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April & May 2025
In cooperation with the residency and program venue Studio ALTA in Prague three artists are invited for a research residency in HELLERAU.
The theater maker and dramaturge Zuzana Šklíbová uses the residency to research on a new project. Two years ago Zuzana Šklíbová started learning sign language, which opened up a complex system of gestural communication and, above all, a fascinating way of inhabiting the world with hands. Sign language is a performative language. Language influences the way we perceive the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein said that the limits of one’s own language are the limits of one’s own world. Sign language is different from spoken language, it is more direct and honest. Facial expressions are part of the grammar – experiences are not just talked about, they are performed and experienced.
Within the residency Zuzana Šklíbová works with the choreographic potential of sign language and vibrations, while also connecting deaf and hearing performers and the different ways of perceiving and understanding the world.
In an open studio Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Zuzana Šklíbová shared insights in their research and artistic practice.
Biography
Photo: Michal Ureš
Zuzana Šklíbová studied directing and dramaturgy at the Institute for Alternative and Puppet Theater at DAMU and completed a residency at the Indonesian Art Institute in Yogyakarta. She works artistically with special groups, including prisoners in Bělušice Prison and young homeless people with the organization “Naděje”. Together with Fedir Kis, she develops theater without actors, including the productions “Postřehy a fikce” and “Power.point”. She also curates projects such as “Habibi Kiosk Prague” and ‘ARTakeaway’ to make contemporary art accessible to a wider audience and works as a dramaturge with the “#kulturunezastavis” initiative, among others.
