The Salon of Czech Scenography

The Salon of Czech Scenography is a showcase and a platform for shared reflection on scenography in its broadest sense and various contexts, traditionally organised by the Czech Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (ČOSDAT). It is a performative, multi-genre event and a report from the world of scenography, as well as an opportunity for dialogue on the forms and contexts of contemporary art.

In 2024, the Salon will take place in four different venues, with four different concepts and in collaboration with several partner organisations.

Performativity in Virtual Reality

The current relationship between humans and digital technologies is characterized by the close interplay of the virtual and corporeal. We live our lives with screens in our hands, on our desks or even directly on our heads, performing our physicality in and through the virtual. To tackle this interplay, we would like to bring together digital industries specialists, academics, and students in order to examine the topic of corporeal performativity in virtual environments. The workshop will delve into the virtual world of VRChat (2014) using both desktop and VR glasses. How does the interaction of physical and virtual differ when using various devices and how do we ourselves perceive this relationship? Is there even a difference between body performativity in the physical world and the digital one?

Josefov Summer School

Since 2017, the Performativity Research Centre has been organising the post-disciplinary Josefov Summer School in cooperation with the Department of Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno, the Institute of Polish Culture at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw, and since 2022 also with the Department of Theatre Studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

Terrains of Performance

Drawing up on the Performance/Performativity Workshop of 2019, a collective monograph, Terrains of Performance, was published that gathered twenty contributors from the arts, academia and other, hybrid spheres, which explores the theory and methodology of performance studies in the Czech milieu. The book was published by AMU Press – the Publishing House of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (NAMU) in 2022.

Performance/Performativity Workshop 2019

During an informal gathering in the House of Arts in Brno, scholars and practitioners from across the social sciences and humanities, as well as art professionals, presented their usage of the concepts of performance/performativity in their research and artistic work. Invited guests: Tereza Konývková, Cabinet for Theatre and Drama Research, Faculty of Theatre, JAMU in Brno; Alice Koubová, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences; Tomáš Ruller, Performance Studio, FaVU VUT Brno; Csaba Szaló, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno; Milan Zvada, Department of Dramaturgy, Directing and Theatre Studies, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica.