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Petra Fornayová
January - February 2025
As part of the festival "Nebenan - Independent Art from Slovakia", director and performer Petra Fornayová was invited to HELLERAU for a residency. During this time, Petra Fornayová worked on her new project "7sec_We are all lichens" together with author Peter Šulej.
For the project, Petra Fornayová is inspired by mysterious multi-organisms such as lichens, plants and fungi and their system of horizontal, non-hierarchical decision-making. Where is the boundary between satisfying one's own needs and the needs of the group? In their performative research, Petra Fornayová and Peter Šulej are also interested in the boundaries of fiction and documentation and experiment with movement, text, video art and music.
On 8 February 2025, a joint Open Studio took place with Petra Fornayová and choreographer Eva Urbanová, where they shared their research processes.
Biography Petra Fornayová
Petra Fornayová is a director, performer and curator of contemporary dance and theatre. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava and studied dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and at the EDDC in Düsseldorf. She has produced more than 20 performances, which are regularly staged at home and abroad. Petra Fornayová founded and directs the international festival "Nu Dance Fest". She is the curator of the dance programme for the European Capital of Culture 2026 in Trenčín, a board member of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and a member of the editorial board of the contemporary art magazine VLNA.
Biography Peter Šulej
Peter Šulej is a poet and writer, author of ten volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and three novels. He has written numerous independent studies and articles on contemporary art and literature, texts for alternative music projects, radio plays and concepts for dance performances. He founded the publishing house Drewo a Srd and VLNA (Wave), a quarterly magazine for contemporary art and culture. He was co-founder and content director of the international poetry festival Ars Poetica and is co-founder of the international festival for contemporary literature Novotvar.
