-1986) and its successor, the Balvan movement theatre (1987-1993), Transmusic comp. (1989-2017) and Lengow & Hermes (1997-2003). He has also made joint performances with Jozef Cseres, Peter Kalmus, Milan Adamčiak, Ben Patterson, etc. He has attended butoh dance workshops with Min Tanaka, Living Theater, Rolf Dennemann, Seiji Shimoda and the Derevo company. He has worked in action art, conceptual, installation, in situ, multimedia, theatrical, body, radio art, sound art, lecture performance, musical theatre, phonic poetry performance, experimental theatre, flux events and pieces, photo and video performances. He has realised more than 350 events and performances at festivals and galleries in Europe, Japan, Australia and Taiwan. He has also published on the subject of performance (Art Action 1958-1998, editor of Profil 3/1993).

Support

The ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of the Tranzit Initiative. The project was also supported by public funding from the Slovak Arts Council.