Mimicry of Power Spaces is a participatory performance exploring how our bodies respond to familiar environments charged with invisible patterns of power — from hospitals, airports, and various waiting rooms to school desks and corporate meetings. Through a series of staged situations, spectators move through spaces filled with subtle pressures, expectations, and feelings of inadequacy. The narrative unfolds non-linearly, in the rhythm of automatically assumed behavior, confusion, and unclear instructions, revealing how easily we submit to spatial and social rules — and what possibilities of resistance and emancipation they conceal.
We draw on personal experiences of failure, loss of control, or the feeling of “not being enough,” which the body stores as unconscious patterns. How much do I need to know in order to trust? Through suggestion, association, signals, and projection, the work opens questions of trust, responsibility, and decision-making, inviting participants to interpret the situation on their own. In this way, spectators become part of a performative strategy that uncovers the fact that our bodies remember more than we think.
In Cooperation with Goethe Institute Prague (Markéta Pščolková) as part of the Unvollendet event series (Sept 15, 2025).
Co-work with Seiko Hihara, Kateřina Kuchtová, Jitka Ribárová, Barbora Trnková and Anna Chrtková
Photo: Michal Hančovský