KONTAMINÁCIE: UTOPIAN IMAGINARIUM: On Art Practices

Duration: 150 min.

 

IMAGINÁRIUM ON ART PRACTICES Eva Priečková / False Move (dancer, movement educator, PhD candidate) and Veronika Cyprichová / o.z. Drť HUBU! (PhD candidate in environmental geochemistry) are diving together into topics of reclaiming and re-thinking death, dying, decomposition, rotting, decay and degeneration in order to look again at regeneration and recreation. They invite ideas of mycelium cultivation and shared dance practice to explore commons between fungal intelligence and human intimate connection to explore environmental loss and grief.

 

Facilitated by Eva Priečková (SK)

Artists: Veronika Cyprichová (SK), Alicja Czyzel & Julia Krupa (PL), Baxi Osztrowski & Dima Omelchenko (PL,UKR), Aleks Borys (PL)

 

 

Eva Priečková (Berlin, Bratislava) is an interdependent dance artist, facilitator of the dance education Soft  Core. As Eva Priečková/False Move she organizes workshops, lectures and events that combine embodied movement experience with critical thinking about the body and relationships. She is interested in dance in various groups, ecosomatics, rituals of mourning and celebration,collective learning and re- learning, and dance outside the dance floor. For her, dance is an act of impossibility to tame bodies, of curiously noticing the world around us, of imagining, of awe or sensitive listening, and of everything that cannot be expressed in words. She is currently a PhD student at the JAMU in Brno.

Photo: Ján Skaličan

 

Veronika Cyprichová is founder member of collective Drž Hubu! 

Drž Hubu! brings together young professionals from different scientific fields with a common goal - to exploit the potential of mycology and mushroom cultivation as an innovative, ecological and renewable approach to the production of materials that can be used for a wide range of products from gastronomy, fashion and design to construction.

 

Alicja Czyczel (she/they) is a choreographer, artist, somatic educator, dancer, activist and facilitator dedicated to creating networks of care. She lives in the Bug River Landscape Park. She holds a master's degree in choreography from ICI-CCN Montpellier and a master's degree in cultural studies from Warsaw University. She is a graduate of the Experimental Choreography Course at the Centrum w Ruchu in Warsaw and the postgraduate studies "Collective Practices" at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She creates non-hierarchical educational processes where she shares her knowledge and intersectional approach in which the body is a site of resistance and deep listening. She is a member of feminist-queer communities, groups and collectives: the Common Space and squir. As a community organizer she is committed to building safer spaces based on cooperation, resource sharing and a culture of consent (“The Big Book of Scores”). She is author of black box choreographies (“LAGMA”), outdoor sound installations (“Becoming Permeated with the World”), site-specific performances (soundscape album “Toń”) and walks in the landscape. She performed in works of Daniel Kotowski, Anna Nowak, Joanna Piotrowska and Vincent Dupont. As a choreographer in the dramatic theaters, she co-created “The Hearing Trumpet,” dir. by Weronika Szczawińska, and “Antigone in Molenbeek,” dir. by Anna Smolar. She is the author of “Manifesto for the Ecologization of Independent Choreography and Performing Arts” (Puzyna's Dialogue).

https://cargocollective.com/alicjaczyczel

 

Julia Krupa (she/her)

Herbalist, artist and researcher combining herbalism with art practice. A PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw; leading the project “Herbal Path to Feminist Bio-Egalitarianism. Phytotherapeutic practices in Poland in the face of the climate crisis,” including ethnographic multispecies field research, interviews with herbalists and artistic research (since 2022). Student of postgraduate Gender Studies at Polish Academy of Science (2024/2025). Part of the doctoral project is the creation of the open access Herbal Herstory Archive. Graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting, diploma “Gatherer, Herbalist, Witch” presented at Lokal_30 gallery (2021). Winner of the grand prize in the art competition Initiatives Entry (2022). Published article “Fitomisteria. A Speculative Herbal Practice” with J. Soćko in Czas Kultury, 1/2023. Graduate of Rosi Braidotti’s “Posthuman” Utrecht Summer School (2024). Creator of the author's studio called Chwaściarnia (originally within the Autonomous Educational Space in Jazdów, since 2020), currently a member of the collective of the same name, practicing methods of interspecies communication with plants through collective artistic herbal practice.

www.juliakrupa.com.pl

 

Baxi Ostrowski is interdisciplinary choreographer & researcher, Dance maker based in Lisboa, Portugal. Connected with the Portuguese performance scene since 2017. Likes to develop speculative knowledge and contribute to collective practices. Since 2019 he is working in the field of arts & science which started with a research project “Babel. The resonance of language” and by now consists of laboratories, workshops, lecture performance and many other initiatives. He is very tall. But like, really, very tall.

Photo: Oleksandra Shershina

 

Dmytro Omelchenko is scientist at Charles University in Prague, born in Ukraine moved to Czechia several years before the R*ssia’s invasion on Crimea. A researcher specified in epigenetics, ecology and evolution as well as biodiversity, genetic diversity and DNA Sequencing. Moreover he is working as a scientific data visual designer. As he puts it: „I am a molecular biologist and currently my research interests are mostly interfering with evolutionary biology. In the art&science romance he sees a potential for alternative ways of communicating burning scientific issues”. He’s an art conscious human being and a punk cutie.   

 

Aleksandra Borys is a choreographer and artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of art, science, and ecology, creating a unique field of choreographic research that honors the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human life. Her artistic research invites dialogue between choreographic practice and the languages of the natural sciences, seeking ways to reconnect through movement, imagination, and presence. Across performance, installation, moving image, text, and sound, her practice opens spaces where movement becomes a tool for sensing, imagining, and reshaping the world.

Aleksandra is the founder and editor of Ruchome Teksty, an independent journal dedicated to choreographic research, and a member of the renowned Warsaw collective Centrum w Ruchu.

Borys’s work has been recognized across Europe, with nominations for the Prix Jardin d’Europe (2011), selections for the Aerowaves Priority List (2012), and the Polish Dance Platform (2012).
She has been a recipient of numerous residencies and scholarships, including study visit at Movement Research, Across Country Residency with BlakDance, LabVerde Residency in Amazon, Scholarship from Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Młoda Polska Scholarship, the Grażyna Kulczyk Research Scholarship, and international programs such as SPAZIO, DanceWeb and ImPact.

She holds an MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and a BA in Contemporary Dance from CODARTS, University of the Arts Rotterdam.

Photo: Viktoria Kaslik