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The 2025 Performance Art Festival – Bodies Craving to Believe will take place on Friday, November 7, from 7:00 p.m. in the unique industrial space of the Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague-Bubeneč (Čistírna1906). The program features six original performances exploring corporeality as a medium of emotional expression, hope, and queer self-determination, presented by artists Miriama Kardošová, Dominik Styk, eva susová, Aliza Orlan, CTM & Skjold Rambow, and Alex Franz Zehetbauer.

The program draws on queer experiences to explore corporeality as a source of transformation, presenting the body not as a mere tool of production but as an autonomous medium that deconstructs ingrained norms. Through movement, sound, desire, and bodily expressions (including taboo ones), the artists challenge rigid social expectations, opening space for authentic self-determination. The wastewater treatment plant serves as a metaphor for re-evaluating what is considered pure or impure. In an anxious world, the body becomes both an obstacle and a tool of faith—and art offers the possibility of a temporary awakening through embracing its full complexity.

Aliza Orlan opens the festival with her performance and installation thorns grow out of my body. This intimate work, inspired by fairy-tale and pop-culture images of femininity, explores queer bodily experience and the transcending of gender boundaries. Dominik Styk presents the absurd dance burlesque Pissed Prophet. Through personifications of a bladder and a fish, he connects human physiological processes with their anthropological interpretations. CTM & Skjold Rambow stage a dialogue between contemporary dance and cello in their project Bow, focusing on subtle shifts in posture and behavior. Miriama Kardošová, performing as Victoria Oren, premieres the piece Shake my hair over the dirt we sweat off, in which she confronts patriarchal expectations and stereotypes through dynamic, hysterical euphoria. Alex Franz Zehetbauer presents the Czech premiere of his queer stand-up show sixsixsix. In the role of a jester, he embodies repressed and uncontrollable aspects of corporeality. eva susova & Publik Universal Frxnd close the festival with a “queer assemblage”, combining breath, laughter, spoken word, and cello to explore the relationship between embodied knowledge and systems of power.