20. 10. 2023 – 07. 12. 2023, opening 19. 10. 2023 7pm
The exhibition project Sinews: holding our sh*t together by Kathryn Fischer and Tereza Silon is the second contribution to the concept of radical happiness, which – as opposed to the Rotating Happiness project that focused on the individualized search for happiness – examines our own interpersonal interactions and their cultivation.
Through the use of textiles, giving a sense of safety and intimacy, the space of Gallery 35M2 is transformed into a place that encourages listening, sharing, and building closeness. The rooms are filled with echoes of the sound recordings – excerpts of a personal correspondence between Kathryn and Tereza – made over the course of several years. They share (with each other and now with us) intimate moments from their lives, often resulting in commentary about social issues such as various models of relationships, health, illness, aging, sexuality, gender, oppressive structures and power structures and many more. As simple an act as recording an audio track, allows them to practice and strengthen their friendship through listening and learning about the experiences of others.
It is only through understanding and strengthening of our interconnections and relationships with our environment that we can bring about any societal change that will ultimately result in an improvement of the affective micro-politics. The personal is political.
kathryn fischer aka mad kate (they/them) <www.alfabus.us > is an electronic producer, performance artist and writer who began working the berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfucking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world. often collaborating with other dancers, they composed sound for danilo andres “bicho raro” which premiered at sophiensaele tanztage and for nagi gianni “eclipses” at le centre d’art contemporain genève. combining sonics and the body, mad kate is currently and slowly working on s.w.e.a.t. sex.work.extraction.arts.theatrics, a podcast and a series of audio and performative works that explore the concept of performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body in labour of survival and labour of a/art. their most recent production “sweating together” with performer ambrita sunshine is a deep listening, somatic performance-discussion which premiered at alpha nova & galerie futura and was supported by musikfonds. mad kate is one half of the producer-performer duo hyenaz with producer adrienne teicher, who have toured immersive techno experiential shows based in consent and touch. hyenaz are deeply committed to the connection between movement, sound design and audio visual work. they are currently working on their project extraction, which focuses on accountability practices in music making, field recording and other art processes, with generous support from fonds darstellende künste. extraction is part of a body of ongoing work since 2015, a slow movement audio-visual project on bodies in motion and bodies in relation, entitled foreign bodies.
t𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒛𝒂 s𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒏 (ona/she/they/none&all) is an interdisciplinary artist working mostly as a performer, dancer, occasional facilitator, bodyworker, poet, writer and experimental herbalist with a foundation in clinical naturopathy and a deep interest in reframing healing as less weighed down and discriminatory happening(s). in the long term, they work with embodiment and physicality, feminist queer perspectives, socialnatural ecologies, collective body/ies and a desire to open spaces for generative intimacy/ies despite extractive systems we are forced to inhabit. after years spent working with and in collective settings, tereza is currently working on her first authorial performance with a team and continues as a collaborator with individual artists offering reflective dialogue and mutual learning and practical enhancement of the magic and as a guest in collectives and aligned institutions interested in nuanced conversations. reclaiming the old interest in voicework and bdsm/kink and the non-denominational awe combined with the research of the human, the vegetal and beyond, new pathways for expression are currently taking shape. she has worked with and has been hosted by display, ini prostor, studio alta, can serrat (esp), ways house (hu), outsideininsideout (de, cz), buchapotheke at grüntaler9 (de), y:events series/divadlo x10, kafkárna, the institute of anxiety, plato and others. in the past year she worked with kathryn fischer, marie čtveráčková, sofia rubinstein, victor and lucie králíková, centering both the queer and the folkloric approaches and grassroot origins and craving for more ´useless´ beauty and sensuousness, aware of clichés and some pitfalls, too. their ultimate desire at the moment is the possibility to play in generative ways – for all.
curator: Anežka Januschka Kořínková
photo: Peter Kolárčik
The project is realised with the financial support of the Capital City of Prague. Prague, the Prague 3 Municipal District, the Ministry of Culture and the State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic. Thank you for your support.
