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ＤＲ♢ＧΛ . ATꙄƎƆ . ∀⊥I⊥NƎᗡI // Diskuzní a performativní site specific (2. blok)
ＤＲ♢ＧΛ . ATꙄƎƆ . ∀⊥I⊥NƎᗡI // Discussion and performative site specific (2nd block)
Event by: Krajinou přílivu, Rekultur
Location: New Libeň synagogue, Ludmilina 4, Praha 8-Libeň - Praha 8
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About event
The specific discussion and performative site at the Synagogue on Palmovka is thematically based on the novel Morfium by the Polish author Szczepan Twardoch, based on the motifs of which a multi-genre production will be created in 2025 as part of the cooperation between the Rekultur platform and the Krajinou plilivu association.
The novel describes a slice of life. Warsaw's Konstantin Willemann, who doesn't want to be Polish or German. All he wants is a bottle of morphine and a life full of luxury, women, drugs and alcohol. However, this anti-hero collides with the reality of the first weeks of World War II. The heritage of his ancestors of different languages and nationalities, burdened by the need to choose a clear identity and at the same time the desire for a pre-war way of life acts like millstones on him.
Drug. Way. Identity. it is thus a kind of vanguard of the production, a research laboratory and perhaps also a horizon-widening tool in the form of a discussion with two erudite experts and scenic and musical fragments performed by Dana Marková and Václav Marhold.
This is the second discussion-performative block in the sequence has the thematic subtitle "Dependence on identity".
After a deeper dive into a specific geographical space in the first block, we would like to focus in the second block on human identity in its basic, one could even say animalistic form. Although it is undoubtedly influenced by social constructs, it is strongly linked to the individual, nature, intuition and direct action. This kind of identity, together with the national identity, is contained in the majority of the world's population, and these identities together often create a conflict, a contradiction that is most manifested in crisis situations. Does breaking out of national identity bring freedom? What is freedom in relation to identity? What role do territory, language, history and culture play in human self-perception? Can the personal, inner landscape be independent, or is there a stronger compulsion to articulate the self in relation to the environment? Where does the intense need to find a solid answer to the question "Who am I" come from? Together we will try to find possible answers.
GUESTS: sociologist from the Academy of Sciences Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D. and Slavist prof. M.Sc. et Mgr. Marcin Lukasz Filipowicz, Ph.D. The discussion is moderated by theater theoretician Jan Jiřík.
Note: From a linguistic Czech-Polish point of view, the word Droga has 2 meanings in the title of the program and in the future production. The Czech one refers to morphine and other addictions of the main (anti)hero of the novel Morfium. In Polish, on the other hand, the word drug means the path on which the person mentioned is walking. The bilingual title also refers to the complexity of our geopolitical region, in which conflicts and misunderstandings very easily occur, despite the fact that we are very close to each other in various aspects.
Director: Ewa Zembok
dramaturgy: Matouš Danzer
acting performers: Dana Marková, Václav Marhold, Lidya Emir
artistic solution: Jana Hauskrechtová, Alexandra Gnidiak and Jaro Repka
The novel describes a slice of life. Warsaw's Konstantin Willemann, who doesn't want to be Polish or German. All he wants is a bottle of morphine and a life full of luxury, women, drugs and alcohol. However, this anti-hero collides with the reality of the first weeks of World War II. The heritage of his ancestors of different languages and nationalities, burdened by the need to choose a clear identity and at the same time the desire for a pre-war way of life acts like millstones on him.
Drug. Way. Identity. it is thus a kind of vanguard of the production, a research laboratory and perhaps also a horizon-widening tool in the form of a discussion with two erudite experts and scenic and musical fragments performed by Dana Marková and Václav Marhold.
This is the second discussion-performative block in the sequence has the thematic subtitle "Dependence on identity".
After a deeper dive into a specific geographical space in the first block, we would like to focus in the second block on human identity in its basic, one could even say animalistic form. Although it is undoubtedly influenced by social constructs, it is strongly linked to the individual, nature, intuition and direct action. This kind of identity, together with the national identity, is contained in the majority of the world's population, and these identities together often create a conflict, a contradiction that is most manifested in crisis situations. Does breaking out of national identity bring freedom? What is freedom in relation to identity? What role do territory, language, history and culture play in human self-perception? Can the personal, inner landscape be independent, or is there a stronger compulsion to articulate the self in relation to the environment? Where does the intense need to find a solid answer to the question "Who am I" come from? Together we will try to find possible answers.
GUESTS: sociologist from the Academy of Sciences Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D. and Slavist prof. M.Sc. et Mgr. Marcin Lukasz Filipowicz, Ph.D. The discussion is moderated by theater theoretician Jan Jiřík.
Note: From a linguistic Czech-Polish point of view, the word Droga has 2 meanings in the title of the program and in the future production. The Czech one refers to morphine and other addictions of the main (anti)hero of the novel Morfium. In Polish, on the other hand, the word drug means the path on which the person mentioned is walking. The bilingual title also refers to the complexity of our geopolitical region, in which conflicts and misunderstandings very easily occur, despite the fact that we are very close to each other in various aspects.
Director: Ewa Zembok
dramaturgy: Matouš Danzer
acting performers: Dana Marková, Václav Marhold, Lidya Emir
artistic solution: Jana Hauskrechtová, Alexandra Gnidiak and Jaro Repka